Newsbusters: ABC Finds Palin Korea Mix-up Newsworthy

But Obama's gaffes, not so much
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NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein observes that Obama's "57 states" gaffe and his ignorance about what language is spoken in Austria were not deemed by ABC to be "news":

But let Sarah Palin momentarily mention North rather than South Korea as our ally, and ABC finds it newsworthy. Check out the video after the jump, containing the news scroll from today's Good Morning America.

By the way, as Ben Smith has pointed out at Politico, Palin actually correctly identified South Korea as our ally earlier in her Glenn Beck radio interview.

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Speaking of Obama's many gaffes (or not, if you're a lamestream leftist media stooge)...


More commentary by Kristinn, Ian Lazaran and Doug Ross.

- JP

Scarborough 'Blames' Sarah Palin For O'Donnell Win

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Conservative Lite drinker Joe Scarborough again showed why he's no better than his fellow Palin-hatin' MSDNC fellow travellers this morning, as NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein reports:

Joe Scarborough believes Christine O'Donnell's win has cost Republicans the Delaware Senate seat and their best shot at a Senate majority. And the Morning Joe host made no bones about singling out the person he considers responsible: "I blame Sarah Palin," said Scarborough bluntly on today's show.

Scarborough's comment came not long after Morning Joe aired a clip of Karl Rove's scalding comments about O'Donnell, which I noted here last night, in which among other things the former Bush adviser declared that O'Donnell "doesn't evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that voters are looking for."

Said Scarborough: "I agree with Karl Rove."

On second thought, Moaning Joe's crazy colleagues at MSDNC are actually better than he is. At least they don't pretend to be "conservative."

More at NewsBusters.

- JP

What was GMA weekend host insinuating?

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What was a lamestream media morning show moron insinuating with her lead-in to a segment on how Sarah Palin is standing by a candidate she endorsed in the midst of unsupported allegations against the candidate? Was the mediot dissing the candidate, Gov. Palin, or both? Was she implying that there may be something to the allegations of adultery made against Nikki Haley, who is running for the GOP nomination for governor of South Carolina? Or by expressing shock that Sarah Palin, a champion of family values, would come to Haley's defense, was the lamestreamer insinuating that the governor herself is guilty of something salacious?

Bianna Golodryga, co-host of ABC's Good Morning America weekend edition, was obviously attempting to cast dispersion on Nikki Haley, Sarah Palin, or both women Sunday morning with her loaded tease of an upcoming segment. NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein reports and comments:

BIANNA GOLODRYGA: "If this political year has taught us anything, it's to expect the unexpected. Take the South Carolina governor's race for example. Allegations of extramarital affairs are flying against the leading GOP candidate there. And Sarah Palin of all people has rushed to her defense."

"Of all people"? So Golodryga is ostensibly surprised by Palin's support of Haley. Why? Haley has categorically denied the allegations. By professing shock that family-values Palin would come to Haley's defense, it certainly sounds as if Bianna is implying there's substance to the accusations. If Golodryga's got proof, other than the allegations of men with possible political axes to grind, she should produce it. Otherwise, Golodryga should lay off the invidious insinuations.

If Golodryga was not implying something about Nikki Haley, then she was clearly implying something about Gov. Palin. Her use of the innuendo here manages to smear both conservative women, which was probably the point all along. ABC is a smear machine. This is how our corrupt media operates -- with lies, distortion and innuendo. When Sarah Palin says you can't trust the lamestream media, she's right as rain.

Update: Golodryga, as it turns out, is White House OMB Director Peter Orszag’s fiancee, and she appears to already be playing for Team Obama. So her not-so-subtle little dig, it seems, was aimed at Gov. Palin.

h/t: Travis McGee

- JP

MSNBC/Olbermann: The Worst Hubris in the World

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Excellent observation by Mark Finkelstein:

Note to Olbermann: when calling someone else an "idiot-woman," avoid misspelling "you're" as "your" in your show graphics...

BTW, why should Sarah Palin, who works for Fox News, appear on MSNBC? Doing so would reduce her Nielson ratings by 300 percent.

Silly liberals...

- JP

There MSDNC goes again: Norah O'Donnell patronizes Palin Supporters

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Via Newsbusters Senior Contributor Mark Finkelstein:

Norah O'Donnell just can't stop condescending to supporters of Sarah Palin. Appearing on Morning Joe today, the MSNBC correspondent rehashed a line she has used before: that fans of Sarah Palin are just too darn busy to know what's happening in the world. According to O'Donnell, Sarah supporters don't have "30 minutes to an hour to read the newspaper."

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So Palin supporters are uninformed, Norah? Unlike those Obama voters, you mean? You know, the ones that a Howard Stern staffer interviewed? The folks who expressed support for Obama on the basis of his supposed positions which were in fact those of John McCain? The people who liked Obama when told he was: pro-life, opposed to stem cell research and had picked . . . Sarah Palin as his running mate? How much time do you figure those folks spend poring over the New York Times, Norah?

As we said here, with the unequalled degree of ignorance some Obama voters demonstrated, those who are dissing Palin supporters should really not want to go there.

- JP