Arkansas Blog

Sure. If it sounds good it must be news.

21st Century Journalism, well, Media anyway, you can't call it journalism by any historic definition.

We are all about to get a crash course in reality. I never thought about a connection between the depression and yellow journalism. But, it makes sense, sounds good. Must have happened.

Terrible journalism? True - same kind that still allows the idea that Obama is a terrorist Muslim to flourish and allows others to believe we found those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

HOWEVER, I would bet all I own that she DIDN'T know that Africa was a continent until this controversy. I would bet all I own that these guys did her a huge favor by concocting this hoax - much like the favor done to GWB when the Dan Rather letter from GWB's superior officer in the guard turned out to be recently typed and therefore a hoax even when the substance was 100% true. Palin is embarrassingly under educated and this will now allow her to roll on down the highway - wah-wah-wah- like that hubcap after the car wreck - laughing about the audacity of those who think he dumb.

ArkBlog:

Maybe I misread the NY Times piece, but I took it as this guy claimed to be the source of the leak, then it turned out that his claiming to be the source leak was the hoax.

The fact still exists that someone, an unnamed source from McCain's camp, said that Palin didn't know about Africa being a continent. Am I wrong here?

ARK. BLOG: I don't know. On closer reading, I'm not sure.

I sent the link to my husband and he said the same thing, newspaperboy -- and after I read it the second time, that's how I interpreted it, too.

"The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin - not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony."

This is from the Associated Press.

Here's the key sentence:
"And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt..."

The claim of credit, not the anecdote itself, is the hoax.

The NY Times story on this is rather confusing if you don't read carefully you miss it. I think the AP did a much better job explaining this than the Times.

Here is the link to the AP story, which, to me, is pretty clear and concise in saying that the unnamed source's information about Palin and Africa is still true.

All Eisenstadt did was SAY he was the unidentified person. THAT was the hoax here. The NY Times needs to go back to the drawing board with their story.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/081112/world/palin_hoax_1

Okay-yuh.

I take back everything I said about her being dumb as a box of hammers because she doesn't know Africa is a continent.

But I stand by all the other reasons.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq-eeWow_WU

Give it up.

Palin wasn't qualified to be president but she isn't that dumb either. The people buying the story are the same folks who fill their friends inboxes with forward emails promising a free computer if it is sent to enough people.

The GOP toads refuse to admit they got caught in a battle of ideas and ideals and actually lost. It is much easier to scapegoat Palin with the Africa fantasy and claims of Huckleberry like clothing grabs because then they don't have to examine why they really lost.

Fox News being taken as gospel someplace other than among dittoheads. Wow the new standard is the one I want to believe is the credible source. Pure craziness.

You're all missing the Arkansas connection in all this, the one and only DAVID friggin SCHUSTER. He apparently believes there is this McCain policy adviser who in actuality is just a hoax or prankster. So, it appears former KATV man David Schuster has been shystered.

Who cares if the woman misses one continent.

So long as she keeps guarding our Alaskan borders and keeping an eye on
Russia, and those things, that happen each day by the way we have to do
that up there. She's got my Demo stamp of approval.

Y'betcha.

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When God cracks a door or window for her, as she has stated, she will just push right through that opening. Africa, Russia, who cares - she goes where wise men and women fear to tread. Just hope she brings the right clothing - borrowed, bought or stolen!

OK.....now lets clear up that thing where Al Gore said he invented the Internet and the part where the Clintons shit all over the White House on their way out and the crap about Obama not showing a real birth certificate.

I'm mad as hell at the Republican Party, but I'm equally mad at the MSM who decided to put profit above truth a few years ago. When the major news organizations cannot be trusted to report the news....we're in a deep hole we can't crawl out of. Mistakes I can do cause I makes lots of them. But lies and bullshit are gonna be the end of this country.

Look at the bank accounts of the major news organizations....no one including EXXON made as much money during this long long campaign season. They made lies the truth and they made dead men walk ie Huck's chances at the White House which the MSM lied about till they got his last dime.

We need change in our government. We damn sure need change in the MSM.

I read about this on a national blog the other day. That blog and this one are the reason I get most of my news outside the MSM/corporate media. I know if something is flat out wrong or merely confusing, someone in the comments will question it and/or post the truth before the MSM will.

I mostly read/watch MSNBC, NYT, WSJ, and the like for editorials. Any "news" I get from them I check it myself. Sad that it's come to that. Back when I had to walk uphill to get to school and back, it wasn't this way.