Your question as to why it's unfair that the AP is only factchecking Palin? Yeah, my response is that you should factcheck that claim before you make it. AP Fact Check - Health Insurer profits not so fat http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091025/D9BI4D6O1.html AP Fact Check - Obama having it both ways http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/25/politics/100days/main4891285.shtml AP Fact Check - Obama's Job Creation Claims Questionable http://www.foxnews.com/politics/200...mas-job-creation-deficit-claims-questionable/ AP FAct Check on Obama's Health care claims http://writewingpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/from-the-ap-fact-check-obamas-health-care-claims/ AP Fact check: Obama's informercial avoids budget realities http://www.nowpublic.com/world/ap-fact-check-obama-infomercial-avoids-budget-realities Nice try though. And by nice I mean embarrassing recitation of talking points.
This is it vlaurelio. How you define life is way beyond my understanding since you cannot understand the difference between opinion and an attack. I'll say this one more time. He's my President too. You don't own him. Whether I voted for him or not, he IS my president. And as such, I want him to look the best when he's representing us. And damnit, that was a rookie bow. Everybody saw it. His handlers did a piss poor job prepping him. Now, I could be wrong. Maybe it WAS our president's desire to bow so low to accent America's stature with Japan.
I was talking about books..... Me, embarrassed? Not at all, I read a news story and posted a question. What's so wrong with that?
I haven't bought Palin's book or plan to but I did catch the Oprah interview and Barbara Walter's interview. Leaving aside her politics for a moment I really don't understand why she is that popular. She didn't seem very coherent in both interviews. Her answers come off as rambling, shrill or self-pitying at times. Even her answers in regard to Katie Couric's question about what she read, a question I felt was somewhat unfair and disrespectful, still didn't come off that good. While she was expressing outrage she still seemed to stammer, "I read... magazines." She is good at throwing red meat out to extremists but other than that there doesn't seem to be much there.
Trolls seek attention/reaction. Palin doesn't exactly fit this mold. Especially having rockstar status amongst the RR.
The last book Obama wrote was in 2006, which appears to be prior to the AP beginning their "fact check" series. I know you got this talking point straight from the conservative blogosphere - hence the need to fact check it. Right wing whining about the press is suspect in general, and with regard to the AP - pretty much a joke.
Palin's book sparks attack on vegetarians Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has never made any bones, if you will, about her culinary preferences. She's a carnivore, a hunter and proud of both. So it's not really a surprise that her book, "Going Rogue," published today, extols the virtues of eating meat. "If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore," she wrote. "If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” But the former Republican vice presidential candidate did not stop there. “I love meat," she writes. "I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals -- right next to the mashed potatoes.” A vegetarian from Cleveland took issue with Palin. In a blog on the Examiner, Daelyn Fourtney wrote that Palin's remarks "will surely receive a chuckle and thumbs up from many avid hunters and steak house patrons. It is a sad statement on our society when we applaud those who refer to animals as the centerpiece of their dinner plate." Now, Fourtney is reporting that she has received a lot of hostile e-mails from conservatives assuming her to be a left-wing pinko. A sampling of her inbox: * “The liberal/socialist media elites are terrified of America's new Reagan and it's so much fun to see their PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) on display...including this Fortney writer.” –freeperjim “Politicizing Food now?...is nothing sacred? ... off, Alinksy Vegan Radicals.” – Tyler “You liberals and militant vegs. apparently need a humor transplant.” –Keith The Cleveland food writer -- in some quarters now known as the "Rogue Vegetarian" -- said her politics are separate from her eating habits. "I have chosen to live a vegetarian lifestyle because I believe in the sanctity of life for all creatures," she said. "Assuming that one is left or right based on what they choose to eat is a dangerous road to travel." Still, she said, she's not counting on a Christmas card from the Republican Party this year. -- Johanna Neuman Photo: Sarah Palin with a caribou she shot in Alaska. Credit: Associated Press her pilfered homer simpson quote aside, some stellar arguments from our 2012 republican nominee there...
