Sarah Palin and David Letterman

Greta VanSustern on Fox News showed the tape of David Letterman talking about Sarah Palin. I didn’t think that it was right, and I kind of felt that Katie Couric didn’t think too much of it either. I got this email, so I thought that I would post it.

Do you think that he committed a violation of the FCC? What are your thoughts on this? ------Trickyvikki

Subject: On Team Sarah: Not funny, David!

A message to all members of Team Sarah

Such hypocrites!

Two nights ago, David Letterman, in interviewing Katie Couric, described Gov. Palin as “the first vice presidential candidate that I found myself being aroused about.”

It is ghastly that this kind of discourteous, indecent talk should pass for conversational fodder — even on late night TV.

This violates CBS’s own “Program Practices” specifically states that: “The Program Practices editors review material for excessive or gratuitous violence, sexuality, nudity and inappropriate language. They ensure that character portrayals are sensitive to current ethnic, religious, sexual and other significant social concerns.” http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_network/page/program_practices

A violation? What do *you* think?

Well, don’t just think it! Make your voice heard.

Email the Federal Communications Commission!

Email fccinfo@fcc.gov, tell them your name, where you are from, and EXACTLY how you feel about Letterman taking indecent liberties with a dignified lady, mom, and governor on his show!

– Emily
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Sarah Palin and David Letterman

My response to an article that I found last night

I found this article while surfing last night, and here is my response to it. The writer forgot to tell everyone that Jim Martin is outspending on ads by about three to one.
During the election, he ran more ads than Saxby Chambliss, and they were pretty nasty. He is running one now that probably took Saxby Chambliss out of context by saying he didn’t know what a recession was. He just runs that one sentence twice in his nasty ad.

He has been running ads about the bailout, which I feel he is being a hypocrite about. Barack Obama supported the bailout, as did John McCain. The reason that I call him a hypocrite, is because he is now running ads saying he backs Barack Obama completely, but yet he ran ads against Sen. Saxby Chambliss running him down for voting for the bailout when Obama supported it.

Although I hate what happened to his daughter, Saxby Chambliss isn’t running the ad. It is a 527 group doing it.

Obama is even running radio ads for Martin. So there is nastiness on both sides. ——Vickie

Freedom’s Watch attacks Democratic Senate candidate whose daughter was kidnapped as being soft on crime.
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2008/ 11/ 22/ chambliss-martin-crime/



Freedom’s Watch attacks Democratic Senate candidate whose daughter was kidnapped as being soft on crime. By Amanda Terkel at 6:40 pm Freedom’s Watch attacks Democratic Senate candidate whose daughter was kidnapped as being soft on crime.» Yesterday, the struggling Freedom’s Watch released an attack ad against Georgia’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jim Martin, saying that he “failed to look out for Georgia’s families.” “First he actually helped block stiffer penalties for drunk drivers,” warns the voice in the ad, which echoes previous GOP ads.

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My response to an article that I found last night

How Obama got elected

Just think, these people canceled out your votes. Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it?======Trickyvikki

How Obama got elected

From top rival to top aide: The Clinton-Obama detente

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I have heard some speculation about why Obama would want Hillary Clinton out of the Senate. The speculation was she was block his health-care plans, and he wanted her out of the way.

Now, Obama will be her boss. I wonder who will boss who?-------Trickyvikki

From top rival to top aide: The Clinton-Obama detente
By Elisabeth Bumiller


New York Times

Posted: 11/22/2008 05:50:21 PM PST


WASHINGTON — The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic party and her younger male rival began at the party's convention this summer, when Sen. Hillary Clinton gave such a passionate speech supporting Sen. Barack Obama that his top aides leapt out of their chairs backstage to give her a standing ovation as she swept past.

Strategic move

Obama, who was in the first steps of what would become a strategic courtship, called afterward to thank her. By then, close aides to Clinton said, she had come to respect the campaign Obama had run against her. At the least, she knew he understood like no one else the brutal strains of their epic primary battle.

By Thursday, when Obama reassured Clinton that as secretary of state she would have direct access to him and could select her own staff, the wooing was complete.

"She feels like she's been treated very well in the way she's been asked," said a close associate of Clinton, who like others asked for anonymity because the nomination won't be formally announced until after Thanksgiving.

Few are predicting this new relationship born of mutual respect and self-interest will grow into a tight bond between the new president and the woman who will be the public face of his foreign policy, though some say it is not impossible. They argue that a close friendship between the two powerful officials is useful but not essential, and isn't a predictor of the success of the nation's top diplomat.

Intellectual bond

While James Baker was extraordinarily close to President George H.W. Bush and is widely considered one of the most successful recent secretaries of state, Dean Acheson was not a friend of President Harry Truman, and Henry Kissinger did not particularly like President Richard Nixon.

"Two of the nation's greatest secretaries of state in the modern period, Dean Acheson and Henry Kissinger, were not personally close but were intellectually bonded to their presidents," said Walter Isaacson, the author of a biography of Kissinger and the co-author, with Evan Thomas, of "The Wise Men," a book about America's postwar foreign policy establishment. "I think that Obama and Clinton could form a perfect partnership based on respect for each other's view of the world."

In the Obama-Clinton relationship, advisers say, the relatively smooth nature of their talks about the secretary of state job indicate that both, for now, have a working chemistry.

From top rival to top aide: The Clinton-Obama detente

U.S. Kills Al-Qaeda Suspect

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U.S. Kills Al-Qaeda Suspect
Strike in Pakistan Claims Fugitive Tied to '06 Airline Bomb Plot
By Candace Rondeaux
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 23, 2008; Page A14

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 22 -- A suspected al-Qaeda operative linked to a 2006 plot to blow up British airliners was killed Saturday in a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan, according to two Pakistani intelligence officials. At least four other extremist fighters were also killed.

The officials said the al-Qaeda suspect was Rashid Rauf, a man who held dual Pakistani and British citizenship. The attack came from an unmanned U.S. Predator aircraft, which fired at least two Hellfire missiles at a suspected Taliban compound in the village of Ali Khel in the restive tribal area of North Waziristan, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about missile strikes.

The dead also included at least three foreign fighters, the officials said.

Rauf, a former resident of the British city of Birmingham, was suspected to be the ringleader in an alleged al-Qaeda plot to blow up commercial jetliners flying from Britain to the United States. He was arrested by Pakistani authorities in Bahawalpur in August 2006 after British officials learned of the alleged terrorist operation, which authorities said included a plan to smuggle liquid explosives and camera flash detonators on board at least 10 airplanes. The plot led to widespread restrictions on items travelers could carry onto planes.

In London, a Foreign Office spokesman said British officials were investigating reports that Rauf had been killed but could not confirm his death.


Before his arrest, Rauf's alleged ties to the Pakistani terrorist group Jaish-i-Muhammad stirred strong suspicions among intelligence experts that he also might have had connections with rogue elements in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, also known as the ISI. Jaish-i-Muhammad, banned in Pakistan, has played a leading role in an ISI-supported proxy war with India over the disputed northern territory of Kashmir. The group is widely suspected to be behind the abduction and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.

Rauf's association with the group is thought to have begun around the time he married a close relative of the group's founder, Maulana Masood Azhar.

A Pakistani court dropped terrorism charges against Rauf in late 2006. Pakistani authorities, nonetheless, offered to extradite him to Britain in connection with the airliner plot. But suspicions about his connections to Pakistani intelligence agencies deepened after he escaped from custody last December. Pakistani security officials said Rauf slipped out of his handcuffs after police allowed him to stop at a mosque in the capital, Islamabad.

Rauf's attorney at the time, Hashmat Habib, said Rauf was subsequently taken into ISI custody. Until Saturday's strike in North Waziristan, Rauf's whereabouts were not publicly known.

Habib, reached at his offices in Pakistan, said he was aware of the reports but could not confirm whether Rauf had been killed.

The U.S. military has stepped up a campaign this year targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban havens along Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan. Military officials say the surge in activity has had a debilitating effect on militant operations in the region.

But the attacks have drawn criticism from Pakistan's top military officer, Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani. Kiyani, who formerly led the ISI, and other top Pakistani officials have said collateral damage and civilian deaths from the missile strikes could increase anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, a key ally in the U.S.-led war against Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan.

Special correspondent Shaiq Hussain in Islamabad, Pakistan, contributed to this report.

U.S. Kills Al-Qaeda Suspect

Message from The National Republican Trust

If you could help them out in any way, it would really be appreciated. ;)
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Message from The National Republican Trust PAC
From Scott Wheeler




Dear Supporter:D-Day has begun.

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Our new TV ad has begun to run across Georgia exposing Obama’s plans.

As you know, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is fighting to keep his Georgia seat in GOP hands.

It is critical he does so. Chambliss will be the key Senate vote in stopping Obama’s radical agenda.

But Sen. Chambliss faces an incredibly stiff challenge from his opponent Jim Martin.

Just last week Obama, Chuck Schumer and Washington Democrats poured almost $1 million into the state to defeat him.

They are bussing in thousands of “organizers” to snatch this election from the GOP.

This is why our campaign is so vitally important.

Fox News analyst Dick Morris says this election is vitally important to all of us across the country.

Morris says if Obama wins the Georgia seat, he will ram through Congress a radical agenda on taxes, guns, abortion — he can even shut down talk radio!

Dick Morris says we at the National Republican Trust PAC “are leading the fight to save Chambliss and keep Obama from getting a filibuster-proof Senate.”

Dick says this won’t be easy for Chambliss because the Obama camp has more money and they are experts at voter turn-out — the key to winning this race.

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Roger Ailes on FNC's 'Obligation' to Not Derail Obama Transition

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2008/11/21/roger-ailes-fncs-obligation-not-derail-obama-transition

This is nonsense. Fox has been the best cable news out of all of the rest. I just hope that the staff doesn't heed what Roger Ailes told them. I have noticed that some of them have stopped talking about Obama. They don't need to stop because they started in on GWB the day he got nominated and have only recently let up on him.

Roger Ailes on FNC's 'Obligation' to Not Derail Obama Transition
By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
November 21, 2008 - 12:36 ET

News Corporation executive Roger Ailes has told Los Angeles Times reporter Matea Gold that he has advised employees of the Fox News Channel that "all presidents deserve time to get their team on the ground and get organized" and that "we have some obligation in a new presidency not to attempt to destabilize it."

Via TVNewser (paragraph breaks removed):

Ailes responded to the report in the New York Daily News that he instructed FNC to tone down attacks on President-elect Barack Obama. He denied giving specific orders, but said he told staffers "all presidents deserve time to get their team on the ground and get organized." "We have some obligation in a new presidency not to attempt to destabilize it," he said. As for whether the big stars will heed the advice, he tells Gold: "Who knows? Most of them do whatever the hell they want."


What say you, reader? Is Ailes right to urge his staffers to not go full throttle at the Obama transition? Does his advice adhere to the "fair and balanced" motto or risk sending a pro-Obama message? If it is "fair and balanced," is that good journalism or a poor business model given the outright left-wing boosterism other networks, particularly MSNBC, have shown team Obama?

Roger Ailes on FNC's 'Obligation' to Not Derail Obama Transition

Was the Mainstream Media fair and balanced on the election?

You decide. Look at these links.


http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/11/03/cable-news-ratings-for-october-31/7471

http://www.journalism.org/node/13436

Was the Mainstream Media fair and balanced on the election?

How Obama got elected

Check out this site. It will make you sick to think that these people voted and canceled out your votes. howobamagotelected.com/

How Obama got elected

Second Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama

http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/Update/Update2008-11-12.htm

This site is taking up money to: "We are in the process of raising $90,000 to pay for the publication of the Open Letter and a room at the National Press Club to publicly discuss any response by Mr. Obama."

In our two prior articles we discussed our intention to publish a full-page open letter to President-Elect Obama in USA TODAY. In effect, the open letter would be a Petition for Redress of a violation of the natural born citizen clause of the Constitution (Article II, Section 1).

The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees a citizen’s Right to Petition officials of the Government for Redress (i.e., for a Remedy) of alleged violations of the Constitution. Inherent in the Right to Redress is the citizen’s Right to a response.

We are in the process of raising $90,000 to pay for the publication of the Open Letter and a room at the National Press Club to publicly discuss any response by Mr. Obama.

Time is of the essence. We would like to publish the open letter next week and hold the press conference at the National Press club one week later, in advance of the dates when the Electoral College’s state electors are certified cast their votes. If Mr. Obama is not able to prove his eligibility, the electors will have to cast their votes for someone else for it would be treason to the Constitution to cast their votes for a usurper.

The purpose of this update is twofold: (1) to provide the updated total of the funds received to date; and (2), to review some of the evidence.

Second Update: Open Letter to Mr. Obama