Well, now we know at least one reason why the New York Times is going broke. Five reporters had a hand in a weak attempt to pile on the Palin bad press bandwagon. Save for a few minor details, a twenty-year-old could have written it by reading a few blogs. If this re-hash is the best the Times can do, I guess she does have a future, after all.
This article was reported by Jim Rutenberg from New York and Serge F. Kovaleski from Wasilla and Anchorage, Alaska. Jo Becker reported from New York and Kim Severson and William Yardley from Wasilla and Anchorage.
Exactly, Dan, of course it would omit a great deal of facts, like the monetary conflict of interests of many local representatives who worked against the pipeline, this was reinforced
by the delegation's visit to Washington in March, where they seemingly resolved not to pass any bills of significance, or her work in deciphering the strings in the stimulus. Than again, this is the Times that took a week last
fall to confirm that Trig was her child, they're ahead of Sullivan by a year.
Posted by: narciso | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 08:40 AM
Man the batteries! Retreat to the bunkers! The NY Times has an article on Sarah Palin and the Times is firing from the Grassy Knoll and Area 54!
Okay, calm down people. The Times article is, in fact, quite sympathetic to Palin and seems to parrot almost completely the meme coming out of this blog and its commenters: Palin was a victim. But the problem with that meme is that it is not the final chapter. That chapter, of course, is that Palin quit because she couldn't handle the pressure and thus, could not manage her affairs. Here is a key quote in the Times article from Fred Malek, a friend and political mentor to Palin and a key Republican operative:
"In early June, when Ms. Palin visited Mr. Malek in Washington, “My sense was she was very unhappy with the multiple tugs, pulls and pressures in her life, that her family life was not even close to what she regarded as acceptable,” he said, adding, “she just had a dissatisfaction with the way the job had developed.”"
So as shown by the reference below, unlike every other governor who had problems but no sex scandal, she just quit:
"At the governor’s Anchorage office, staff members are struggling to roll with Ms. Palin’s surprise announcement. Last week, a clock on the wall continued its countdown. Under a “Time to Make a Difference” placard, the clock ticks away the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the scheduled end to Ms. Palin’s term. As of Friday, it had 513 days left. “I don’t know how to reset the darn thing,” David Murrow, a spokesman for the governor, said earlier in the week."
Posted by: wally sandaver | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 01:44 PM
Serge F. Kovaleski...
palin-"i can see a russian from my house."
Posted by: mark l. | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 03:53 PM
That thought didn't occur to me Mark, I pointed out some of the details she had been working on at the time.
Posted by: narciso | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 04:17 PM
The New York Times has become a NATIONAL ENQUIRER TRASH SHEET.
I would even use it to wipe my *** on much less read anything they have to say.
They have become lower that low. If I click on an internet article that opens up as them I just close it. Have no use for them and a few others as well.
Maybe General Electric will buy them up also. They seem to have their hands in all sorts of pie these days. Obama and company love GE.
Posted by: WBestPresidentEver | Monday, July 13, 2009 at 10:18 PM