Fox 'News' Scrubs Story on Conservatives 'Questioning Palin Heft'
AP Article Detailing a Number of Criticisms of the Republican Veep Nominee Was 'Top Story' at FNC Website, Only to Suddenly Disappear
Copy of the Story, as Killed by the 'Fair and Balanced' Propagandists, Reposted by The Brad Blog as Courtesy to Confused FNC Readers...
We were surprised as anyone to see this listed today at Google News...
We were somewhat less surprised when we clicked on it to find the page it linked to was now an error page at the Fox "News" website, reading...
You've requested an America's Election HQ page that cannot be found. The page you are looking for may have moved or it may no longer be available. We apologize for the inconvenience.
To confirm the page actually existed at one time, we also searched over at Yahoo News and found the similar...
That link also led to an error page at Fox "News", even though, according to the URL, the article, for a moment at least, had been one of their top stories. As it was an AP story, perhaps it was part of an automatic feed that made it's way onto FNC's site, until the "fair and balanced" network website editors noted it, and decided it needed to be spiked immediately.
After searching and searching at their website for the original article, perhaps under a changed headline, we came up with little, other than a story headlined: "Analysis: Pressure Builds on Palin Ahead of VP Debate" found not in a search, but in a sidebar list of "Most Read" articles over there.
While that article had a reference to the crushing call for Palin to drop out of the race, as seen in a National Review column by conservaitve Kathleen Parker, which The Brad Blog noted on Friday, it began with a few shots at Democratic Veep nominee Joe Biden who, Fox says, "spent the past week tripping up his own campaign -- bungling facts on the Great Depression and even criticizing a Barack Obama ad" before going on to detail "Biden's gaffe-prone ways."
It was only, in the comments section for that "Analysis" piece, that we were able to find references to the spiked article, and finally, a commenter who posted a link to a copy of the original article -- which featured a number of devasting criticisms of Palin, from a number of conservatives -- as reposted elsewhere...
The same commenter, "ntak6090", then posted yet another link to the article as re-posted elswhere, at a site which re-posts a feed of all FNC articles. The comment included the chiding "Too late FOX... once you put something on the Internet, it stays on the Internet"...
As a courtesy to Fox "News" -- who must have removed the article because they are running short on Internet ink today -- and their faithful readers and viewers, we'll go ahead and run the complete story as well, as scrubbed from their website, right here...
Originally posted at The Brad Blog
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And since when do you people care about what conservatives have to say?
"you people" takes in a lot of territory, but IMO there's real interest here in what true conservatives think. The level of contempt for the present mismanagement may mask that.
Can't explain the website, but FOX heavily reported this on-air. I know, because I watch FOX most of the time and heard about it. A lot.
Yep. I also noticed this yesterday. I'm glad someone reported on it.
Imagine if Palin was a democrat. Fox would be having a field day with her scandals. They're even more driven by GOP talking points than they are ratings and juicy scandals
Top 5 Palin Scandals
http://www.newsone.com/elections/article/top-5-palin-scandals
Thanks for catching that. I must have tried that link like 5 times yesterday. You'd think that something on the 1st page of Google News / Category = Elections would have had enough hits to actually exist.
Thanks for this post. I, too, noticed this and made several comments here and on other sites urging someone to report on the story. Also sent an email to the folks over at Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, knowing his fondness for exposing the hypocrisy behind the "We report, you decide," claim of the FOXNews folks.
The great thing here, in my opinion, is that if this story gets any coverage, FOX will probably be forced into having to re-post the article (claiming it was some kind of server error), in which case, the controversy is sure to drive more readers to the article than would have read it in the first place.
Of course they realize that if there are indeed in the tank for McCAIN/PALIN they cant really tarnish her. I've been trying to flick over from time to time and see if they have had any coverage on the Couric interview or the church thing with PALIN and Im seen nada. NOPE, they have bearly touched the Couric interview, well in Fox News Sunday, but other then that, ha...Look CNN and MSNBC killed OBAMA even on Rev. Wright, They always bring up the so called BIDEN gaffes! So to call Themselves FAIR AND BALANCED...LOL
I flip over to Fox from time to time also and they never fail to frustrate me. I have yet to hear anything negative on McCain or Palin (probably so few and far between I just don't catch them). They are good for misleading stories on Obama that are not even mentioned anywhere else. I don't think that CNN or MSNBC hold back unflattering info on Obama. If it is true (not innuendo) I want to know about it. What gives with Fox???? They just ignore the cold hard fact that John McCain picked Sara Palin for purely political reasons and the Katie Couric interview proved that. Looks like so far Sara is in over her head. How can they call themselves "Fair and Balanced" ? It is a huge joke!!!!!! My only hope is that eventually their honest viewers will see them for what they are.
Fox News has honest viewers?!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/28/conservatives-begin-questioning-palins-heft/
yep it was gone, but there is a thing called a cache so just search the headline of the article and look at the cache of it to see it.
Here's just the article w/o all the google search boxes and fluff.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/browse_thread/thread/da503176236efa28?pli=1
Includes another section from Katie Couric's interview with Palin (the hits just keep on comin'!):
"Speaking this week with CBS’s Katie Couric, Palin seemed caught off-
guard by a very predictable question about the status of McCain
adviser Rick Davis’ relationship with mortgage lender Freddie Mac.
Davis was accused by several news outlets of retaining ties - and
profiting from - the companies despite his denials.
Where a more experienced politician might have been able to brush off
Couric’s follow-up question, Palin seemed genuinely stumped, repeating
the same answer twice and resorting to boilerplate language about the
“undue influence of lobbyists.”"
They won't let her go - she draws huge crowds and campaign $$$. If those dwindle, maybe...
Thanks for the link. I don't know why Faux News even imagines that they can hide things from the American people. We are too intelligent, resourceful, and determined to be tricked by censorship as demonstrated by the great folks in this thread. Obama '08
Fox News would make Orwell shudder in horror.
The Sun-Times endorsed Bush in 2000 and I have yet to forgive them for that.
LMAO! I love bloggers.
You missed one:
Roger Ebert had an editorial against McCain pulled from the Chcago Sun-Times as well!
Ebert: John McCain's bad manners - www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1190154,ebertmccain092808.article
Chicago Sun-Times, United States - 8 hours ago
BY ROGER EBERT Sun-Times Movie Critic I do not like you, John McCain. My feeling has nothing to do with issues. It has to do with basic decency. ...
Do the Sun-Times and Fox have anything in common?
Yeah I tried to find that too. Gone!
OK. I'm officially scared.
I found it here: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080928/COMMENTARY/809289997
Guess who's not coming to dinner
BY ROGER EBERT / September 28, 2008
by Roger Ebert
I do not like you, John McCain. My feeling has nothing to do with issues. It has to do with common courtesy. During the debate, you refused to look Barack Obama in the eye. Indeed, you refused to look at him at all. Even when the two of you shook hands at the start, you used your eyes only to locate his hand, and then gazed past him as you shook it. Click on the link to read the rest.
Thanks 4 the link! It was a SCATHing editorial...I LOVED it!
Sad thing was is that I keep encountering things on how Mc C's inability to look at Obama was a good thing. And how Obama kept looking at him in some weird sub-serviant fashion showed his in-experience. Apparently none of these people have taken a debate class or they would have realized how weak NOT acknowleding your opponent is since you seem to be avoiding him. I guess people just take away what they want from these things.
OUCH!
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