The Cronkite Award for this?
April 10, 2009
by Amy Siskind
|This is an update to a piece originally posted on our blog on October 1, 2008 titled What Palin ACTUALLY Said.
At that time, having just read the full transcript of Katie Couric’s interview of Sarah Palin, I was incredulous at what our media chose to include and exclude. So I did something novel. I cut and pasted Governor Palin’s ACTUAL answers to some tough questions. This exercise took me a total of about 10 minutes. That evening, our blog piece was “pinged” all over the internet, including on Propeller where it was featured as a top story. Imagine that – cutting and pasting a few paragraphs from a transcript and getting tens of thousands of hits around the blogosphere.
Clearly, CBS had an agenda of their own – as did other media outlets that perpetuated this brutal attack on Governor Palin. I find it unfathomable that Couric should receive The Cronkite Award for this butchering job (Walter I’ll bet is turning over in his grave). If she and CBS had given a balanced view of what was actually said, that would be a different story. But then again, she would not be getting an award if CBS chose snippets of what Gov Palin actually said.
I used to admire and respect Katie Couric, but I for one no longer do
Gov. Palin gave a follow up interview to Katie Couric on September 29th in which she addressed many issues of great concern to voters. A partial transcript follows.
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Palin as a Feminist
I’m a feminist who believes in equal rights and I believe that women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed and to try to do it all anyways.
Palin on Fair Pay (one of The New Agenda’s Goals)
I’m absolutely for equal pay for equal work. The Ledbetter pay act – it was gonna turn into a boon for trial lawyers who, I believe, could have taken advantage of women who were many, many years ago who would allege some kind of discrimination. Thankfully, there are laws on the books, there have been since 1963, that no woman could be discriminated against in the workplace in terms of anything, but especially in terms of pay. So, thankfully we have the laws on the books and they better be enforced.
There should be no fear of a lawsuit prohibiting a woman from making sure that the laws that are on the books today are enforced. I know in a McCain-Palin administration we will not stand for any measure that would result in a woman being paid less than a man for equal work.
Palin Global Warming
Well, we’re the only Arctic state, of course, Alaska. So we feel the impacts more than any other state, up there with the changes in climates. And certainly, it is apparent. We have erosion issues. And we have melting sea ice, of course. So, what I’ve done up there is form a sub-cabinet to focus solely on climate change. Understanding that it is real. [...]
You know there are – there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that we’re dealing with now, these impacts. I’m not going to solely blame all of man’s activities on changes in climate. Because the world’s weather patterns are cyclical. And over history we have seen change there. But kind of doesn’t matter at this point, as we debate what caused it. The point is: it’s real; we need to do something about it.
Palin on Contraception
Well, I am all for contraception.
Palin on Abortion in Cases of Rape
I’m saying that, personally, I would counsel the person to choose life, despite horrific, horrific circumstances that this person would find themselves in. And, um, if you’re asking, though, kind of foundationally here, should anyone end up in jail for having an … abortion, absolutely not. That’s nothing I would ever support.
Palin on Evolution
Oh, I think it should be taught as an accepted principle. And, as you know, I say that also as the daughter of a school teacher, a science teacher, who has really instilled in me a respect for science. It should be taught in our schools. And I won’t deny that I see the hand of God in this beautiful creation that is Earth. But that is not part of the state policy or a local curriculum in a school district. Science should be taught it science class.
Palin on Homosexuality
But as for homosexuality, I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions that they make in their adult personal relationships. I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years happens to be gay, and I love her dearly. And she is not my “gay friend,” she is one of my best friends, who happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice that I have made. But I am not going to judge people.
Thanks for speaking up on this. What an outrage for Couric to be awarded for her hatchet job.
I live abroad with no TV but I remember reading all about Sarah’s supposedly horrific performance on the Couric interviews. I waited until they were all done and watched all on the internet and I didn’t understand what was so terrible. It made me think people thought it was terrible b/c the media told them and spun it to be so terrible. The media has so much power to manipulate. I think it is time we let the media to know to lay off Sarah and other women politicians. Enough is enough!
Someone please tell the news reporter (sic) to cover up.
I do think the media has been unfair to Sarah Palin. But, honestly, her answers that you have posted in the partial transcript above are totally ridiculous, hateful, and ignorant. Is she saying that there are no double standards when she says that “women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed” ? Is she saying that the fact she doesn’t want to put a rape victim in jail for having an abortion make her reasonable on that issue? Is she saying that the laws on the books for equal pay for women are effective? Obviously, in the case of Lily Ledbetter they were not. Is she saying that she likes gay people, but just doesn’t want them to have equal rights? How could any self-respecting homosexual be Sarah Palin’s “friend.”
I spent a lot of time defending Palin during the election, but I think I’m coming to terms with that fact that she really is an awful choice. There are better women to promote and encourage out there and I’m gonna focus my energy on them.
Jane that is a totally fair response. If you don’t agree with her on issues, you don’t need to vote for her. But she deserves to have a voice on the issues for voters to decide – not cut and spliced to diminish her.
Certainly, IMO, this ain’t journalism.
Oh, who cares what TV news reader gets an award? It’s all theater anyway. It’s curious to me that that people still believe political commentators have anything to do with what does or doesn’t appear on TV.
As to the underlying agenda, look for Palin Derangement Syndrome to continue. The patriarchy in this country is terrified of Governor Palin. Can you imagine the titanic power shift if rational, practical women on the left and right were ever to come together? Efforts to scare us back into our painted corners will intensify.
*****A
Thank you, Jane and Amy. I agree with Jane that Palin’s responses above are “totally ridiculous, hateful, and ignorant” and perhaps also a tad disingenuous as most anti-choicers don’t want to imprison the woman who had the abortion but rather the doctor who performed the procedure (’cause, you know, those evil doctors, and apparently the trial lawyers too, “take advantage” of all those poor, unsuspecting, naive women who don’t really know what they want or what they’re doing — of course, if Couric was any kind of journalist, she would have followed up by asking Palin if she believes that the doctor who performed the abortion or any of the clinic staff should “end up in jail” for helping a rape victim terminate her pregnancy), but I also agree with Amy that Palin “deserves to have a voice on the issues for voters to decide – not cut and spliced to diminish her”, and that those of us who disagree with her on the issues, don’t have to vote for her.
Jane and Sasha,
Nice! Very refreshing to hear criticism on Palin that does not take part in “she’s so stupid” hysteria, sexist insults or slander. Yes, let’s get back to the issues!
Thanks for re-posting this, Amy.
There remains a double standard. Palin is vilified for her personal beliefs against abortion, beliefs she has never acted on politically. However, pro-life Democrats are rarely criticized. In fact, Tim Kaine was appointed to head the DNC. What has Kaine said that is different from Palin?
Why is Palin attacked for having the same views on gay marriage that Biden holds and yet Biden is not called “ridiculous hateful and ignorant?”
Thanks for this true look at what Palin said. Women who go along with the male dominated program like Couric are a big part of the problem. I don’t respect her just as I no longer respect NOW. But we do have more power now to destroy the patriarchal media model by helping women to see they can download only the shows they want for free and they should no longer pay for their cable hookup. Take away the right of corporate media companies to determine what content comes into our private homes and put people like Couric and company out of business. They don’t exist in response to a free market they rely on gatekeeping other voices out and extorting payment for their channels by mandatory subscription. Even the OPTION of cable TV a la carte would kill their voice.
Yes, there are very much double standards for men and for Democrats (since they are the majority in power right now). One of the reasons, I think, people keep pounding on Sarah Palin is that they really just don’t like her. She has a down to earth, folksy way of communicating – which many people are just not used to. Of course, if she was a man, everyone would think “he” was warm, approachable, etc. Because she is a woman, the media considers her without real merit.
To some degree the postings here remind me of the meeting about women’s rights where Speaker Pelosi and Congresswoman Malone expressed the opinion that Sara Palin deserved what she got. She is a conservative Republican who has conservative Republican views. I happen to disagree with many of them. I do not think that means that she is a second-class citizen.
With regard to the statement, “…I believe that women certainly today have every opportunity that a man has to succeed and to try to do it all anyways.” Speaker Pelosi and the other high-ranking women in the Democratic Party seem to agree with her.
I totally agree with yttik. Why is it okay for Kaine to be antichoice and let it affect his governing but not okay for Palin to be antichoice personally. Can anyone point to anything she’s done as governor to indicate she’s antichoice? I can think of a time when she specifically didn’t let her personal beliefs affect her decision making. She appointed a prochoice women to AK supreme court. Who has Kaine appointed? He signed a bill that would allow license plate fees go to fake clinics. I’d like to see a comparison of Palin’s and Kaine’s record.
It is an overstatement to call any of Palin’s remarks in this post “hateful”.
She talked plenty of rubbish with Couric. The evidence is there on Youtube – you can even watch Tina Fey repeat THE EXACT WORDS and see how ridiculous they are.
Couric, what a sell out.
Sad, isn’t it. All the people Palin, in a humane and principled way, refused to judge are busy judging her in a cruel, bigoted way. And they call themselves liberals and award themselves prizes for their biased and vicious misrepresentation of the truth. Handy dandy, which is the freeper, which is the democrat? Both sides use the same vicious and twisted tactics: it’s the ending of Animal Farm come true.
But look how hard it has been…. for people to have such a dialogue as this. About issues. Abortion. (Yes the same as Tim Kaine except that Palin never legislated on abortion) Gay rights. (Pretty much the same as Biden and Obama, no?) Palin on contraception. Talk of condoms, yes!
Sad that we have spent so much time with nonsense like Palin mentioning the geography of Alaska – (somehow making her stupid). Nonsense. Embarrassing.
Wouldn’t it have been nice to talk about the issues… the real issues. Honestly, I don’t even know Biden’s record because the media never gave us a chance to get to know him beyond…”Oh, that’s just Joe. But he’s brilliant!”
Nonsense.
YES!!!! That’s exactly it. It took me two years, but I finally convinced my family to give up cable, which we did last week. We traded our $75 cable bill in for a $16.99 Netflix fee. I refuse to be held hostage in my time or extorted in my money by such misogyny-peddling corps any more!
And bullshit. Obama had his own stumbles with geography, including thinking there were 57 states, and there was not a peep from the MSM or those supposedly consistent liberals Glenn Greenwald keeps yammering on about.
Her exact words were never aired, so there is no YouTube of it. If you want to see the hit job splicing Couric and her team did, then sure. But thank you for exhibiting Palin Derangement Syndrome. We needed a case study.
Pay attention, class. Note the all-caps-yelling and the dismissal of “rubbish” and “ridiculous.” I don’t know if VJ is male of female, but the existence of PDS speaks to the level of awareness on the left regardless of gender. It’s apparently exactly the same as it on the right, with troops and talking points, and pearl clutching, and spittle spewing.
I myself dream of a nation of free-thinkers who question everything. Is that really too much to ask? Ah, well, back to work.
thanks for posting her actual answers. I will send this part of the interview around as far as I know.
and thanks to all the fine commentators (yttik, john, briar, ali and annabelle) who showed the double standard for Kaine, Pelosi and Biden.
“A nation of free thinkers who question everything” that’s what I ask for.
Congratulations Anna Belle. Don’t forget PBS, Nature of Things (from CBC in Canada), Nature, and other decent and thoughtful programming and videos which can be streamed sometimes, and always borrowed from your library, or rented and purchased. Both PBS and CBC have online stores.
Many libraries have streamed movies and DVD programming too. Check out here:http://www.overdrive.com/
I watched Namesake last week. Free, online, streamed through Overdrive and my library.
14 yrs. without tv.
Yes, this quote by Anna Belle stood out to me, too.
“I myself dream of a nation of free-thinkers who question everything. Is that really too much to ask?”
Exactly.
I find it unfathomable that Couric should receive The Cronkite Award for this butchering job (Walter I’ll bet is turning over in his grave)
She most definitely should not have received that award. By the way, I believe that Walter is still alive and kicking in his 90s.
I am a bit confused: the answers given in this transcript seem to match (or even be shorter than) the answers shown in the actual interview. What was it exactly that was cut, or edited out, that significantly changed Gov. Palin’s answers?
There remains a double standard. Palin is vilified for her personal beliefs against abortion, beliefs she has never acted on politically. However, pro-life Democrats are rarely criticized.
Actually, if anything, I’m tougher on anti-choice Dems than anti-choice Republicans. I loathe Reid, Casey, Kaine, et al (in fact, one reason I’m furious with the Democratic Party is their increasingly frequent backing of candidates like these) and you’ll never catch me trying to excuse or minimize their hateful positions. As far as Palin’s position on abortion is concerned, she’s usually careful to discuss the issue in a way that makes it difficult to ascertain whether she’s just talking about her personal beliefs or public policy/legislation. The anti-choice crowd is sure she’s one of them (and she’s done nothing to disabuse them of that notion), but since “journalists” like Couric won’t ask the right questions, there may be room for doubt in some people’s minds. I do give Palin credit for not reducing access to abortion in Alaska though it isn’t like she’s had too many opportunities to do so: Alaska has a strong libertarian streak (there’s an explicit right to privacy in the state constitution and abortion was legal in Alaska even before Roe v. Wade legalized it nationwide) and most anti-abortion bills die in the state legislature, never making it to the governor.
In any event, her position on abortion is far from my only problem with Palin’s politics. The main reason I would never vote for her is her dreadful record on environmental issues, especially wildlife and habitat protection, but I strongly disagree with her on so many things: embryonic stem cell research, parental notification laws, hate crime legislation, the Ledbetter Act, health care, school prayer, school vouchers, anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment, Iraq, etc., etc. I’ll defend Palin against sexist attacks and misrepresentations of her positions, but I cannot and will not defend her actual positions. That doesn’t mean I’m “vilifying” her or treating her like “a second-class citizen,” nor am I holding her to a higher standard than Democrats.
Believe me, if a Democrat had announced that he’s for “equal pay for equal work” but against the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, I would consider that a ridiculous position. If that Democrat then attempted to justify his position by claiming that the laws currently on the books are sufficient to protect women from being “discriminated against in the workplace in terms of anything, but especially in terms of pay,” I would be forced to conclude that he’s either ignorant of the US Supreme Court decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, or that he’s being dishonest. And if that Democrat then added that the Ledbetter Act was also a bad idea because it would enable trial lawyers to “take advantage of women who were many, many years ago who would allege some kind of discrimination,” I’d call him on the patronizing, sexist implications of that statement. Funny thing is, if it had been a Democrat who’d said those things, most people here would have absolutely no trouble agreeing with me that his position is ridiculous, ignorant, disingenuous, patronizing, etc.
Sasha, CA:
A well thought out post and no doubt sincere. I will not take exception to this latest post.
In my experience words such as “ridiculous, hateful, and ignorant”, when used repetitively by a group of people serve the purpose of branding another person, or group of people as despicable. I have been listening to this relentless campaign of Palin bashing with the same sense of discouragement that I have listened to the relentless campaign of Clinton bashing for more than 15 years now. I still do not believe that Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster murdered or that she is a closet racist.
Meanwhile, just as I expressed myself elsewhere prior to the election, I hold the following position – Sara Palin’s citizenship is identical to Barack Obama’s citizenship and it was not actually an offense against either God or Country for her to accept the nomination.
By the way, I disagree with Palin on most issues.
Sasha,
Well, Palin vs. Kaine – it’s not a double standard for you but it is for most Americans!
But really I appreciate your comments about Sarah Palin. A lot. For some reason when I stood up against the sexism that was thrown at Sarah Palin, everyone was convinced that I was trying to get them to like her. I was not. I don’t care if people like her or not. I only care that Sarah Palin is fairly represented and not attacked on sexist, slandering and violent terms.
I love that you critique her on the issues! And I mean real issues, not made up ones. If people had evaluated her as you have and are doing now this could have been (in part) a campaign with wonderful discourse. Instead, I got from friends and family – she’s an idiot! She has a head full of rocks! She’s an ignoramus with a pregant daughter! I hear that Bristol is Trigg’s Mum! I can see Alaska from my house! Her 150K wardrobe! Plus they repeated all the slander – the rape kit, the abstinence ed. story, etc. etc.
How did this happen? Sasha, from your evaluation it seems that there are a lot of things that would keep progressive women from voting for Sarah Palin. Why didn’t progressive women talk about these things? And why didn’t the media engage in meaningful discourse on these issues?
A few ideas:
- They didn’t think Americans would follow the discussion and so they had to hit lower. Much lower. Humiliate her. Even if lies were spread. Even if it got violent and sexist and hurt all women in the end.
- Even though many progressive woman might disagree with her on some issues many conservatives and moderates might find her appealing. Also, some progressives might find her Alaska record compelling, as well. So if Americans got to know her, really got to know her… they might like her.
Which is it?
Finally, you are right on another level about Katie Couric. Her interview was horrible. Especially her follow-up questions. Why not ask her… so, Governor, would you ever legislate your pro-life stance? And follow up with questions about Fair Pay. Instead we got “What magazines do you read?” When I heard that question I was embarrassed. Embarrassed for Katie Couric whom it seems asked a 13 year old to compose this question. If I were a Governor or Senator and anyone asked me that question I would feel totally condescended to. I’m sure Obama would have felt that way if that were an interview question by Sean Hannity. And apparently, Palin was offended, too although the media marketed it as proof of her stupidity.
Ugh… American discourse. Embarrassing.
For those of you who don’t know yet; it has not gotten much attention in the MSM, Sarah Palin has recently appointed a pro-CHOICE judge to Alaska’s supreme court. Obamabots who let themselves be propagandized by the medias suggestions that Palin would endanger a womens right to choose, get a little crazy(er) when I enlighten them to this recent appointment by Palin. I suggest all of you rub it in when you come in contact with a “patriarch enabler” who drank the Kool-Aide. Its fun to hear their responces.
I just watched the video…. I have no idea how people thought she was stupid from the video. It’s interesting to see what they cut out, though.
For some reason when I stood up against the sexism that was thrown at Sarah Palin, everyone was convinced that I was trying to get them to like her. I was not. I don’t care if people like her or not. I only care that Sarah Palin is fairly represented and not attacked on sexist, slandering and violent terms.
I know what you mean. Most of my friends started out supporting Edwards or Kucinich, and when those two dropped out, the majority threw their support behind Hillary though a few started backing Obama. In the general election, nearly all of my friends and family voted for Obama although most were, at best, lukewarm about him. I had predicted that McCain would pick Palin and was pleased when he did, but I was totally unprepared for the reactions of many of my friends and other so-called progressives. I couldn’t believe some of the same people who’d been exasperated with the ridiculously biased, sexist coverage Hillary had been receiving were now sending me links to dKos diaries speculating that Palin had faked her last pregnancy to cover for her daughter, circulating emails detailing her “far right, extremist” positions (the majority of which were lies, distortions, and exaggerations), and cheering on pundits who proclaimed that, as the mother of an infant with special needs, she had no business running for VP. While not all of our friends joined in the Palin bashing, my SO and I were the only ones who routinely spoke up to defend her against sexist attacks, correct misrepresentations of her record or positions, and point out double standards. Consequently we were often accused of backing Palin politically, trying to drum up support for her candidacy, and wanting to see McCain win — as if those were the only possible explanations for why progressive feminists would object to the way Palin was/is treated. Sad!
For those of you who don’t know yet; it has not gotten much attention in the MSM, Sarah Palin has recently appointed a pro-CHOICE judge to Alaska’s supreme court.
True, but she didn’t have much of a choice: Alaska’s constitution mandates that an independent panel, the Alaska Judicial Council, evaluate judicial appointments and submit a list of potential nominees to the governor when a position on the court needs to be filled. The governor isn’t allowed to select a candidate whose name is not on that list, and in this case the AJC presented Palin with just two nominees — and they were both pro-choice.
Now, it’s true that the conservative Alaska Family Council thought attorney Eric Smith was the lesser of the “two evils” and asked Palin to pick him over Judge Morgan Christen, the woman who had served on the board of Planned Parenthood, but that wasn’t going to happen because Smith is an environmental lawyer who has been fighting to get Beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet listed as an endangered species and that’s something Palin is vehemently opposed to. Her office released a statement explaining it this way: “Governor Palin’s choices were either a liberal or an independent. She went with the independent.”
And her nominee for State Attorney General is pretty horrifying–he apparently hates gay people and doesn’t seem too fond of women or minorities either.
Sasha, CA:
Excellent points, well researched. Thank you. She is a conservative Republican representing the people of a conservative state.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama is the President of the United States and Sara Palin is the Governor of Alaska. I am more concerned about the things that this President is not doing than I am about the things that the Governor of Alaska is doing.
And her nominee for State Attorney General is pretty horrifying–he apparently hates gay people and doesn’t seem too fond of women or minorities either.
Yes, Wayne Anthony Ross, Palin’s pick for Attorney General, is indeed a total disaster. Not only is he anti-Native, anti-black, anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-feminist, and anti-environmental protection, but he’s also a men’s rights activist who’s made a career out of representing fathers who refuse to pay child support and fighting restraining orders by accusing domestic violence victims of lying about being abused. He allegedly made the following statements in a speech in front of a father’s rights group back in 1991: “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouths shut.” Now, to be fair, Ross denies having said those things, claiming, “I don’t talk like that!” (I would have preferred a denial that clearly rejected the ideas expressed by those two statements, even something as brief as “Those aren’t my beliefs,” or “I didn’t say those things because I don’t think that way”). Don’t know how Palin reconciles this appointment with her feminism.
We have heard just about enough “allegedly” regarding Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Do you think you can find a source for this? If not I think you shoudl retract it. No matter what kind of jerk we *think* he is.
“He allegedly made the following statements in a speech in front of a father’s rights group back in 1991: “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouths shut.”
Do you think you can find a source for this?
Of course — the source is Leah Burton, daughter of Alaska’s former Commissioner of Public Safety, Richard L. Burton, veteran lobbyist for domestic violence and child welfare issues, and author of the book “TheoPalinism – The Face of Failed Extremism”. You can read the letter she sent to the Alaska State Judiciary Committee here.
Update: I just saw the letter Ross sent to members of Alaska’s Legislature in response to Burton’s letter in its entirety, and I was pleased to find that he does reject the ideas expressed by the two statements he allegedly made: “I don’t believe in that! I totally abhor such a thought and I totally reject it!” He also says that he has reason to believe that he may have had an imposter, a member of the father’s rights group mentioned by Burton, so that it may very well have been this imposter who uttered the remarks Burton heard. Nonetheless, some aspects of the letter, particularly the parts about domestic violence, are quite troubling.
Anyone who writes a book titled ““TheoPalinism – The Face of Failed Extremism” automatically sounds paranoid and suspicious as well as likely to smear-monger Palin and anyone near her. I looked up Ross earlier this week, and I found most of the stuff you’ve said except for Burton. When I saw all that nasty stuff he supposedly said, I honestly could not believe Palin chose him. From the nasty quotes, it sounds like he would be Palin’s worst enemy instead of best ally. It is either a bunch of outright smears or a greivious error on Palin’s part.
btw, I think Palin has a common interest in appointing Morgan Christen as a judge. I think these state all of Palin’s reasons for appointing Christen.
http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.....038;type=1
From the page, it states that Christen won numerous awards. Christen has “previously served on the boards of the United Way of Anchorage, and of Big Brothers/Big Sisters. A past president of Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers, she has also won the Anchorage Chamber’s Light of Hope award for helping Alaska children in 2004, and won the Anchorage Chamber’s Athena Society Award in 2006″
Anyone who writes a book titled ““TheoPalinism – The Face of Failed Extremism” automatically sounds paranoid and suspicious as well as likely to smear-monger Palin and anyone near her.
No question, Burton is clearly not an unbiased observer (IMO her book is very unfair to Palin and she’s flat out wrong about Palin being the “poster girl” of the dominionist movement; many dominionists don’t even like Sarah and actually consider her a threat), but to just make up a story like this . . . I don’t know. We are talking about a guy here who called gay people “degenerate” and “immoral”, who railed against naming an Anchorage street after Martin Luther King Jr. on the grounds that King was a “communist subversive”, who believes that Alaska Natives’ desire to hold onto their way of life is disloyal and even treasonous, who has applauded anti-choicers efforts to terrorize abortion providers in Alaska, and who criticized a film about domestic violence for not focusing on men who are abused by women and for neglecting to mention that women seeking domestic violence protective orders sometimes lie about being abused because they “want to use the process as a sword rather than as a shield”. Burton may or may not be telling the truth, but I think Ross is a terrible choice regardless.
Gov Palin is also backing a bill (that the Senate is resisting) that would require parental notification and consent before young women under 17 can have abortions, which is problematic to say the least.
I would also take anything said by Burton with a grain of salt, but even if she made everything up, Sasha is correct in saying that Ross is a terrible choice.
So at the Cronkite awards, supposedly organized to celebrate free speech, Jon Ziegler, author of Media Malpractice is rouged up, and handcuffed a removed from the area in front of the building where he was protesting
meanwhile about the tea parties
Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls the Tea Party protesters “despicable.” But not a word about the disgusting sexual jokes aimed at Tea Party supporters.
Good news — the Alaska Legislature has rejected the confirmation of Wayne Anthony Ross, MRA and homophobe, for attorney general, and the vote wasn’t even close: 23 for and 35 against. I especially applaud the nine Republicans — which included the Senate president and the House speaker — who crossed party lines to vote with Democrats.
I too think that’s good news. And still reject your source.
“But not a word about the disgusting sexual jokes aimed at Tea Party supporters”
I think the next action alert should target the people who made those disgusting jokes.
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