Video: Burn a Quran Day! (Tickets on Sale Now)

A number of commentators have noted the use of anonymous sources in my article. I explained in the article why this was necessary, but let me amplify the explanation here.

After the 2008 election, Sarah Palin and her advisers decided that it was time to “go over [the] heads” of the media, as one of her former press aides told me, and, in effect, invent a new way of doing political business. Palin began using Facebook and Twitter to send messages directly to the public. At the same time, she and her staff made themselves virtually inaccessible to reporters. Palin, moreover, is the most powerful person in a sparsely populated, geographically isolated community. She has often used intimidation. Many who have been close to Palin say they are frightened of her. They claim they have seen her ruin reputations. To speak out against such a person in a small community is risky.

This reality presents reporters with a choice: either repeat the official statements and official facts that are made in Palin’s name, or find a way to report other information under the terms that sources will permit.

I made the latter choice—very cautiously. Forced to rely on anonymous sources for certain information, I made an effort to get to know those sources well, talking with them over periods of weeks or months. If I sensed that sources were motivated by the desire to attack Sarah Palin, I did not use the information they gave me. Those who told the most startling stories about Palin spoke not with glee or satisfaction but with trepidation and sadness.

mr.fusion Wed, Sep 8, 2010 1:12:11pm

OT but too pathetic to ignore

[Link: firedoglake.com…]

The Quitter sure loves the Benjamins, doesn’t she?

“Glenn’s coming to the Last Frontier! I hope my fellow Alaskans (and anyone visiting from Outside) will join me this Saturday, September 11, 2010, at Anchorage’s Dena’ina Center at 8:00 p.m. Glenn Beck will be there – you won’t want to miss it. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.”

You know, as cynical as I am, I never thought I’d see “9/11” and “tickets are available” in the same paragraph.

“We can count on Glenn to make the night interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than to gather with patriots who will “never forget.”

Really? There’s “no better way” to honor the victims of 9/11 than to charge people $225 for the pleasure of your company? None?

Obama will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon on Saturday; Vice President Biden will join in services at Ground Zero.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, Sep 8, 2010 1:19:47pm

re: #19 mr.fusion

You know, as cynical as I am, I never thought I’d see “9/11” and “tickets are available” in the same paragraph.

Word.

Escaped Hillbilly Wed, Sep 8, 2010 2:36:27pm

Funniest thing is…a lot of the supporters of this retard will find this video AWESOME and probably email it to each other and agree with most if not all of its sentiments. Humor is lost on some folks.

Escaped Hillbilly Wed, Sep 8, 2010 2:52:51pm

re: #7 Radicchio ad Absurdum

said in a news conference that while going through with the event could put “our young men and women overseas and America itself in greater danger than it was already,” he could not endorse censorship of the First Amendment, according to the Wall Street Journal.

From CBS news:
“In a strange way I’m here to defend his right to do that,” Bloomberg said, of Terry Jones, the pastor from Florida’s Dover World Outreach Church in Gainseville, Fla., who is behind the proposed rally. “I happen to think that it is distasteful…But the First Amendment protects everybody, and you can’t say that we’re going to apply the First Amendment to only those cases where we are in agreement.”
This is the same point I would make. Mayor Bloomberg has defended the right of the Muslim leadership to build their center near the World Trade Center sight that so many others objected to. He is simply applying his beliefs fairly. If freedom of speech and freedom of religion mean anything, they must be free to all even if we disagree with them. I would make the counterpoint that having the right to do something doesn’t mean you should. And he said much the same.

Eclectic Infidel Thu, Sep 9, 2010 8:20:29am

…[t]hanks to Fred Phelps, the inbred star of Christ’s sexual insecurity movement.”

Brilliant. Love it. Bravo.

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