Thompson Claims Palin ‘Hasn’t Been On The Cover Of Time Magazine,’ Even Though She Has
Thompson Claims Palin ‘Hasn’t Been On The Cover Of Time Magazine,’ Even Though She Has
Today at a McCain-Palin rally in Virginia, former senator Fred Thompson mocked the media for requesting more access to Palin. Using a common McCain campaign talking point, Thompson said that reporters were just upset that John McCain didn’t pick a well-known media favorite:
East Coast media says, “but we don’t know her.” She hasn’t been on the talk shows on Sunday. She hasn’t been on the cover of [T]ime magazine. And I say to them, “you may not know her but whose fault is that?” She hadn’t been hiding anywhere.
Perhaps Thompson hasn’t seen the Sept. 15 issue of Time magazine:
Or the past two issues of Newsweek:
Despite Thompson’s remarks, it’s not the media’s “fault” that they don’t “know her.” The McCain campaign has repeatedly refused to let Palin answer questions from reporters, saying that the press has to show her “deference.”
As recently as yesterday, reporters were allowed on Palin’s plane, but campaign aides demanded that all flight conversations would be off the record, conditions about which at least one reporter objected. For her part, Palin “greeted the media and they chatted about who had been to Alaska, but little else was said.”
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A below-average intellect and a dishonest power hungry ‘barracuda’ are all this twit is ; she belongs on no magazine cover , and her 15 minutes are now up……….
September 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pmTo agree with Fred Thompson, I say put her on every news program (LIVE) and let every real journalist interview her, investigate and report on her. The more light shone on her, the more the myth will melt. Sarah, expose yourself now (to the press, that is.)
September 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pmSo the new meme is “truth doesn’t matter, even if there is tons of proof.” I get it.
The 527’s have begun. I’ve gotten e-mails from Democracy for America (Howard Dean’s group) and moveon.org today asking for money to run ads.
My big question is where is the rest of the Democratic party on these smears? I haven’t heard anything at all from Pelosi, Boxer, Clinton (either one) or even Howard Dean.
The GOP has stolen the news cycle for almost two weeks now. Not that stealing is something new.
If you can, contribute to one of the 527’s. If Team Obama is “above the smears” we need to get tough using other vehicles.
PEACE
September 10th, 2008 at 2:50 pmSomeone needs to go back to acting on law and order instead of trying to have an opinion.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pmWhat an elitist celebrity.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pmBefore Ms. Palin, has ANY candidate announced they were running for a national office and then refused to take questions for two weeks? It’s surreal. And that makes it hard to predict what the reaction will be.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pmI quit reading Time and Newsweek long ago, especially when they hired reich-wing hacks to write for them.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pm“…you may not know her but whose fault is that?”
Well, before McSame picked her as his VP nominee why would anyone care about a governor from a small (in terms of population) state that is totally disconnected from the lower 48? Who was the last governor of AK? Who was the first?
Alaska is a beautiful place, with wonderful people. But why anyone would have cared about Palin before McSame picked her is beyond me.
Contrast all that w/ Rove’s nasty comment about the governor of Virginia!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pmIt’s about time for Hillary to kick her ass.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pmThe picture of her holding the shotgun is funny. No serious hunter would hold their weapon in such a manner. The oil from her hands would stain the gun-barrel. Yup, a real outdoorswoman!
September 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pmHaving a guy who has worked as a lobbyist, senator and television actor complain about “east coast” anything is of course hilarious. Isn’t it about time for opposite day to end?
September 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pmPete, before Ms. Palin, has any other candidate repeated the exact same stump speech for two weeks as his/her only contact with the public and reporters?
Team McStain has circled the dog sleds, and Palin won’t see the light of the cameras, without a preapproved script and full editing rights… at all.
PEACE
September 10th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWell, he has a point. The cover is newer than her designation as VP candidate.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pmbarfly Says:
The picture of her holding the shotgun is funny. No serious hunter would hold their weapon in such a manner. The oil from her hands would stain the gun-barrel. Yup, a real outdoorswoman!
At least it was unloaded so she couldn’t shoot her feet off. =P
September 10th, 2008 at 2:59 pmThe McIIIrd campaign’s refusal to allow her to field questions just brings up the bigger question.
Why is she not qualified to answer people’s questions? Is she shy, stupid, or a combination of both.
This alone disqualifies her from ‘being ready on day one’.
Period. No family issue, no nothing else.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pmI was yesterday in a nearby food store waiting to check out,and I saw at least 3 magazines with Sarah Palin’s picture on the cover of them.
Come on Freddy !!!, where have you been? !!..update your written speeches before you go to rallies again.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pmThompson Claims Palin ‘Hasn’t Been On The Cover Of Time Magazine,’ Even Though She Has.
It doesn’t matter. Republican talking heads spew forth the desired message and the Republican herd lap it up. You can beat your head against the wall trying to get these people to acknowlege the truth and all you’ll get is a banged up head.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
September 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pmWhere’s the picture from above and behind her at the convention, showing her reading the pre-written BushitCo line from a teleprompter?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:02 pmIsn’t Fred Thompson one of those out of touch hollywood elitists that the republican party likes to whine about?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pmApparently, McNumbNuts “knew her” some time ago but he buckled under to the right wing of his party and selected her anyway.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/10/103448/087/539/593399
September 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pmWe can expect more of this. Whats Palins cure for our economical woes they dont want to discuss? The people have been left holding the debt to reassure foreign investors after Wall Street sucked the profits out of Fannie and Freddie.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pmDon;t worry fred, there’s a big story coming out in the national enquirer soon that will introduce palin to your base.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pmAwww, now, you big meanies!! Show Sarah some deference!!!!!
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September 10th, 2008 at 3:08 pmHas the national enquirer story hit the stores yet?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pmA rock star like Sarah should be on the cover of The Rolling Stone. Either that, or a hunting magazine centerfold…
September 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pmHere’s a link to the Nat. Enquirer.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/_palin_family_shockers_what_sarahs_really_hiding/celebrity/65407
If it was good enough for Clinton and Edwards, it’s good enough for palin.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pmIsn’t Thompson the celebrity actor that was ‘bashing’ Obama for being a celebrity? The guy who more people know from TV than anything? ‘I’m not a descent guy, but I play one on TV, so trust me.’
All this bs that the republicans are shoveling works, they have the last two prez elections as proof. They will continue to sling the sht until they lose by a landslide, so it won’t be this year and it won’t be for a long time. They’re going to get their ‘permanent majority’ by hook and by crook. The general elections are becoming an excersize in futility and looking more and more like the stereotypical communist ‘choice’.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pmCheck out the eyes on the youngest Palin spawn. You tell me her father isn’t Luicfer…
September 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pmThe local baseball team is on Reichradio so I hear a bit of the enemy’s discussions. A lot of the callers are rural conservatives who would, one would think, be Sarah’s base. They do not like her.
Some talk about her “screechy” voice. Some don’t think women belong in office. Some have even picked up on her lying.
But, the majority think she’s a phony. They are not impressed by her trophy room or “helicopter hunting”. Her “frontier woman” act is not going over with the locals and I have a feeling that most practical people, around the country, will feel the same. And that shot-gun pose isn’t winning any fans at the NRA!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pmIt’s true. One picture IS worth a thousand words.
the Newsweek cover featuring both really SHOULD be titled:
Gidget & the Geezer.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:16 pmFart dust..or..do the research?
I think Fred can answer that.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:18 pmThere are guys out there who will vote for McCain/Palin, just becasue they think Sarah Palin is good looking. That’s it. No other reason or thought process to it. She’s a babe, so they are voting for the ticket. Pathetic as that is, I’ve actually talked to others who are voting that way!
McElderly/Barbie McGunrack 2008!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pmTrue believers don’t need anything more than the 14th reading of her Re-speech to Nowhere. If they are Republicans they really don’t need to know her…the women because she’s a woman and for the men…well at least they have someone to look at other than McSame.
What a sad state for America. Another week is being wasted when McCain/Palin should be answering hard questions. We aren’t exactly on top of the world any more.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:23 pmI humbly submit for your approval the following expression:
“Dumber than a podium of Fred Thompsons”
Should anyone use it, use it wisely or people could get hurt.
You’re welcome.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:28 pmSo when are the sordid details of Sarah’s extramarital affair with Toddster’s bidnetz parter going to be forthcoming?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pmSomewhere in Tennessee a seniors retirement home is missing one of it’s residents.
Just saying . . .
September 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pmWhen these two Siamese twins are separated in the next couple of days, they will both suffer for it.
No one will turn out to hear McNumbNuts drone on.
The reporters will finally get a shot at asking some hard questions of the Pentacostal Princess of Wasilla.
The “Power Rangers” effect will be long gone when these two dolts can no longer touch their rings together. I am looking forward to that.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:30 pmGramps Thompson needs more nap time. lol
September 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pmOn magazine covers but refuses to answer questions about who she really is. Go figure the party that wants to keep us safe from terrorists want us to elect a woman who has not experience and was a PTA president to take a position one heartbeat away from replacing the oldest man to ever take the WH. The republicans will do anything to fool the American people into electing whatever crook, liar, and fool to put forward. ENOUGH!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pmWasn’t McCain whining about not getting enough attention from the press?
September 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pmSo they just put her on the cover and this is proof of what? Thomson is lying? You people are a joke. The polls making “the One” and his minions grasp at straws, its pathetic. I’ll bet Palin handles herself better than Obama did on the factor, when challanged he would reverse himself and agree with O’Reilly, change you can believe in, lol. Keep your focus on Palin, while we take this election, that was yours to lose, away from you. Obama really started to lose it when he burn Hillary, but it’s not like you libs think women count anyway.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pmCopano dude, could you try that post in English please?
Dumbfck. Go blow the dog again, he’s lonely.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:04 pmCopano_Texian Says:
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Obama really started to lose it when he burn Hillary, but it’s not like you libs think women count anyway.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And sexist , misogynist , philandering adulterers like McDepends “count” women ?
Yeah , the number of them they sleep with ……….
You’re a fu(king moron……….
September 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pmsatirev Says:
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And the larger question today on the street, is “what is this woman hiding?”. She hid her pregnancy even from her family for 7 months so we know she’s good at chicanery and deceit.
I’d suspect that the hullabaloo erupting in Wasilla these days and at the archives of the Anchorage Daily News regarding her missing emails (on a private server doing “executive business” and cc’ing Todd on it all) is what’s she afraid of.
I’ve seen a pdf flying around about her gov.sarah@yahoo.com account which outlines all of the emails she’s hiding. Good detective work of the people, reporters. At least there are still reporters out there who take the work of getting the truth to the people seriously….unlike our whoring mainstreamers.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
The MSM is aptly named …….
The McCainStream Media ……….
September 10th, 2008 at 4:09 pmYou may want to make sure you can use those magazine covers, I’m pretty sure they are copyrighted, and I know that kind of thing is important to you guys, lol. May need to check if you have permission to post alot of this material on here, you guys don’t want to break any laws do you?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pmCopano_Texian Says: something completely unintelligible
September 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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The words appear to be in English, but when strung together, they make no sense at all. And I don’t have my troll translator with me.
Can we have a better grade of troll, please?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pmThank you, Troll. You serve to remind us daily that there’s still 20% of the electorate who can not be reasoned with, only outnumbered. I like our chances and you improve them every time you utter more of your nonsense.
FACTS MATTER!
September 10th, 2008 at 4:14 pmCopana who are you? If you live in Texas you should realize what another 4 years of bush/mccain would do to America. The borders are wide open with drug wars and Americans being kidnapped, Border Agents doing their job being jailed. Environment and educational systems were totally bankrupted under bush and a surplus turned into a deficit with his policies. Sound familiar as to what bush/cheney have done ? Unless you are one of bush’s handout loyalists sucking off this administration you are ashamed bush occupies a corner of this state.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:19 pmPalin takes the heat off of lackluster mccain, he just stands there, hands folded. If enough copanos likes use racism in voting we can watch mccain leaving the Presidency for health reasons and palin being the frontwoman while the same group of corrupt crap totally destroys what is left of America.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:23 pmIf Palin was governor of Wisconsin she’d be paying people to run over deer with their car and give her the antlers for $50. She’s quite the sportsman alright.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:25 pmBeg to differ with you bush may not have done the dirty work of demanding loyalty oaths but he loves that stuff. You think he didn’t push Powell out ? What about Christi Whitman the EPA Director. Anyone with an bit of integrity couldn’t stand the stink of bush/cheney.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:26 pmHe can’t, Palin ordered aerial shooting of all the dogs.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:29 pmAnd just which one of the tv Pastors was it that claimed the gays and lesbians were to blame for 9/11 ? Cristianity at its best I guess.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:32 pmWe know who benefited from 9/11 now don’t we ? Do the names Haliburton/cheney Blackwater/bush come to mind ? Or how about KBR who electricuted 11 servicemen in the shower with cheap, faulty wiring. And what about the bad water for our military, the list goes on and on.
When has a government ever hurt its own people as much as this one has ?
Palin is buying favors at $3295 a crack for every man, woman and child payments go out today. Alaska has the highest rate of incest/rape and yet victims have to pay for their own rape test kit. Pushed through by the Christian Palin. Alaska is a welfare state so guess if you want that for your state vote for palin.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pmI so frequently have to teach this. Try to make your points concise. Quality writing is a skill which requires practice
September 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pmStill don’t get it troll? Try this one. Consider only the two top guys, not their running mates, friends, partners, or acquaintances.
Flippy McSpin had an affair that led to his divorce and subsequent wedding to the woman he had said affair with. It was not an amicable divorce and, according to many reports, his own children still despise the way he treated their mother.
Sen. Obama is, by ALL accounts, happily and stably married to the same woman he first married.
Question: Which candidate exhibits the American Family Values we hold so dear?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pmGood afternoon dbadass. While it’s true that writing is a skill unto itself, it’s futile to try if one is incapable of reading for content. Our new breed of McTroll seems sadly lacking in that skill.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pmGeez, McIIIrd cheated on his wife for multiple YEARS before HE divorced HER.
Jackass. Go Muck a Foose.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pmIs there a remote disable of CTL+C ~ CTL-V available?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pmPlus. Is it really wise to dig up the Rev. Wright stuff when the GOP’s VP candidate belongs to a church, and related organizations, that promote everything from “Spiritual cleansing of homosexuals” to seceding from the Union? And how about the stuff about preparing Alaska as a “Rapture refuge”?
I will concede that Rev. Wright is a bit wacky but…
September 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pmhi pete. raptor migration is well under way in these parts. hope you have cool stuff happening too.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:51 pmCopano_Texian Says
September 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
You may want to make sure you can use those magazine covers, I’m pretty sure they are copyrighted, and I know that kind of thing is important to you guys, lol. May need to check if you have permission to post alot of this material on here, you guys don’t want to break any laws do you?
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If I were you, I wouldn’t expend any of my precious brainpower worrying about these magazine covers. If TP had a habit of violating copyright law, we would be seeing WAY more “corrected” items than we do (and we see them only rarely). Besides, TIME and Newsweek (and most magazines) don’t generally have a problem with their covers being used, as long as they aren’t misrepresented. After all, it’s free advertising for them.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pmAwww ur hurtin my feelins, ill blame the teechers unions ur liburals luv to protect…lol…Pete says: sably married…lol teach me to wright as gooder as u pete, i neeed help
September 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pm*
you tell me – is it fixed?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601080901,00.html
especially, compared to these?
mcCHUMP http://www.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601080908,00.html
September 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pmsarah http://www.time.com/time/magazine
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If I were McCain, I’d be quite scared. I think it very possible that should he win, Rove and all would kill him so they could comletely control their puppet Palin. Dang.
TexasLady – be safe! We can but hope that that the Texas troll lives in Ike’s path and is too dumb to seek shelter.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pmNow that is some really poor writing. Still I am curious why the teachers, the media, the entertainment industry, the unions and on and on are “liberal”. Most be that those liberals are so much better at so many things. The market has spoken
September 10th, 2008 at 5:10 pmYep db. Fall is falling. Alas, the few frogs left are done singing for another year.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:11 pmOr maybe he can’t read
September 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pmMayhaps the troll loves him some real big waves right close up with some fiercey winds in his fayce.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pmCopano_Texian Says:
Awww ur hurtin my feelins, ill blame the teechers unions ur liburals luv to protect…lol…Pete says: sably married…lol teach me to wright as gooder as u pete, i neeed help
September 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Followed by my post, in it’s entirety.
pete Says:
Still don’t get it troll? Try this one. Consider only the two top guys, not their running mates, friends, partners, or acquaintances.
Flippy McSpin had an affair that led to his divorce and subsequent wedding to the woman he had said affair with. It was not an amicable divorce and, according to many reports, his own children still despise the way he treated their mother.
Sen. Obama is, by ALL accounts, happily and stably married to the same woman he first married.
Question: Which candidate exhibits the American Family Values we hold so dear?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Umm. Were you trying to make a point, besides the fact that you don’t recognize the English word stably, stupid troll? And, once again, which of these men is a better example of American Family Values?
Idiot!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:20 pmWhatsa matta Texitroll? Let me guess, are you one of the those who supports the theory that IQ and latitude exist in an inverse proportion?
September 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pmalright pete you have already made em look ridiculous. There is no need to embarass them further by running up that scoreboard. I sort of doubt it but do you have any real scrubs you can put in to be sort of polite?
btw:
September 10th, 2008 at 5:36 pmwe have frost advisories up for tonight.
Nah. They make themselves look ridiculous, db. And I reserve “polite” for people who display at least a few virtues.
BTW, we had our first frost warning, for the suburbs, night before last. Time to get used to the new paradigm in heating costs. Ouch!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:42 pmBobwurst Says:
“Check out the eyes on the youngest Palin spawn. You tell me her father isn’t Luicfer…”
Mother, Mary and Joseph! It’s the antichrist!
September 10th, 2008 at 5:45 pmDon’t let her get a hold of a crucifix.
and just WHERE is McCain’s flag pin??
Why does he hate the flag?
September 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pmCopano_Texian Says:
So they just put her on the cover and this is proof of what? Thomson is lying? You people are a joke. The polls making “the One” and his minions grasp at straws, its pathetic. I’ll bet Palin handles herself better than Obama did on the factor, when challanged he would reverse himself and agree with O’Reilly, change you can believe in, lol. Keep your focus on Palin, while we take this election, that was yours to lose, away from you. Obama really started to lose it when he burn Hillary, but it’s not like you libs think women count anyway.
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You hivemind morons of the Limborg are disgustingly stupid. How ignorant do you have to be to whine that what Thompson says is PATENTLY FALSE. We get that stupid brainwashed fools like you WANT to be lied to and couldnt care LESS if what they are told has any connection to reality as long as you like what is said. IT is a symptom of how ignorant you are. Sure the GOP has been in charge the last 8 years EXCLUSIVELY for six of those 8 but what we REALLY need to do is RETURN the GOP to power so we can get change. Even your abject stupidity and complete brainwashed ignorance even your worship of conformity cant really make that make sense. You aer simply a liar and a fool. That makes you the PERFECT O’falafel demographic.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:35 pmCopano_Texian Says:
Something mindbogglingly stupid. Really he is capable of nothing else. Back away from the kool-aid moron, it kills brain cells and it is plain you have none to spare.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:38 pmMcCon’s stretching his neck to look tall next to Pullin. A little more John and you’ll reach the top of the “N”. Then, McCon might look Presidential. ”
McCon/Pullin” Fabric ‘08
September 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pmSo the McCain campaign has muzzled their pitbull.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:26 amOn one side of the picture you have “Palin-tol-ogy” and on the other you “Paleotology” than comprises the study of fossiles and old old men.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:46 am