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*Main Topics: *Troopergate Investigation, Palin Returns to Alaska,
Sad/Lonely Solo McCain, 'Third Term' Promotion
Summary of Shift:
The Obama "lipstick on a pig" comments continue to generate
discussion now that Obama has hit back, saying enough of the silly politics.
John McCain and Sarah Palin had their last joint campaign event together
yesterday in Virginia, their largest crowds yet, before Palin returns to
Alaska to speak at her son Track's troop deployment to Iraq. Palin was both
praised for drawing huge excitement and large crowds to McCain's events in
the past week, with many speculating that it'll be quiet for McCain on the
road without her. Some bloggers and commentators have even suggested that
the ticket should be flipped, as Palin is the real star. But with new
celebrity comes judgment and investigations into Palin's record continue to
draw concerns over her attempts to ban library books, her flip flop on the
bridge to nowhere, and a state investigation into the firing of her Public
Safety Commissioner over personal reasons.
Today is the seventh anniversary of the September 11th terrorist
attacks, with McCain, Obama, Bush, and others giving speeches, reflecting,
and paying their respects with the rest of the nation and the world on this
day that changed America and Republican political strategy forever. Paul
Begala was on the Today show promoting his new book and movie, "Third Term".
It was revealed that President Bush signed off on secret raids on Taliban
militants and Osama Bin Laden within Pakistan several months ago, without
the government of Pakistan's approval. Investigators at the Department of
the Interior say 19 government workers accepted gifts, rigged contracts, and
engaged in illicit sex with energy company executives. Failed to collect in
$10 billion dollars in oil revenues last year. FEMA blamed for wasting at
least $1 billion dollars in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Ike
approaches the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm.
Highlights:
1. ABC: GMA Investigates Sarah Palin's Troopergate Scandal
2. ABC: Army of Bush Aides Working With Palin In Preparation of Solo
Campaigning/Interviews
3. ABC: Sarah Palin Using Son's Iraq Deployment for Sympathy Points,
While Raising Safety Concerns Doing So
4. CNN: As Palin Arrives Returns to Alaska She is Greeted By Cheering
Fans and Screaming Mad Protesters
5. CNN: McCain Getting Drowned Out By Obama Protesters Without Palin,
Expect More of McCain and Palin Campaigning Together
6. CNN: Earmark Checking: Palin Camp Guilty of Big Bucks and Connections
to Scandalous Lobbyists
7. CNN: Fact Checking Palin on Bridge to Nowhere and Library Book
Banning, McCain on Fuel Efficiency Standards
8. NBC: Begala Interviewed About 'Third Term'; Questioned About Lipstick
Controversy, Poor Poll Numbers
9. FNC: Blogger Comments On Palin Bashing, Her Popularity Domination
Over McCain, and Wish for Flipped Ticket
Highlights, No YouTubes:
1. CBS - CRAIG FERGUSON: Why are we talking about animals in cosmetics?
Why is John McCain hanging around while his vice presidential candidate is
out campaigning to be President?
2. ABC - GEORGE STEPHANOPOULIS: They come from the Quinnipiac polling
service, a very reliable polling service, and they show a close race. It is
likely to go down to the wire again. John McCain ahead by seven points in
Florida, 50 to 43. But Barack Obama ahead in the other two big swing
battleground states, 49 to 44 in Ohio, remember George Bush one that state
four years ago, and 48 to 45 in Pennsylvania. That's a little closer than
Barack Obama might like, but remember if you go back to 1960 no one has won
the presidency without winning two of these three big battleground states.
And Obama ahead in two of them right now. […] If you're going to pay
attention to one state this year, it's got to be Ohio. No Republican has
ever won the presidency without winning Ohio, and again, we remember four
years ago it was so close there. George W. Bush winning by only about
100,000 votes. Both campaigns are targeting now, the Obama campaign has
ramped up their turnout operation, particularly in the big cities and on
college campuses. But the McCain campaign hopes the pick of Sarah Palin will
energize their voters, particularly in Southern Ohio.
3. FNC - CHRIS KOFINIS: I think part of it had to do with that people
weren't really happy with John McCain as a candidate. And I think, to that
extent, the McCain campaign did a smart thing by choosing someone that was
going to excite their base.
Clips:
Headline #1
*GMA Investigates Sarah Palin's Troopergate Scandal* (ABC 09/11/08 7:30am)
BRIAN ROSS: This is the most serious cloud hanging over Sarah Palin, a state
investigation into whether she lied or abused her power as governor when she
fired the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner two months ago. And it has
turned into a major issue in the state. This April, at a conference at
Alaska's Epidemic Problem of Domestic and Sexual Violence, Governor Sarah
Palin had nothing but praise for the work of Public Safety Commissioner Walt
Monigan.
SARAH PALIN: An indication of our commitment is the participation here of
my, of our Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monigan's
participation here, and all of his hard work. And I want to publicly thank
him.
ROSS: Three months later, she fired Monigan, supposedly because he was not a
team player on budget issues. But Monigan spent the day Wednesday testifying
before an Alaska investigator, saying that the real reason for his abrupt
dismissal was that he refused to fire the Governor's ex-brother-in-law from
the state police, after a messy divorce. Monigan declined to comment as he
left. Governor Palin calls Monigan's claims outrageous. *But Monigan told
ABC News he would provide the committee with proof to back up his claim that
she abused her office to settle a personal score.*
SEN. HOLLIS FRENCH: She had two conversations with Walt Monigan, and had
sent him some emails. So the idea that there had been no contact and no
pressure doesn't stand up.
ROSS: The case is the talk of Alaska. And Monigan is now picking up support
in his battle against Palin from groups involved in protecting women from
domestic and sexual abuse, like those at this Anchorage shelter. It was a
cause Monigan had embraced.
GERAN TARR: When she let go of Commissioner Monigan, the women's lobby and
our members were disappointed.
ROSS: Some women's groups say the Governor, unlike Monigan, has failed to
take decisive action to support programs to protect women like Maxxie,
nearly beaten to death by her husband. According to the FBI, Alaska is first
in the nation per capita for rapes and second for murder of women by men.
TARR: We have not seen Governor Palin do anything that would indicate this
is a priority.
ROSS: The Governor's former press secretary says Palin does care about the
issue deeply.
MEGAN STAPLETON: One of the Governor's number one priorities since first
taking office has always been to attack domestic violence in the state of
Alaska.
ROSS: But at the Domestic Violence Conference in April, Palin said the proof
of her concern for the issue was her Public Safety Commissioner, Walt
Monigan.
PALIN: Not just talking about it, but finding the solutions and plugging
them in, and I want to publicly thank Walt for having his heart in the right
place in his efforts too.
ROSS: The man she would later fire. The state committee wants to issue a
final report in the next few weeks. *The McCain campaign has launched an
attack on its credibility, saying for or five of its members are democrats
supporting Barack Obama. They fail to tell us that the other ten members of
the committee are Republicans.*
Headline #2
*Army of Bush Aides Working With Palin In Preparation of Solo
Campaigning/Interviews* (ABC 09/11/08 7:15am)
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULIS: […] There is some danger in John McCain in the silly
season as well, as he throws out these attacks day after day they may put
Obama on the defensive, *but at least the Obama campaign hopes that they
also may start to chip away at John McCain's maverick record and his
reputation for integrity.*
ROBIN ROBERTS: Obama wants to focus on the economy, but as you know, the
focus has been on Governor Sarah Palin. She has a big interview today in
Alaska with our Charlie Gibson. And her popularity no doubt is soaring, but
this is the first time she's had to answer questions about her record. What
does she need to do today?
*STEPHANOPOULIS: Well you know, she's been cramming for this as well.
There's an army of former Bush aides who are out there working with her
every free moment between her stump speeches.* She's got to show that she
can handle the questions, show that she's ready for this job as vice
president, and show familiarity with the issues. We'll see how it goes the
next couple of days.
Headline #3
*Sarah Palin Using Son's Iraq Deployment for Sympathy Points, While Raising
Safety Concerns Doing So* (ABC 09/11/08 7:07am)
ROBIN ROBERTS: Governor Palin is in Alaska to attend a deployment ceremony
for her son, private first class Track Palin, who's army infantry unit is
heading to Iraq. In this election, the issue of the Iraq War a deeply
personal one for both the Republican and the Democratic tickets.
JOHN BERMAN: *Sarah Palin won't just be attending that, she'll be giving a
speech and it will be open to television cameras. It's such a drastic
difference from the way her own running mate, John McCain, handled his own
sons deployment.* And it's part of what makes this campaign so fascinating,
three out of the four candidates have sons headed to Iraq or have been there
already. Private first class Track Palin, Captain Beau Biden, both headed to
Iraq in the next few weeks. Marine Lance Corporal Jimmy McCain has been
there already. Jimmy's six month deployment came and went with hardly any
public notice. Why? Because John McCain never mentioned it on the stump.
Literally, never. That stands in stark contrast to what Governor Sarah Palin
told more than 40 million viewers about her son during the Republican
convention last week.
SARAH PALIN: One week from tomorrow, September 11th, he'll deploy to Iraq
with the army infantry in the service of his country.
JOHN NAGL: It is the mark of an enthusiastic mother, I think, and a very
proud mother. *But it does impose, conceivably, some risks on the soldier
and the unit.*
BERMAN: There are no military restrictions about what family members can say
about their kids. *But many candidates say that they don't want to
politicize service, and have held back on specifics like deployment dates
because of safety concerns.*
NAGL: There is always a risk when you talk about troop movements. There is a
risk that terrorists could try to take advantage of the fact that they know
when flights are leaving.
BERMAN: As for the children themselves, there are some rules. They're not
supposed to discuss the details of their missions. Which explains Beau
Biden's coded speech at the Democratic convention. Military officials and
analysts tell us that Palin and Biden's kids will not get special treatment
while overseas, but the one thing that will almost definitely change that is
when someone wins the election. They say in this day in age the military
would almost definitely have to take into account the child of a president,
or a vice president in service.
Headline #4
*As Palin Arrives Returns to Alaska She is Greeted By Cheering Fans and
Screaming Mad Protesters* (CNN 09/11/08 7:57am)
JESSICA YELLIN: An excited crowd of several thousand chanted Sarah! As the
Governor's plane touched down to the soundtrack from the movie Top Gun. *Palin
gave the standard stump speech we've heard her give for the last week, but
with a few tweaks. […] Palin also skipped her lines boasting that she killed
that bridge to nowhere, a topic that stirred some controversy around the
nation and especially here in Alaska.* Now folks we talked to who were there
to support her say they like her because she's down to earth, she's a
fighter. They think she took on oil companies on behalf of the little
guy. *Protesters
outside though were carrying signs that said, "Sarah is a good old boy" and
"Folks in Alaska know Sarah's not qualified to be V.P." So there's even some
tension in Alaska over Palin's selection to be John McCain's running
mate.*Now Palin is in town to see her son attend a deployment ceremony
today. He
will ship off to Iraq in the next few weeks as part of the first striker
brigade. All we can say about what he'll do there is that he will serve in
northern Iraq.
Headline #5
*McCain Getting Drowned Out By Obama Protesters Without Palin, Expect More
of McCain and Palin Campaigning Together* (CNN 09/11/08 8:08am)
DANA BASH: This morning you heard the fact that both candidates are
suspending campaigning. […] *He will actually have a pretty low key campaign
week for the rest of the week. Why? Because they are pretty happy to leave
the spotlight to Sarah Palin.* Their final post-convention rally together
and their biggest yet. With Sarah Palin, John McCain is well aware he's
ignited a surprising fire for his campaign, and he's doing everything he can
to stoke it. […] *But McCain's advisers know Palin's record isn't what's
making her a sensation. It's her persona, and they are scrambling to protect
it. Assembling a new team of lawyers, researchers, and press aids to try to
shape the onslaught of coverage. About everything from earmarks she fought
for and against, to rampant rumor she banned books.* Part of protecting
Palin's image is trying to sully Barack Obama's, like with this new ad. […]
Obama's campaign denied deploying anyone to dig up dirt. After their morning
rally, McCain parted ways with Palin to campaign alone for the first time
since picking her at a small round table with women at a Philadelphia diner.
What a difference without Palin. Chanting outside, not for Sarah, but for
Obama. McCain's statement to reporters, drowned out. He was finally forced
to stop talking when his supporters got in the mix. All he could do was end
with a joke. Now the stark difference between McCain's events with and
without Palin is not lost on McCain's advisors. In fact, they say that when
Palin returns from Alaska this weekend, she will finally have her first solo
campaign trip to some battleground states. *But they say to look for McCain
and Palin together again soon. In fact, they say to look to them together a
lot more between now and November then most running mates usually are.*
Headline #6
*Earmark Checking: Palin Camp Guilty of Big Bucks and Connections to
Scandalous Lobbyists* (CNN 09/11/08 6:45am)
BRIAN TODD: As all four candidates get into the back and forth of who can
really change things in this town, we found that these four really run the
gambit for genuine reform credentials, to old lying and power politics. The
hot debate now, who will really change the way Washington does business.
Both campaigns taking aim at an old staple of machine politics, those
sometimes wasteful funding requests made by lawmakers, often for their home
districts. John McCain's been a crusader against so called earmarks and he
says his opponents asked for almost a billion dollars in pork barrel
projects for his state in just less than four years in the US Senate.
According to the non-partisan watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense,
Barack Obama has asked for nearly a billion dollars in earmarks during his
Senate term. But the group gives him credit for disclosing his requests
which most members of Congress don't do. Obama's made no requests for the
next fiscal year, and even when he was asking for earmarks, he was far from
the worst offender.
STEVE ELLIS: Just to put it into perspective, he got 98 million dollars
worth of earmarks in fiscal year 2008. Senator Clinton got more than 300
million dollars in earmarks, and Senator Cochran, republican ranking member
of the Appropriations Committee got more than 800 million dollars in
earmarks.
TODD: Obama's running mate doesn't come close to that. But Joe Biden also
has never disclosed what he's asked for, until this year. Biden's office
says he's requesting about 300 million dollars. The Obama campaign points
out that while *McCain has never asked for earmarks, his running mate hardly
has room to talk. […] According to state records and Taxpayers for Common
Sense, Sarah Palin has asked for about $450 million dollars in Federal money
since she became Governor.* But she also gets some credit.
ELLIS: As Governor, she has by all records, started to reduce the number of
earmark requests. So, it's a downward trajectory by our analysis. But still,
significant earmark requests.
TODD: And Palin got into the earmarking early, before she even became
Governor. According to state records and Tax Payers for Common Sense, she
helped get about $27 million dollars, some of which went to the small
Alaskan town of Wasilla during her second term as mayor there, from 1998 to
2002. The watchdog groups says one reason that Palin was able to get all
that for her small town, she hired a lobbying firm run from a former staffer
for Senator Ted Stevens, one of Washington's most legendary earmarkers.
Headline #7
*Fact Checking Palin on Bridge to Nowhere and Library Book Banning, McCain
on Fuel Efficiency Standards* (CNN 09/11/08 7:14am)
JOHN ROBERTS: How bad have the false statements gotten on both sides of the
political fence here?
BILL ADAIR: Boy it's really kicked into overdrive, especially since the
conventions. That really seemed to be a turning point. We're at the point
now where both campaigns are actually using our claims to justify opposing
views. So, our truth-o-meter's been overheating lately.
*ROBERTS: […] Sarah Palin, one of the big issues here is this bridge to
nowhere, whether she supported it or didn't support it. […] We also heard
her on the campaign trail during the gubernatorial campaign in 2006,
apparently supporting the bridge.* So where does the truth-o-meter come
down on this idea of her being the person who killed the bridge?
ADAIR: Well, we gave it initially a, we gave the t.v. ad a "barely true,"
because it's important to recognize she initially supported the bridge when
she was a candidate, and then opposed it. It's not like she boldly stood up
and said, Congress I don't want the money, it was only after there was
tremendous public opposition to it. So we gave the claim from the t.v. ad
that she stopped it a "barely true", and on our flip-o-meter we gave her a
full flop for flip-flopping on the issue.
ROBERTS: Because she had, as we said, during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign
at least given it tacit support. She said that she wouldn't stand in the way
of it, and then after she became governor said she was going to refuse the
money for the bridge, though they still accepted the money, didn't they?
ADAIR: They did, and that's why we gave the ad a "barely true", because it's
not like she stood up and said, no Congress, we won't take this, this is
pork. *She was very much in the culture of Alaska, which is accepting tons
of public money for infrastructure like roads and things. So it's not the
way it's been portrayed.*
ROBERTS: A couple of things we got to get to quickly is, while there's an
email circulating that Governor Palin tried to ban books from the Wasilla
Public Library as mayor. Among those books, Huckleberry Finn and Harry
Potter. What did you have to find about that?
ADAIR: We gave this one a "pants on fire" on our truth-o-meter, which is the
lowest rating. This list is a complete fabrication, as you mentioned, the
Harry Potter books were actually published after the incident occurred where
she inquired about banning some books. So this one gets a "pants on fire".
ROBERTS: Ok, so she did not try to ban books as mayor of Wasilla. […] Obama
has been attacking McCain's energy records, saying that McCain has said, no
to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investment in renewable
energy, no to renewable fuels. True or untrue?
ADAIR: Specifically, the claim about fuel efficiency standards, we gave that
one a "barely true", because McCain actually was a leader in trying to raise
fuel efficiency standards and the Obama campaign has been sort of cherry
picking there, picking votes where McCain voted against it, but ignoring the
fact that he was a leader in another bill. So that one gets a "barely true".
And I need to just point out something, you mentioned earlier about her not
trying to ban books. *That list is a fake, there are conflicting claims
about what actually happened on the book banning. […] There was definitely a
point where Mayor Palin raised the possibility of banning some books.*
Headline #8
*Begala Interviewed About 'Third Term'; Questioned About Lipstick
Controversy, Poor Poll Numbers *(NBC 09/11/08 7:05am)
MEREDITH VIEIRA: Paul Begala is a former strategist for Bill Clinton and an
author. His latest book is a harsh critique of Senator John McCain. It's
called Third Term: Why George W. Bush Loves John McCain. Paul, good morning
to you.
PAUL BEGALA: Good morning. It's a love story.
VIEIRA: Yeah, exactly. We'll get into the love story in a second. You were
in the war room in 1992 trying to get Bill Clinton elected to the
Presidency. You know a lot about controversies. This lipstick on a pig, any
long term repercussions or is this just another diversion.
BEGALA: Well it's a tactical diversion and that suggests-
VIEIRA: A smart one?
BEGALA: For the McCain camp, very smart, sure. They are, these campaigns
have two totally different goals. The McCain campaign's job is to try to
distract people from the fact that you know in the lives of most people the
economy is going in the wrong direction, health care is going in the wrong
direction, the whole country is going in the wrong direction. Oh wait look
at this shiny object over here, you know, let's make a preposterous
allegation of sexism because you use a common phrase. The Obama campaign's
job is the opposite. They need to label that, set it aside, and say here's
why they're doing it because they don't want you to remember for the last 8
years-
VIEIRA: But Obama-
BEGALA: -they've run the country.
VIEIRA: -said lipstick, it must, the minute it came out of his mouth he must
have thought geez, I probably shouldn't have even gone down this road.
BEGALA: Well, but see, you can't let them get into your head like that. You
know, I just think this has been a frankly it's been in the news media
seizing on it, great success for the McCain campaign. There are people in
the McCain campaign every morning who get up and say, how do we distract
people from the fact that two million folks are about to lose their homes,
seven million have lost their health care? How do we distract from the fact
that our guy votes with Bush 91% of the time. Oh I have a good idea, let's
accuse Barack Obama of sexism. He was raised by a single mom, he must hate
women. See, it's crazy.
VIEIRA: But you know they also may be thinking that happened during the
primaries, Obama and his camp were accused of sexism by the Clintons. And
with some people, that resonated. There are people that you know, Clinton
supporters to this day believe that she was treated differently because she
was a woman.
BEGALA: Yeah I think most of the complaints are with he media than with the
candidate, than with Obama himself. I will note there was at least one
really astonishing moment in the primaries when somebody went up to John
McCain at a town hall meeting and used the b word to describe Senator
Clinton. And he laughed and said good question. Now that was a time for him
to show some real leadership so you know McCain has got very thin ice here
he's skating on when he says the word lipstick is offensive but the b word
he thinks is ok to Hillary Clinton?
VIEIRA: Let's talk about what Karl Rove said in the Wall St. Journal today
because you actually brought it up. Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin
has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten
into Barack Obama's head. Has she effectively gotten into his head?
BEGALA: Oh I think certainly into the campaign's head, who knows you know I
don't want to pretend I can peer into Senator Obama's head itself. But yes,
because there's this enormous distraction. This has been the benefit of
picking someone who's never been vetted, who we have no idea about John
McCain himself only met once. And I think it's actually a way that Bush has
gotten into McCain's head. Just like Bush, John McCain goes rash, reckless,
goes with his gut. You know, he didn't think this thing through. And,
politically it's working out but I'd say governmentally, this is going to be
really difficult I think for McCain to pull off.
VIEIRA: We also have a poll that particularly resonates today, on 9/11 the
anniversary of 9/11. People were asked who they think would be a better
commander in chief more straight forward, stronger leadership qualities,
McCain on all of those. So, how does Obama turn that around?
BEGALA: A couple ways. I thought when Obama spoke in Denver, he was strong,
he was clear, he went right at McCain on those questions. And then second,
putting the last eight years on trial, asking people do you really feel
safer, are we safer? You know, the Bush administration, with McCain support,
I think has not made our ports safer, not our nuclear plants, they couldn't
even protect us from Mexican jalapeños that flipped across the border in
Texas and attacked our intestines. Okay, this is a crowd that has failed the
last eight years, and I think Barack needs to that. Put Bush and McCain on
trial. John McCain's running mate for Barack Obama should never be Sarah
Palin, it should always be George W. Bush. He should tell the folks 91%, if
your momma and my momma on election day realize that 91% of the time, McCain
is wih Bush, Barack'll win.
VIEIRA: And very quickly on your book I want to make sure I plug this, but
also you say it's a love story, you talk about the hug between Bush and
McCain 2004 campaign, Bush's campaign was a defining moment for McCain's
candidacy coming up and whom he is as a candidate. What do you mean?
BEGALA: He made a fundamental choice about his life and his career. He was
going to be a Bush Republican. He'd been a very conservative Republican, and
then for awhile when he ran for President he was pretty moderate. For about
five minutes he was pro-choice. For literally one minute, during a
commercial break he was for gay rights, gay marriage in fact even on
Hardball, Chris Matthew's show, but he made that choice to hug Bush and he
embraced him, he embraced his philosophy, we're seeing he's embraced his
style of politics, and again that's the Obama campaign needs to do here.
They need to make this a choice between the past and Bush and McCain and the
future, Obama and Biden.
VIEIRA: Okay you look at our poll and again when you talk about change, his
numbers are going up. McCain's are going up.
BEGALA: They are, they are, he's, McCain is doing his job, the question is
has he done his job the last eight years supporting Bush all this time.
Obama needs to do his job as well but we're only beginning to get into this.
We're about 53 days to go and I think we aint see nothing yet.
VIEIRA: Alright Paul Begala thanks very much. If you'd like to read an
excerpt from Third Term: Why George W. Bush Loves John McCain, you can find
one at our website at todayshow.com
Headline #9
*Blogger Comments On Palin Bashing, Her Popularity Domination Over McCain,
and Wish for Flipped Ticket* (FNC 09/11/08 7:59am)
STEVE DOOCY: […] Are the media going overboard with so called, PDS, Palin
derangement syndrome?
MICHELLE MALKIN: […] I think PDS is rivaling Bush derangement syndrome in
craziness. It's not just the blog-o-sphere, it's the entertainment industry.
[…] This is the full employment act for the internet, debunking all of the
rumors and the smears, and these outbreaks. I mean, just most recently of
course yesterday, you had Matt Damon and Roger Ebert, you've had Woopi
Goldberg, all bashing Sarah Palin, questioning her parenthood abilities,
going after her family. And you've got it on these big giant entertainment
outlets as well. I've been following US Weekly and the backlash there, and
they are hurting so badly guys, that they are begging people who are
cancelling their subscriptions to stay on and promising to give them five
extra free issues. So it really is ridiculous. And to tie this to September
11th, I just want to mention one particularly odious and vulgar person who
has been bashing Sarah Palin. There was a comedian from Britain, Russell
Brand, who hosted the MTV VMA's, this guy's idea of humor and the reason he
came to fame in Britain was because he thought it would be funny to dress up
as Osama Bin Laden the day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Ok? This is the
guy that VIACOM and MTV hired to host the VMA's during the seventh
anniversary of the week of 9/11.
BRIAN KILMEADE: Unbelievable, that's what VIACOM wants out there. […]
[…]
BRIAN KILMEADE: Hey, Senator McCain, I know you were slow to get on his
bandwagon. Is he winning you over?
*MALKIN: He's not. She is. And I think you're hearing that sentiment from
the thousands of people who are showing up at these massive rallies*,
pictures of which you are not seeing on the front page of the New York Times
or the Washington Post in the same way the slapped Obama's on there. *But
these voters are driving many hours to see these McCain-Palin rallies are
going there to see Sarah Palin. She is the real star here. And there are a
lot of folks among the conservative base that think the ticket really should
be flipped.*
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