Couric Diminishes Gov. Palin October 6, 2008

Washington Prowler
Couric Diminishes Gov. Palin
By The Prowler
Published 9/26/2008 12:08:10 AM

CBS New anchor Katie Couric ordered staff to drop all references to “Governor” or “Gov.” from her interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. When a staff member pointed out that in other venues, Couric and CBS News had referred to Governor Palin’s opponent, Joe Biden, using his title of “Senator” or the abbreviation, Couric, according to a CBS News editorial aide, sought approval from CBS News management to drop the “Governor” reference during her broadcast interview with Palin that began on Wednesday night.

“It’s not true,” said another CBS News source. “We treat everyone the same.”

But, in fact, that’s not the case: as late as September 22, CBS News and Couric — even on the CBS website — used Biden’s honorific. Here is an excerpt from the transcript of a Couric interview with “Sen.” Biden:

Katie Couric: How is it preparing for the debates?

Sen. Joe Biden: Well, it’s kind of hard to prepare because I don’t know what she thinks. There’s been no — I don’t know a lot about her, so I have to assume for purposes of the debate that she agrees with John on everything.

Now compare that the transcript of the “Palin” interview:

Couric: Why do you say that? Why are they waiting for John McCain and not Barack Obama?

Palin: He’s got the track record of the leadership qualities and the pragmatism that’s needed at a crisis time like this.

In fact, at no point during the broadcast interview does Couric refer to the GOP vice presidential nominee as “Governor.”

Couric is not the only member of the broadcast news corps who has sought to diminish Palin’s professional position, though she may be the most high profile. Producers and editorial staff at both NBC and ABC report that fellow staffers have openly ridiculed Palin, her professional and personal background and her family during production meetings, in the editing bays during video editing for nightly news stories, and while covering Palin at political events.

Ultimately the higher ups at CBS News agreed, saying that wherever possible, the reference to “Governor” should be struck from graphics, scripts and published transcripts. In fact, based on perusal of the CBS website, between video and print, there is only one reference to Palin as Governor, and that is buried in a subhead on the splash page of the interview transcript.Technorati Tags: Couric, Gov. Sarah Palin, Biden

Obama’s unanswered questions … October 6, 2008

On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on “This Week” with George Stephanapoulos.  Obama on talking about his religion said, “My Muslim faith”.  When questioned, “he make a mistake”.  Some mistake!  I saw this interview with Obama and heard him say “My Muslim faith” and then George corrected him and said, “You mean Christian faith.”  I had wondered why no one had picked up on this and said something about it before now.  Read below:
 
To All My Friends, this is long, but very important, please take the time to read it..  This election has me very worried.  So many things to consider.  About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since than.  I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another.  I must say this drives my husband crazy.  But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with.  About six months ago, I started thinking “where did the money come from for Obama”.  I have four daughters who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight.  We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.

I started looking into Obama’s life.   Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California .  He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. “Barry” (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan .  During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a “round the world” trip.  Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan  where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family.  My question - Where did he get the money for this trip?  Neither I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college.  When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York .  It is at this time he  wants everyone to call him Barack – not Barry.  Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ?  It’s not cheap! to say the least.  Where did he get money for tuition?  Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year.  Why Chicago?  Why not New York?  He was already living in New York . 
 
By “chance”  he met Antoin “Tony” Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago .  Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year.  Rezko, was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association”.  About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School .  Do you have any idea what tuition is for  Harvard Law School ?  Where did he get the money for Law School ?  More student loans?  After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down.  But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.  Guess what?  They represented “Rezar” which Rezko’s firm.  Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago .  In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with “seed money”  for his U.S. Senate race.  In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (less than asking price).  With ALL those Student Loans – Where did he get the money for the property?  On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price.  The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3..5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased.  Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.
 
Now, we have Obama running for President.  Valerie Jarrett, was Michele Obama’s boss.  She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first.  Where was Jarrett born?  Ready for this?  Shiraz , Iran!  Do we see a pattern here?  Or am I going crazy?
 
On May 10, 2008 The Times reported, Robert Malley advisor to Obama was “sacked” after the press found out he was having regular contacts with “Hamas”, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran .  This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq , he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will “Take care of things”.  
 
Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that were born in Pakistan ?  They are in charge of all those “small” Internet campaign contribution for Obama.  Where is that money coming from?  The poor and middle class in this country?  Or could it be from the Middle East ?  
 
And the final bit of news.  On 2 0September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on “This Week” with George Stephanapoulos.  Obama on talking about his religion said, “My Muslim faith”.  When questioned, “he make a mistake”.  Some mistake!
 
All of the above information I got on line.  If you would like to check it – Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times – Obama visited Pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times – September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.
Now the BIG question – If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our “intelligent” members of the press been reporting this?

A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear – “Beware of the enemy from within”!!!

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Maybe McCain does want to win: He finally attacks Obama on Fannie/Freddie October 6, 2008

Maybe McCain does want to win: He finally attacks Obama on

Fannie/Freddie

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 6, 2008 02:13 PM

Last week, the McCain campaign said it would be too complicated and politically incorrect to blast Obama for his Fannie/Freddie complicity.

They didn’t want to go there.

Looks like common sense mugged the Maverick.

Better late, than never — via Ed Morrissey, here’s McCain’s prepared text for an event later today:

Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes?

This crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people who could not afford them. Bad mortgages were being backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was only a matter of time before a contagion of unsustainable debt began to spread. This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.

Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.

Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, “a good idea.” Well, Senator Obama, that “good idea” has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them.

Did he ever talk to the executives at Fannie and Freddie about these reckless loans? Did he ever discuss with them the stronger oversight I proposed? If Senator Obama is such a champion of financial regulation, why didn’t he support these regulations that could have prevented this crisis in the first place? He won’t tell you, but you deserve an answer.

Don’t go wobbly now, McCain.

Don’t stop.

Take your own advice: Stand up and fight.

Pass it on:

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October 6, 2008

Obama Youth Regiment

Republicans don’t have this kind of thing. Who are t…