Whoops: Attack on Obama in NY Post wrongly attributed to Palin
posted at 12:45 pm on April 26, 2009 by Allahpundit
Turns out last night’s quote of the day from Sarahcuda wasn’t a quote from Sarahcuda. It was written by Meghan Clyne, a fact the Post has now — very quietly — acknowledged by disappearing the original attribution. It did seem odd that a headline-grabbing attack on The One by Palin was buried inconspicuously inside a list of 100 items instead of being broken out into its own op-ed; now we know why. Hugely embarrassing for the Post, needless to say. I wonder how they blew it. Did someone forward them an e-mail with the quote from Clyne misattributed to Palin and they took it at face value?
Speaking of embarrassing attacks on Obama, feel free to use this thread to comment on Drudge knocking The One this morning for playing a round of golf while there’s a crisis somewhere, which isn’t the first time a dopey charge of circumstantial callousness has been dumped on him (or on Bush, of course). Exit question: Why does Obama hate people with the flu?
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Good case of * Open mouth – Insert foot*. score one for the good folks.
hawkman on April 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
WTF New York Post?
I don’t know how the words “Sarah Palin” and “Meghan Clyne” could sound alike, but whatever.
seaplanes on April 26, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Drudge?
Who?
For one, I am glad Obama is out playing a few rounds of golf…won’t begrudge him that. Far better than Obama trying to micromanage this event or any crisis.
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM
I look forward to the day when the NY Post is toast! I can’t wait for a lot of News Paper companies to go out of business. Then hopefully there will be News Stations that will fall. I have never seen such liars in my life. Don’t know why Obingo hates people with the flu. I know I have so much disdain for that man. Mr. Teleprompter the man who is going to bring our Country down. I will and still am fighting anything that comes up. Might not do any good, but doesn’t hurt to at least say that I did write, and call. The NY Post needs to leave Sarah alone. They have and many other News agencies trashed her enough. It is over and she is still the Governor of Alaska. They need to leave it be and tell the truth of what is going on. But they don’t know how to be truthful.
sheebe on April 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Hey AP. are you sure it is Meghan Clyne?, or Meghan McCain in disguise?.
hawkman on April 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM
I think Drudge is just getting back at the left for them harping on Bush over golf. Both in that Fahrenheit 9/11 clip and when he said he gave up golf over(I think) the war in Iraq.
Doughboy on April 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I just need to hear Kanye say this, just once, just one ******* time!
CaptFlood on April 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM
But Obama’s getting hourly briefings on a possible pandemic while he’s out on the golf course course. It’s not as if he’s out on a ranch or anything.
s/off
Wethal on April 26, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I didn’t think that sounded like Palin.
AnninCA on April 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM
The left decimated Bush for not personally being in New Orleans as its own city and state government did nothing. Obama can face a headline that shows him golfing while Wall Street burns and swine flu is rapidly spreading across North America.
amerpundit on April 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Hear hear!
More golf, less misgoverning.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM
I have no problem with Obama playing Golf, but we had better hear a lot of righteous indignation from the left tomorrow about him being heartless and uncaring… you know, just to be fair and consistent.
Meanwhile, I won’t hold my breath.
smfoushee on April 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Playing a round of golf is better than groveling and apologizing before countries that owe us their very existance.
thomasaur on April 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM
I feel so much better knowing Ja-No is on the job regarding the FLU.
I’m surprised she hasn’t suspended Customs and Border Protection’s authority and told them to stand down if we get a flood of Mexicans coming into the country, fleeing the evil flu, of course, blaming US for the outbreak.
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM
OOPS!
Terrye on April 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Just across BNO News:
Let’s imagine Bush golfing during that.
amerpundit on April 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Who bought Megan Clyne’s clothes? Who’s the real mother of her children?
Ted Torgerson on April 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Much rather Obama take a few mulligans on the golf course than even one regarding national security.
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Did Obowa create swine flu to kill white, Christian Kansans the same way that Reagan created AIDS to kill gay people?
Jus’ sayin’, there could be more to this than meets the eye.
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Isn’t the usual incubation period for the flu, two weeks. This stuff hits you in 24-48 hours. Captain Trips?
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM
I blame it all on the swine.
[Feel free to define "swine" any way you may wish...]
:-)
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Absolutely nothing that Barack Obama wants to do will help the country more than playing golf. All day. Every day.
DJ Dubya on April 26, 2009 at 1:05 PM
I don’t think it’s dopey – the press excoriated Bush for it – so why should “The One” get a pass? The standards were set my friends – and the Democrats set them. We will now force them to live up their standards and jab them each and every time they fail to.
If nothing else – it highlights their hypocrisy. So exactly why IS Obama on the Golf Course when he should be tending to a potential disaster here? I’m watching the news right now – and Janet Napalitano is giving a brief on it. If she can work on a Sunday – why can’t THE ONE? Hmmm?
And besides – Janet is an airhead – she probably thinks the flu came in from Canada!
HondaV65 on April 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM
He shouldn’t be playing golf– he should be practicing his bowing and scraping to foreign kings.
Blake on April 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM
I had it right when I posted “Murdoch rag”.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM
If this turns into Tube Neck, I’m heading for the cabin.
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM
This stinks to high heaven.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 1:08 PM
For common flu strains, incubation is 1-4 days.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 1:09 PM
Wow, the Post looks really dumb now.
The part that was questionable for me was the mention of those two pieces of legislation which alledgedly are supposed to be supporting women. It seems she would have used something else to illustrate the point. However, there were a couple other sentences that seemed palinesque.
AP’s mention that it was not put up as an op-ed is important. Anything Sarah writes is bigtime so they would have put it up somewhere else more prominent to milk the ratings as much as possible.
Big screwup by the Post.
Sapwolf on April 26, 2009 at 1:10 PM
My guess is he plays golf as well as he bowls.
rsl775 on April 26, 2009 at 1:11 PM
What’s that make your NYT?
If I say it, I get banned for life.
Sapwolf on April 26, 2009 at 1:11 PM
What is disturbing about NYPost’s misattribution is that somebody alerted the trolls at Politico who seemed to know beforehand that this wasn’t written by Sarah and wrapped it in their narrative of “Sarah is an idiot who can’t write” and gleefully bombarded Politico with it.
Somthing’s very fishy at NYP.
promachus on April 26, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Thanks, Lox, I feel a lot better. Currently watching the circle jerk giving a press conference and getting angrier every minute.
I haven’t had the flu since ’96. I thought I was going to die.
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Sad to hear that it wasn’t Palin. I really liked the piece.
Hey Sarah, throw us some Red Meat will you? I’m tired of hearing Jindal trash Cheney, Sanford trashing Rush.
Obama playing Golf during a possible Pandemic….Classy guy. Nice pic on drudge. His calves look like toothpicks.
portlandon on April 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Folks trolls on several sites including the Politico claimed all day that Sarah Palin did not write this piece. If indeed she did not write this piece one of four things happened:
1)The trolls were tipped off by a NY Post insider or employee or were in cahoots with the NY Post knowing that the piece would be misattributed
2)Meghan Clyne or somebody in Clyne’s camp discovered the unintentional error in the NY Post and fed the info to the trolls
3)the internet trolls were just sticking to their script and it was a fortuitous guess
4)somebody in Sarah’s camp is a spy, realized the unintentional error and fed the info to the trolls so they could exploit it
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM
President Bush stopped playing the game since the press was portraying him as a heartless bastard for golfing during a “crisis” (crisis defined as the world not being a utopia). In recognition for his sacrificed, the press responded by … portraying Bush as a heartless bastard.
Does that mean President Obama is a heartless bastard for golfing during the current crisis? Maybe Obama just hates Mexicans.
AaronGuzman on April 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Watching the presser on this now with Janet from Another Planet and Goofy Gibbs. Here is the one thing that is sticking in my mind and that is the use of the word “marathon”. In fact the quote is “this is not a sprint but a marathon”.
With the large number of illegals in the country, this is indeed going to be a marathon. Many either will not stay at home or get the proper treatment which in turn could keep this flu going.
I also remember these same Lefty types slamming Bush during Katrina where things were very “fluid” and changed quite often as the data came in to the White House. Bush certainly was not playing golf while this storm was anticipated. Living in the area, I can say that things were not handled correctly, but this storm was an epic storm and a natural disaster on a scale many did not properly anticipate. We are human beings, and not remotely perfect. Most of us hated the trashing of Bush since much of what happened negatively was on a state and local level. So while I am very much not happy with Obama, I will say that how this is handled largely falls on state and local governments. Where Obama is going to need to work quickly is getting the Tamiflu and other drugs easily accessible to the states and PDQ upon requests of the states.
But one does wonder what went through their minds allowing him to play golf?
freeus on April 26, 2009 at 1:15 PM
I’m sure he’ll make it up to them with amnesty.
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 1:15 PM
I had it right when I posted “Murdoch rag”.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM
I am banning myself.
The stink of evil on this blog is too much for me.
The devil is at work here.
I will pray for you.
getalife on April 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Yet another broken promise from the left; no wonder they fall on all fours for Obowa.
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I wonder if the vector for the rapid spread of this flu in Mexico City can’t be traced back to hundreds of Mexicans filling “free” hospital waiting rooms, holding their numbered tag, waiting for hours to be seen by a nurse-physician.
If each person infected in a Mexican clinic waiting room encountered ten people within the infectious period, and they, in turn were in contact with ten others, and they with ten…the subsequent spread would be “extremadamente rapido.”
coldwarrior on April 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM
The Stand! Love it! Glad I live in the rural west. So where do we all meet up after the fecal matter hits the rotary air oscillator?
Wyznowski on April 26, 2009 at 1:17 PM
I live in the ‘rural’ west, myself, but about 90 miles from the Mexican border…..I have provisions, but my husband unfortuntely can’t stay home from work, Ja-No will not allow it.
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Sick people can still vote their conscious, dead people vote democrat…
elgeneralisimo on April 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 1:16 PM
I never said how long.
I am not left, I am a proud Independent.
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
It would be a hoot if Canada were to close its border with the US; we don’t have any cases yet.
ProfessorMiao on April 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Lying Whore!
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM
I hope Canada does, maybe if we can get the idiot off the green, he will follow suit with Mexico. Doubt it, though. If we don’t give sick people breaking into our country medical care, we will again be called racist.
HornetSting on April 26, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Don’t be an idiot. This sort of thing is the left’s measure. They must live up to their own standards, or do you consider it embarrassing to say that?
Other than that, why would The Precedent be playing golf, anyway? Was there a foursome from Trinity Crypto-Christian Church that The Precedent used to go out with to the lily white golf courses?
Allah, learn something: No attack on The Precedent is embarrassing. The Precedent is an embarrassment.
progressoverpeace on April 26, 2009 at 1:25 PM
+
the_nile on April 26, 2009 at 1:26 PM
If that is true, what is your number 1 beef with Obama?
redshirt on April 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM
getalife on April 26, 2009 at 1:22 PM
See how it lies, like all lefties do, as if “banning” equates to being away on vacation and not posting for a few days. No honor among thieves, and seeing the current financial rape of this great nation by the current administration, that is in apt description.
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Health care workers in every country don’t suspect a new deadly strain of flu until their standard treatments don’t work. At that point though, they should immediately take preventive action and sound the alarm to WHO.
Don’t know how long they were seeing cases before the Mexicans did that. Every day they didn’t figure it out and respond, hundreds or thousands of new infections were allowed, including visitors from around the world.
Flu pandemics come in waves. This is just the first. It could sputter out, or it could grow exponentially. We will find out.
Loxodonta on April 26, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Obama golfs, people die.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. After hearing that kind of garbage for 8 years, it just had to come out.
huckleberryfriend on April 26, 2009 at 1:31 PM
I wonder if he golfs like he’s in the special olympics. I could care less if he plays a game of golf now and then. No one should have cared when Bush did either but I hope he gets a pass since that would be even more proof of the media’s ignorance. But hey, I liked the Post article. I didn’t think I’d read all 100 of them, but I sure did.
Obama hates people with the flu because they’re a distraction.
scalleywag on April 26, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Classic NY Post. Greatest front page in the world. The rest? Not so much.
SnarkVader on April 26, 2009 at 1:33 PM
I thought the same thing last night. I wanted it to be true though.
conservnut on April 26, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Since I’m supposed to whine about something, why is it that the president isn’t personally involved in the swine flu issue, but he had to be personally involved with the Somali pirate hostage situation?
Weebork on April 26, 2009 at 1:35 PM
No, you voted for the Democrat Presidential candidate in 2004, which proves you’re lying thrr your Mountain Dew-rotted teeth when you claim to “support the troops”.
BTW a Murdoch outlet also broke the story about Dubyah’s drunk driving arrest, so your whine about their objectivity won’t work here.
Now run along back to bed.
Del Dolemonte on April 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Curious, is it not? If he isn’t out-of-town continuing his campaigning then he is out-of-the-office.
Chavez must have told him to beware of the smell of sulphur in the Oval Office. Might make him ill.
/sarc
Yoop on April 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Bishop at 1:02
It wasn’t reported in the US press, but the Canadian press reported early in January that the company in Austria that makes flu vaccines – particularly the FluMist vaccine which was used to vaccinate kids free of charge in public schools all across the country (my daughter got the FluMist at school on inauguration day)- had someone internal at that factory disable their security protocols so that the most deadly strain of bird flu was mixed with human flu – exactly what would need to happen to produce the world’s most dangerous biological WMD and most devastating delivery system. Allegedly, the symptoms of such a hybrid would take 3 months to show up. January to April…. hmm…
The company claims they investigated and none of the toxic stuff made it into any of their shipped product. If I remember correctly, that area does have terrorist connections, possibly through the country bordering GEorgia (again, I can’t remember the name).
If anyone’s interested I could try to find the link.
When I saw the headlines about a surprise strain of flu that combined human with bird flu via swine… the stink meter went off in my head.
But then, I’m probably just an alarmist conspiracy theorist who is only imagining that there are people bent on killing us swine-lover infidels…
I’ll have to just trust Napolitano to investigate thoroughly…
justincase on April 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Darn it. I wish it were Palin.
deidre on April 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM
As far as The One playing golf, get over it Drudge. But apparently the lefty’s are worried about the story. When I click the link on Drudge I get. “Article not found or expired on Yahoo! News”
Yahoo pulled the article.
conservnut on April 26, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Well I’m really disappointed…I wish Sarah Palin had written it!
CCRWM on April 26, 2009 at 1:41 PM
I’m sure, somehow, this misattribution will be blamed on Palin.
Speedwagon82 on April 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM
justincase on April 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Is there a link to go with this?
Bishop on April 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Obama muffed. The Times fluffed.
Yoop on April 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM
He’d rather go golfing than be a good self-proclaimed christian and take his children to church. Priorities I tell ya!!
deidre on April 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Doesn’t matter. Axelrod and Emanuel are on the job 24/7.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM
I’m waiting for the conspiracy theories to start. Clearly, anti-Palin forces have infiltrated the Post and did this to make the Governor look bad. By the end of the day, the Palinatti will have narrowed the suspects down to Tina Fey, Mudflats and Allah.
SnarkVader on April 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Meanwhile NBC services his putter.
conservnut on April 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM
……….. practice.
Seven Percent Solution on April 26, 2009 at 1:50 PM
You’d be making a bigger deal of it than most. I don’t think it means too much.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Don’t know if it ever worked, but the link to the yahoo-ap story on The One’s golfing on Drudge is not working now
lsutiger on April 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM
You are on the suspect list too buddy!
;-)
conservnut on April 26, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Let’s see, 100 mistakes in 100 days for BHO. 1 mistake in 100 days for the NY Post. definitely a rag.
Corsair on April 26, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Far too lazy to infiltrate the Post. =)
SnarkVader on April 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM
I’D heard that President Bush offered to send help before the hurricane actually hit because the Feds knew it was going to be bad and that Blanco turned it dowm. I have never understood how Pres Bush got the bad rap for Katrina when a Democratic Mayor, Govenor and State Senators who were the first responders were the ones who really screwed up. That’s when I really started to despise the Left.
CCRWM on April 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Ahh, I copied, pasted, and edited the link…it is broken on Drudge’s site.
Here’s the real thing
lsutiger on April 26, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Meh……….
……… just a few short months ago, we would have heard about the latest casualty reports in Iraq before the story of a President playing golf during war time, flu pandemic, or what ever.
Seven Percent Solution on April 26, 2009 at 1:55 PM
That explains it – I thought that sounded way too coherent to be from Sarah Palin.
JA on April 26, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Bishop at 1:34
The original article at Canada Press isn’t available any more, but here’s an article that expands on what was said in the original article.
http://www.congresscheck.com/2009/03/05/%E2%80%98accidental%E2%80%99-contamination-of-vaccine-with-live-avian-flu-virus-virtually-impossible/
justincase on April 26, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Wait a minute. Here is the original article
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.htm
justincase on April 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM
EPIC Backfire then!
CCRWM on April 26, 2009 at 2:02 PM
The roundup of what to expect in the coming months/years of Obama’s presidency as collected in powerlineblog with links to some very respected pundits is enough to put plenty of arrows in my quiver of attacks: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/04/023415.php?format=print
That arrogant SOB in the WH intends to manipulate our economy into his version of social equity at the expense of our liberty, our growth, and our opportunities.
He gives me terminal heartburn.
BTW Henrietta still doesn’t have a job…or maybe she hasn’t found one suitable to her self-regard.
onlineanalyst on April 26, 2009 at 2:07 PM
*choke* Job????? What’s up with that?
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 2:17 PM
speaking of embarrassed attack on Palin
maverick muse on April 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM
DUHHHH they have to report on Obama golfing to make him look as “cool” as Tiger.
deidre on April 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM
That quote was too rational and thoughtful to have come from Palin.
The Wall on April 26, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Hornet Sting on April 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM
Heh. Was reading through this thread, and your comment stopped me cold. The Stand was the first thing came to mind, reading about this strain of flu. Scary to even contemplate.
irongrampa on April 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Wow Sheebee, you hate cup runeth over. Thats why your party is out power, all you people do is attack Obama, day after day. Never any new ideas, just attack. Americans see that negativity and they run from it. 26% of Americans now identify themselves as Republicans. And then the parties leaders,Rushbo, Joe the Plumber, Caribou Barbie, wail that the party isn’t conservative enough.Wow. But keep on barking about Obama, his approval rating is 69% and goes up one percentage point everytime Fox Noise attacks him. I see Stu Rothenberg says there is ZERO chance of the gop recapturing the House or Senate in 2010. Actually John Kyl says the gop will probably LOSE a senate seat or two in 2010. So keep on flying the Limbaugh flag, keep up the attacks on Obama, and please get more conservative, its working out so well for your party. Oh, and defend torture and the breaking of the law part too. How’s Palin’s defense funding coming?
athensboy on April 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Quoth the moonbat, whose party has been running on hate for 8 years. We took notes from you guys.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Baxter is the company name in question on the flu.
Here is another link
SkyWatch on April 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM
^ You shits won and STILL can’t do anything but hate. Certainly still can’t, well, think.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 2:38 PM
I never could get the link thing to work so here it is:
http://www.fiercevaccines.com/story/baxter-vax-products-contained-bird-flu-virus/2009-03-11
SkyWatch on April 26, 2009 at 2:39 PM
When was the last time the Dims had a new idea? And no, deciding to run an inexperienced socialist for President doesn’t count.
Speedwagon82 on April 26, 2009 at 2:40 PM
They haven’t done “ideas” since 1933. It’s been retread and rehash ever since.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Check out the polls on that issue. The moonbat fringe is, um, not representative. Sorry.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM
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