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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Top 5 Palin Scandals
http://www.newsone.com/elections/article/top-5-palin-scandals
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.
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.
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...
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?