Palin Called Obama "Sambo"

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Registered: 10-13-2008
Palin Called Obama "Sambo"
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Tue, 10-14-2008 - 4:25pm

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”


This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.


According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.


“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North Pole.


Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”


Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are common, everyday chatter for Palin.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 2:37pm
We will agree to disagree.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 2:39pm
Again doesn't matter what I know about a journalist.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 2:54pm

Reporters - even opinion show reporters - are supposed to do due diligence on stories which rely upon related accounts, before airing them. They have a duty to the public. No one expects every (or ANY) reporter to know everything about every subject that comes up....but that's why, when a particular issue is in the news, you're supposed to either do some investigating yourself (if you're the reporter) or turn it over to your research team. Otherwise, any idiot with enough media-savvy will be able to manipulate the news enough to get people to have him or her on their shows to spout whatever nonsense (s)he has to say. It's ridiculous. Reporters and commentators are supposed to be skeptical by nature, and to verify things before running them. Newspapers can be and have been sued for libel from printing things (or TV stations from showing things) which are verifiably false, especially if - with a small amount of work - they would have been able to discover that it was false.

The "lesbians carrying pink Glocks" nonsense is so far off the scale into "say WHAT???" territory that even a notorious blowhard and hack like O'Reilly should have had such a statement trip his BS detector. There is also - almost always - a pre-interview with invited guests which takes place before the show: they tell the guest what they're wanting to talk about, and what questions or areas they might ask the guest about - sometimes they even give the guest the list of questions in advance, if it's not an adversarial interview (which this one clearly was NOT). And they get a general sense of what the guest might be going to touch on in his/her answers. That way, there's no embarrassing surprises, dead air or obvious gaffes. Such things make the interviewer look bad, that's one of the main reasons they do it - because they want to make sure they don't look like idiots, live.

That's not to say that there aren't going to STILL be surprises, sometimes - there always are with live TV. For example, it's certainly POSSIBLE O'Reilly had not heard the "pink Glocks" bit in the pre-interview, and wasn't expecting it. However, that's where the "investigative journalist BS detector" kicks in, if not that "that's simply false" reaction. I've seen O'Reilly do it too many times before, such as when John Edwards said "200,000 homeless people per night sleeping outside" or whatever it was. He didn't let that by for a minute, and in fact went back and did research on it, and was only too happy to give his interpretation of the facts in that case - wrong though they were. No, if O'Reilly had had any doubts about the "pink machine guns" story, he'd have had no qualms in voicing them. Even earlier in the segment, there were outrageous claims being made which he let slide. And beyond that, he had to actually greenlight this segment to begin with. Even if you want me to imagine that O'Reilly knew NOTHING about what Wheeler was going to say and was COMPLETELY blindsided and unprepared for ALL of it, there's the inconvenient fact that O'Reilly had to sit down earlier in the day (or even earlier than that), and - in a story-meeting - say "yeah, lesbian gangs terrorizing, etc..... let's go with that." In order to do that, he either had to have a) believed it (and therefore didn't do any research into whether it was actually true) or b) didn't care, because it fit an agenda he was pushing. If he believed it was false or questionable, you'd have heard a very different tone out of O'Reilly than the one you heard and saw in that video. O'Reilly's not exactly a wilting violet when he thinks someone's not telling him the truth. Isn't his show self-titled "the No-Spin Zone?"

Lastly, what did you think about the OTHER item I posted up about O'Reilly having lied directly and repeatedly about the words to that song? I put that one up because the words to the song are what they are....it's not subject to "interpretation" or "what-if," it's a fact. And, while one might argue that the FIRST time O'Reilly got it wrong, it was simple lazy fact-checking, and he didn't KNOW the facts....but every time after that? No. Outright lie.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 2:55pm
I doubt seriously that uuroseygirl is much surprised to learn that some conservatives refuse to change their minds on issues about which they've already made them up, no matter what else comes to light.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 3:14pm
Right backatcha!

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 3:16pm

Right back at me? You mean you, too, doubt that uuroseygirl is surprised to learn that certain conservatives are reluctant to change their minds, once they've made them up?

Uh....OK, I guess.

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 3:28pm
No.

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Registered: 12-07-2006
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 3:47pm

Like I said, I'm not going to debate this nonsense.

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Registered: 10-14-2008
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 4:02pm
Not really getting the words to a song incorrect, so much as...well...you must have missed this one.

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Registered: 12-07-2006
Wed, 10-15-2008 - 7:38pm

Oh, that BIG LIE!

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