Press Consumed by Palin Wardrobe Costs While “The One” Skates on Fraudulent Online Campaign Donations
I just took the bookmarks to the NY Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post out of my web browser and will no longer regularly visit those sites. I can’t support them with web traffic given their unbelievably biased coverage this election season. The latest example is this non story over Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. Sarah wasn’t given 2 phony baloney book contracts by her liberal friends in the media, so the Republican Party spent $150K on a campaign wardrobe.
I know. I too was horrified! A politician bought nice suits for a campaign—news flash at 11! Of course, we don’t know how much Barack Obama and Joe Biden spend on their suits. I’m sure they buy their shirts at the Burlington Coat Factory and their jackets and pants off the rack at the Men’s Warehouse, right? And the media doesn’t seem real interested in Michele Obama’s lobster and Iranian caviar lunch at the Waldorf Astoria. Do you think the Obamas paid for that with their own money?
Meanwhile, the media fastidiously ignores the real money scandal of this Presidential Election—Barack Obama’s broken promise to accept public financing and the $600 million he’s attempting to buy the presidency with. Think the media might touch on that subject had McCain broken his promise? Don’t hold your breath waiting for them to demand answers from Obama on that lie. But the story gets even better now that we find out the Obama campaign isn’t policing its Internet donations.
That’s right! ACORN can register Mickey Mouse to vote and foreign nationals can donate in Mickey’s name at the Obama web site. Obama turned off the standard credit card protection and name verification apparatus used by any somewhat credible online merchant. Remember all the hype about the small donations and brand new contributors to the Obama campaign? I’m guessing a lot of them are not real people, foreign nationals, or terrorists living in a cave between Afghanistan and Pakistan. That might be an interesting and important story. If only the media wasn’t so busy looking for price tags on Sarah Palin’s clothes, maybe they could devote some time to it.
There is one ray of “sunshine” in this whole sordid tale. As Michele Malkin notes, the mainstream media is dying. Moody’s announced today that it might cut the NY Times debt to junk status given its latest horrific quarter, and the Times isn’t the only MSM outlet struggling to keep its head above water. It’s a shame that it has to come to this. A strong, unbiased, media with an investigative bent would add such value to our democracy, but when you shift from journalist to liberal propagandist, you deserve to sink.
Update: Over at the Corner, they make the point that someone would have to knowingly disable the automatic checks to reach the level of fraud Obama’s donation site is capable of producing.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, mainstream media, Media Bias, NY Times, Presidential Election, Sarah PalinOctober 23, 2008 at 7:24 pm | Trackback
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Actually, Obama DOES buy his clothes at local mid-range department store and has his shoes resoled rather than wasting a bunch of cash on new ones. Michelle Obama quite famously credited the bulk of her wardrobe to the GAP. For higher-end outfits (e.g. the “terrorist fist jab” dress), she chooses to support an American designer from Chicago (as opposed to Palin choosing Givenchy).
Also, in the interest of fairness, it’s important to note that while ultra liberal, ACORN did not itself participate in any fraud. Part-time, temporary employees handed over the fake registration card. ACORN staff screened them, flagged the fakes, and BECAUSE IT IS FEDERAL LAW, turned them in along with the legit registrations. It is interesting to note that out of over 1.3 million new registrations, only 300 were fake and all of them had already been flagged and reported by ACORN. It is even more interesting to note how my so-called conservative peers can continue to harp and harp and whine about this non-issue instead of the REAL issues that are stake — or without even blushing at the fact that Republicans tried to use foreclosure rolls to keep over 6,000 people from exercising their right to vote. It is precisely this sort of nonsense that loses support for our cause.
There are very real and legitimate issues to be discussed. ACORN is not one of them.
As to Obama’s “promise” to use campaign funds — he never promised! He said he’d consider it. We can try and try to nail him on this, but it’s a wasted effort. And a pointless one.
Oh, and while I’m at it, the “fraudulent” online donations are coming from the GOP to try to entrap Obama. Is this the best we can do? Rather than nailing him on his policies we conservatives have to lower ourselves to crime to try and get him ousted?
It won’t work. Obama has made the headway he has because he stuck to the issues while we conservatives flailed about focusing on stupid non-issues. Moderates and undecideds see right through it. Even liberals can see right through it. I don’t know why we can’t. We’re going to destroy ourselves and our cause with this kind of petty divisiveness and lies. We’ve already managed to brand ourselves as racist bigots intolerant of any religion other than Christianity (but not catholic because somehow they don’t count as real christians). Do we have to sink so low in our efforts to raise ourselves up?
Oh oh oh! And I completely forgot one other thing: We have been harping and harping on Obama for raising so much money for his primary and presidential campaigns. Have we so quickly forgotten how harshly Bush was criticized for HIS war chest?
Yes, Mrs. Obama is a real fan of the GAP:
http://www.nydailynews.com/lat.....chell.html
http://www.wwd.com/lifestyle-n.....be-1725476
And then there’s Mr. Obama buying Hart Schaffner Marx (something oddly prophetic in that last name) suits at a cool $1,500 a pop. A real man of the people there:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/p.....22.article
And Augusta, it’s a crime to register fake people, so your distinction between the crime of vote fraud and voter registration fraud is rather meaningless. Besides, ACORN wouldn’t stoop to do its own dirty work. They hire the poor and disadvantaged and hang them out to dry when things go wrong:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI.....index.html
Oh, but ACORN is really just there to help, right?
And you know what, Republicans didn’t donate $3 million in foreign cash to ensnare Obama, who by the way, couldn’t be ensnared if he’d actually police his online contributions with readily available technology, like the law requires:
http://www.zimbio.com/politics.....n+Campaign
And BTW, I believe you’re a conservative, Augusta, like I believe I can buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
I think the MSM has banked their continued survival on an Obama presidency. If Obama, Pelosi, and Reid follow through with their plans to resurrect the Fairness Doctrine and regulate the internet, the MSM will end up being the only game in town. Circulation and viewership problems? What circulation and viewership problems?
Augusta is probably Chris Buckley or Pat Buchanan.
“Do we have to sink so low in our efforts to raise ourselves up?”
Ho-Hum, I’m so bored…Send in the clowns!
Juggle that politically contrived negation!
(Shhh…don’t tell him! he-he-he…)
Obie has “stuck to the issues”? What controlled substances on BizzaroWorld have you been smoking Augusta? The only issues he’s brought up is that any criticism of him is “racist”, otherwise he carps on about how mean-spirited America , how bad Bush and the evil Republicans are, and how he can magically refute the Laws of Economics and Taxation by give 95% of the people a tax credit, despite that almost 50% of them don’t pay income taxes. Oh, and he’ll reform health care by distributing it on a political basis where certain folks will get free everything, whereas others who don’t fit the “criteria” will get nothing.
Overall, your defense of the Chocolate Messiah reeks of Clintonesque word parsing, and is similarly devoid of content. I will give you credit that your turgid prose is somewhat less dishonest than the ususal simian crap flung by the One and his Obamanation in the best Franklin Park Zoo style.
Augusta??? Augusta???
Why can’t these Obamanite trolls have an attention span longer than a hyperactive 5 year old on a sugar rush? You’d think that the Chocolate Messiah was paying them for only the first two posts, and nothing else for the followup. Come on progs!!
Well,
What say you Palinites about the latest revealations by the McCain camp? I mean the additional $50,000+plus that was spent on her wardrobe. President Obama never paraded himself as Joe Six Pack!
Thanks, Chocolate, for the figures. You REALLY pinned us down on that one. We’re crushed.
Now go back to those pin-dancing angels.