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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Caddying for Soros is hardly worth a thread.
JiangxiDad on April 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM
justincase: Your theories reminded me of a Patricia Cornwell novel about how diverse people mysteriously began dying of smallpox, a disease considered to be wiped out. The method of transmission was one of those sample face misters delivered in the mail. To learn of the source of the scourge, you have to read the novel.
My memories The Stand are linked to my having a case of the flu at the same time I was reading the King novel. After I passed the book to my dad, he, too, came down with the flu. We both laughed about double-whammy of the experience.
onlineanalyst on April 26, 2009 at 2:52 PM
I know Drudge is a conservative, and I’m not expecting his site to be C-SPAN, but has anybody noticed that pretty much all his political links are anti-Obama?
That is, as opposed to being a mix of that, neutral, and anti-other politicians?
YYZ on April 26, 2009 at 2:58 PM
YYZ on April 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM
onlineanalyst at 2:52
lol. Things that make you go hmmm…
I don’t know what happened in Austria, and I don’t want to be a kook, but the timing set off alarms for me. Seems like the Austrian company got found out when some of the virus mix killed some gerbils in a Czech experiment in mid-February We’re told that the vaccines sent out were still safe. If Baxter just screwed up their protocols that would be the end of the story. If somebody there did it purposely and their plan was foiled by the Czechs (whose media, BTW, was wondering about a month ago if this was bioterrorism) what would they do next?
If they had the deadly bio-weapon already, the easiest way to get it to the USA – now that Napoltano is our homeland security head – is to send it through Mexico. Under Obama, Mexicans’ entrance to the USA is almost a protected right.
I have no way of knowing what really happened and will have to watch what happens now. But to hear the national security guy – whose employees accessed Obama’s passport files 3 times (once to find out what needed to be changed, once to lift the needed scans, and once to replace what needed to be changed?) in incients which the company wrote off as “idle curiosity” – say there is no evidence of bioterrorism doesn’t put me at ease at all.
justincase on April 26, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Which should scare the crap out of all of us.
AZCoyote on April 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM
LOL! Online Daily Kos polls don’t count.
Oh, you mean that new ABC/WaPo “poll”? It got that result by oversampling Democrats by 14 points. In other words, it’s not a real poll, just more propaganda.
In fact, this “poll” sets a new record-they used the smallest number of Republicans in their “polling sample”
since January of 2008.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_042609.html
Del Dolemonte on April 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Oh, come on, he only hates them if they’re Americans.
Daggett on April 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Why wasn’t Obama in church this morning?
ladyingray on April 26, 2009 at 3:59 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
strangelet on April 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM
If you want Obama adoration, there are gazillions of outlets specializing in it.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM
Who cares about him playing golf? I was more upset when there was any early morning report that he was going to address the nation about the flu. It later was updated to someone in the administration who was going to have a statement. As soon as the Senate can confirm Jeananne Garafalo as Surgeon General we won’t have to worry about these things.
Cindy Munford on April 26, 2009 at 4:05 PM
No church for The One?
youngO on April 26, 2009 at 4:07 PM
How on earth is there any way to know that? By some poll? How many responded to this poll? In the tens of millions?
This is probably true. From what I understand, of those who are up for reelection, the numbers are too overwhelming in safe incumbancies for the Democratic candidate(s).
I disagree. It was the those who were less conservative in the Party who didn’t work out so well in recent elections. I think when you don’t offer much of a difference between the two Parties, fickle voters have a tendency to move towards the one out of office. The Party needs to offer a clear contrast from the other. D’s and R’s are less important here.
Pure sophistry. Even on the surface and quick look at the opposing sides to this argument would find that the above is a non sequitur. We defend waterboarding. We don’t believe waterboarding is torture. Therefore, we are not defending torture.
Breaking the law? There are many officials in DC who are law breakers. It is not monolithic to one Party. Even with the addition of multiple law breaking cabinet members of this administration. In fact, if one wanted to do a comparative tally, I doubt you would appreciate the results.
anuts on April 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM
He’s waiting to find out if they were ACORN employees?
Upstater85 on April 26, 2009 at 4:24 PM
People like Rothenberg are paid to give their opinion, but after the sun sets it is still an OPINION.
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM
So now Obama will call for a playoff system in golf?
Squiggy on April 26, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Wow, I guess the war really is over — the President is playing golf again!
Too bad those troops still dying in Iraq and Afghanistan didn’t get the memo.
rockmom on April 26, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I agree.
I’m not an Obama fan by any means, but what could he do about the swine flu in the Oval Office that he can’t do from the golf course. He isn’t the Messiah, after all.
jimmy2shoes on April 26, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I can’t stand Obama. But if man desires a few hours to himself to spend as he pleases, that’s OK. This is the United States and a free country after all, no matter how badly Obama wants to change that.
Hog Wild on April 26, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Just too funny,,, sample of the first few comments when the Paliniacs thought it was her
It must hurt to want so bad….
Bradky on April 26, 2009 at 7:28 PM
What I don’t know why you have this sick obsession with the Governor. What’s your agenda? You come on here to bash her supporters for no reason…
TimeTraveler on April 26, 2009 at 7:35 PM
I have no obsession with her. It is very funny how the same people who complain about the “cult of Obama” simply can’t see they are doing the same thing irt Sara.
Bradky on April 26, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Judging from the number of posts and the, shall we say, intensity of emotion expressed, there’s far more of an unbalanced anti-Palin cult than a pro-Palin one. Ya know, you could just ignore Palin threads.
ddrintn on April 26, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Instead of playing a round of golf, couldn’t Obama have done something useful…like hoeing the weeds in Michelle’s garden?
onlineanalyst on April 26, 2009 at 9:31 PM
It depends on how many rounds. Since Obama wants to tax my rounds of golf into never never land, I think I do begrudge him, since he is paying for those rounds (or not — maybe that’s one of the perqs) out of the 97% of his 2-plus million which remained after taxes.
And the rest of us get to pay for his loopholes.
Obama Franks Waters LLC — destroyers of the nation’s economy.
unclesmrgol on April 26, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Damn…wish it had been Sarah Palin. Oh well.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 26, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Ya know I just have to laugh at sentiments like this. 500 comments praising her courage and strength and it turns out she didn’t say it. Then to say the “anti-Palin cult” is unbalanced wipes it all away is hypocrisy run amok. Unbalanced is beleiving any good thing about Palin, such as you and others do. Much like the Huff-Po “love Obama for just being him” crowd.
Where there is one bit of difference in the behavior of these two very funny cults of personality?
Instead of using Palin threads as a kool-aid dunking booth you could try some objectivity. Get some – it’s the real thing.
Bradky on April 26, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Palin is a good governor with a track record and results that show it–Ogabe is not a good president.
In the 100 days he’s been the Precedent, he’s jacked up the debt into the tens of trillions, bowed and scraped to America’s enemies, and gutted our national security.
There’s quite a bit more substance to the Palin love than there is to mindless worship of Ogabe at the HuffPo.
The reason we responded favorably to the comments attributed to Gov. Palin are because they were substantive criticisms of Ogabe that she *might* have made and probably has or will.
Jenfidel on April 26, 2009 at 11:39 PM
BTW, does Ogabe have to play golf for….5 HOURS?!
He is being paid by us to do the nation’s business!
It doesn’t matter how much he made personally–he’s supposed to be working for us, on our dime.
I don’t begrudge him a little down time and recreation, but 5 hours?!?
Jenfidel on April 26, 2009 at 11:41 PM
When did I say I believe every good thing about Palin? The unbalanced part is in believing everything BAD about her. It’s held to with more fervor than anything the wildest Palin fan can come up with. If she had written the piece would it have made any difference to you? Nooooo. You would have found some grammatical irregularity, something that just doesn’t quite square with reality, some evidence of simple-minded fanaticism that’s sure to drive away all those enlightened ones like yourself.
Here’s a suggestion for you: spend a few more electrons in telling us what you are for. You don’t like Palin. We get the message.
ddrintn on April 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM
If you had as many Secret Service people following you around as he does you would be lucky to shoot 9 holes in 8 hours. 5 hours really isnt a big deal.
doriangrey on April 27, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Well then maybe he should say “screw it” and just do some, you know, work instead. But then that’s what Axelrod’s for.
ddrintn on April 27, 2009 at 12:06 AM
By the way, not all 500+ comments were praising Palin. It seems that there’s probably some tired snark for every positive comment anyway. Like I said, anti-Palin cult.
ddrintn on April 27, 2009 at 12:16 AM
ddrintn on April 27, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Well, you’ve got to admit some of those comments he quoted were a bit over the top in their adulation, which was funny considering it was a wrongly attributed quote. It DID read like the lefties drooling praise of Obama. I mean, are all of those people going to fawn over Meghan Clyne now? Somehow I doubt it. Anyway, nothing against Palin, it just does get a bit thick on here sometimes.
thecountofincognito on April 27, 2009 at 2:38 AM
*yawn*
See my previous post re: Murdoch rag.
benny shakar on April 27, 2009 at 3:22 AM
technopeasant on April 26, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Anybody who has ever heard palin speak knew she could not possibly have made the statement, due to the proper usage of “gratuitous” and “decamped.”
benny shakar on April 27, 2009 at 3:28 AM
LOL – you keep proving my point for me. In every single Palin thread one can count on the fact that you will post comment after comment defending Palin and criticizing those who don’t feel the same.
I’ve told you before I don’t dislike Palin. I dislike mindless worship of any individual thought of as the next political messiah. Whether it is Fred, Palin, Obama or Clinton – doesn’t matter.
operative words being might and probably.
Bradky on April 27, 2009 at 4:34 AM
Bradky on April 27, 2009 at 4:34 AM
What you call “mindless worship” is nothing more than an appreciation for a politician that stands for something and isn’t afraid to say it. That and the fact that she actually has an actual record of accomplishment and doesn’t hang out with anti-American, terrorist scum, racist preachers or take kick-backs from slum lords. The Obama drones who said Sara was unqualified voted in a man who showed up for work 143 days in 4 years while serving in the Senate and didn’t do much before that.
Really? Then who did you vote for?
celtnik on April 27, 2009 at 5:36 AM
No it becomes mindless worship when a significant number of people make glowing praise for something she never said.
I would venture a guess that 85% of the people who burn incense to her in these threads had never heard of her until she was picked as the VP.
Your diatribe about Obama is worthy of an anti-Bush rant at Huff-Po.
Bradky on April 27, 2009 at 5:48 AM
The answer is BO hates having people trying to make him a responsible POTUS. If he cannot blame it on Bush then the people calling on him to answer for his actions are all RACIST!!!
This is what America voted for. Suck it up!
DannoJyd on April 27, 2009 at 8:15 AM
Dude, the truth is you and the other Palin hate-mongers are Palin-phobic at very least. Admiring someone does not a cult make, but endless ranting about Palin and her admirers is definitely cult-like. You also exhibit “worship” behavior toward Obama, again qualifying you for cult membership by your own standards. The truth will set you free — admit your endless love of The One!
littleguy on April 27, 2009 at 11:01 AM
conjecture Bradkey, not fact.
What I said about Obama, is factual.
celtnik on April 27, 2009 at 12:48 PM
What difference does it make whether a Palin fan only just heard of her last August, or had been closely following her career for years? There has to be a first time for hearing about anyone. How many Romney fans followed his every move until he announced his candidacy? Not very many, I’d bet. Those that did were a little unhinged, I would say.
ddrintn on April 27, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Palin Drones both of you ;)People knew about Romney long before Palin – remember he was in the primaries.
Didn’t vote for obama but did vote for McCain with the fervent prayer that if elected he would live a long life.
Show me one post in which I fawned over any particular candidate. You simply will not find one. It is called independence of thought and a refusal to let others tell me “who” I should vote for – or more to the point an adult who researches the issues largely on their own. The Palin and Obama drones look for perfume in their idol’s farts. Criticism of their god/goddess justifies an all out assault on the person who criticizes them – “how dare you say that about the first African-American President! – you must be racist” or “You leftard tool just leave Palin (and precious trig) alone or you are unAmerican”
Bradky on April 27, 2009 at 6:38 PM
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