http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_re_us/us_palin_ethics_complaints_1
How about NPR? ABC? NBC? MCNBC? CNN? NYT?
Doubt it. Well, you might find it burried deep if you look close enough.
Cleared of 13? Wow? All 13? I never heard about the first 12!
Is it because she has a journalism degree? Or is it the fact that she worked her way up from school board to mayor to governor and not just as a wife of a president? Or is the idea that she doesn't back down and is "non-appoligetic" over her conservative views?
This is some news the mainstream media will not make well known.
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Interesting.
I am not a Palin fan. I began the last election leaning toward John McCain and her nomination was the final straw that pushed me the other way. However, I do think much of the press has been out to get her. If this story makes the papers at all it will be burried in the lower corner of page 26.
Being unlawful and unethical or two different things. She might have skirted laws but her lack of ethics is certain.
Thirteen! The newest Teflon politician!
I love the way she ires the politcal left. Makes me like her even more.
Juan, wanna site some examples? Provide some links?
How about the thing with her ex-brother in-law?
Don't know about the other networks, but I'm still holding out hope for MCNBC.
Seriously though, you can't really blame Katie Couric for Palin's own ineptness in front of a camera. Couric was lobbing her softballs - giving her the golden opportunity to clear up her "proximity to Russia" comments that were being mocked in the media - and all Palin did (and was capable of doing) was prove herself to be not only inarticulate, but way, way out of her league in seeking the Vice Presidency.
I hope you're not pinning your hopes on her has the savior of conservatism.
Now on the other hand, I must agree with you that the substance of this particular ethics complaint seems without merit, if indeed it was only about her using state staff to publish a press release announcing herself as McCain's running mate. You can tell I despise Palin, but I don't think that simple announcement was unethical. The fact that their governor is about to take (at least a 9-10 week long) leave of absense is something fundamental that the people of Alaska would need to know. The state press office absolutely should not be used to promote Palin as the right candidate, but it's obviously not going to ignore the fact that she would be stepping out of her day to day duties as governor for a while.
Juan,
Nothing ever came of it. That's the point. But because the media hasn't reported it, you still think its an issue. The media "forgot it" after they no longer needed to smear Palin.
Winston my point is that even though at the surface no laws might have been broken, she did cross an ethical line.