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In a NewsReal Blog
op-ed, Kathy Shaidle deconstructs Daily Mail reporter Jane Fryer's hit piece on Gov. Palin and the Tea Party and charges Fryar with making the whole thing up:
About three paragraphs in, my B.S. Detector went off. Eventually, I had to unscrew the back of the thing and pull the batteries out, just so I could read her whole story.
And what a story Ms Fryer has filed. A tale of angry, elderly “Tea Baggers” muttering about Obama being a secret communist Muslim, while passing around plates of homemade cookies between (ew!) prayers:
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The “Africa” story is a third hand rumor spread by unnamed McCain staffers not known for their affection for Palin.
And Ms Fryer is evidently the last sentient being who doesn’t “get” that the “Russia” remark was the punchline of a SNL sketch and not an authentic Palin quote.
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We’re subsequently treated to a typical British slam at Palin for committing the venal sin of getting rich (something it is much harder to do in England)...
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I’d love to trace Fryer’s mobile phone coordinates. This on-the-spot report reads like it was filed from deep in the wilds of the Red Door spa on 691 Fifth Avenue at 54th Street, with a heavily underlined and now soggy copy of In Cold Blood used to help with “local color.”
Read the full Kathy Shaidle opinion piece
here.
Update: Here is David Riddick's
take from the UK.
- JP
