I honestly don't get this big "Boo Hiss" about Politico.com.. Read this.

[Perky]

Palin's source
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

<[div class="excerpt">Thomas Frank noticed in the Journal today that Sarah Palin used an odd source for a quote in her announcement speech attributed only to a "writer."

"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," she said, drawing from a once-powerful, now forgotten mid-century conservative columnist named Westbrook Pegler.

It's an odd source because Pegler, who moved further right as his career went on, ended up very, very far out. Frank notes that he talked hopefully of the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt.

He was also known for what Philip Roth described as his "casual distaste for Jews," which had become so evident by the end that he was bounced from the journal of the John Birch Society in 1964 for alleged anti-semitism. According to his obituary, he'd advanced the theory that American Jews of Eastern European descent were "instinctively sympathetic to Communism, however outwardly respectable they appeared."

It's unlikely that Palin wrote the speech or dug up the quote, though it's possible. The line does come from a strand of conservative populism that isn't particularly native to McCain or his usual rhetoric: The only other source for that Pegler easily available online is a 1990 book by Patrick Buchanan.

In any case, it won't calm Ed Koch any.

(h/t TPM)

[BlooInBloo]

1. That's ok. A lot of people never get a LOT of things.. No matter how many times they're told...

It's just the way it goes.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/30/allen/index.html

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/27/politico/

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/18/beltway_wisdom/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=greenwald+politico+drudge&btnG=Search

[Jane Austin]

2. "We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," she said,

I came from a small town.

These days small towns suffer from a lot of meth labs and teen-aged huffers.

[Perky]

3. Ok so Greenwald does not like them. and he works for the competition

got anything better. than one person'sc competituvely charged opinion

[BlooInBloo]

5. (shrug) Yah - I don't believe what Olbermann says about Fox for the same reason....

Horse, meet water. Water, horse.


EDIT: Just don't complain about the MSM so long as you're part of the problem.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. THANK YOU! I post quite a bit from Politico. I realize its ownership...

and I "vet" each article as it comes, for bias (as I do from any source). Some stories are exclusive to them, and many are favorable to us. I've had Politico stories on the Greatest Page. I don't go there every day, but I see Politico linked at other sites I visit, and have gotten stories I'm very glad to have found.