Just like dogs that merrily slurp vomit to the last chunk, bloggers at the Democratic party front group and Soros-funded Media Matters for America follow behind liberal media outlets, lapping up their latest noxious dousing of conservatives. Then with a satisfied smirk, Media Matters gloats “what vomit?” when conservatives complain about being puked on by the press.
The latest example of Media Matters’ vomit fetish is their defense of the attempted smear of Sarah Palin during her humanitarian trip to Haiti last weekend by the Associated Press and others as a hair-obsessed diva. The former Alaska governor, accompanied by her husband Todd and their eldest daughter Bristol, was a guest of the Rev. Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse.
A photo of Palin in Haiti transmitted by the AP bore the caption, “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, center, has her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center set up by the NGO Samaritan’s Purse in Cabaret, Haiti, Saturday Dec. 11, 2010. Palin arrived Saturday in Haiti as part of a brief humanitarian mission. Dieu Nalio Chery / AP.” The caption failed to note that the person fixing Palin’s hair was her daughter Bristol.
Outlets including USA Today, the Huffington Post, the U.K.’s Daily Mail and the Guardian, as well as liberal blogs and Twitterers keyed on the captioned AP photo to attack Palin as being more concerned with looking good for the cameras than the Haitians she traveled to help.
The Huffington Post: Reading the Pictures: Palin Does Haiti Cholera: How’s My Hair (and, Did AP Lend a Curl?). ”Damn right it’s revolting seeing Sarah getting her hair made up like this field hospital is her movie set…”
The Daily Mail: Ready for her close-up… Sarah Palin lands in Haiti (well, she wants to look just right for those poor cholera-stricken residents). The Mail snarked their caption of the AP photo, “So long as she brings the cameras: Sarah Palin has her hair fixed during a visit to a cholera treatment center set up by the NGO Samaritan’s Purse in Cabaret, Haiti, on Saturday.”
The Guardian led its article with the AP photo captioned, “Sarah Palin gets her hair fixed during a visit to a cholera treatment centre in Haiti,” followed by the lede, “Earthquake. Cholera. Political strife. And now Sarah Palin.”
An expose posted at Free Republic Sunday night called out the media for accusing Palin of bringing a hairdresser to Haiti started a firestorm that prompted corrections by the AP and Huffington Post.
Despite those corrections, in an entry titled, Palin’s media defenders attack AP over non-existent “hairdresser” slight , Media Matters blogger Eric Boehlert employed his by now familiar technique of dissembling and lying-by-omission, accusing conservatives of falsely charging the Associated Press with claims that Palin had brought a hair stylist with her to Haiti. At the same time Boehlert, citing the Free Republic article, ignored the media attacks on Palin based on the AP’s photo and caption.
“Here’s the problem: The AP never reported Palin brought a “hair stylist” or a “hairdresser.” Those phrases came from Free Republic. It’s true: Free Republic rushed into (sic) to defend Palin from the AP allegation that Palin had brought a “hair stylist” or “hairdresser” with her to Haiti.
“But oops! The AP never made that claim.”
But oops, Eric! Free Republic never made that claim about the AP. In fact, the writer of the Free Republic article, a co-author of this report, quoted the AP caption that said Palin “has her hair done” and wrote:
“The AP photographer who sent the caption would have known that it was Bristol Palin, but by not mentioning her the AP was able to do a media hit on Palin but still be able to claim they told the “truth” with the caption.”(emphasis added for Media Matters bloggers.)
That statement proved prescient, as Boehlert characterized the AP caption “accurate” even though AP had already run a correction.
By running the captioned “getting her hair done” photo of Palin with a two-person video crew seen prominently behind her, the AP created a meme that Palin was having her hair styled for the cameras while touring a cholera treatment facility.
AP did not have to use the words “hair stylist” or “hairdresser.” The photo frame and caption did it for them.
USA Today picked up the AP’s meme with an online article and photo published December 12 in the Entertainment section. USA Today rewrote the AP caption to include an extra dig at Palin:
“Husband Todd Palin looks on as his wife, reality TV star and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gets her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center in Cabaret, Haiti, Dec. 11, 2010.”
The photo led a brief item headlined Reality TV star, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin visits Haiti.
This paragraph from the brief USA Today article marked the third time Palin was dubbed a “reality TV star.” USA Today also accused Palin of getting “prepped for the camera shots.”
“USA TODAY’s Lorena Blas here, with celebrity news this Sunday afternoon. The former GOP VP candidate provided access on her tour only to the Fox News cable network, reports the Associated Press, which added that the reality TV star mostly avoided crowds and other news media. However, AP was able to take some photos as she was being prepped for camera shots.”
(For the record, Samaritan’s Purse set the rules for media access on the trip, not Palin.)
Comments by “mschultz2k” following USA Today’s article prior to publication of Free Republic’s expose perfectly illustrated the effect of AP’s photo and caption (bold face emphasis added for Media Matters readers):
“I find it odd that someone who is there to help the people is pimping (sic) before going on camera. It really isn’t about her and how she looks..or is it? I suspect the true motivation behind this trip was not so much her Christian duty (considering how much time she spends perpetuating hate) and more so a photo op to make her look Presidential. Most people who go to Haiti to help out aren’t getting hair and makeup before the cameras roll it’s about the Haitians who need the help. The photo accompanying the story speaks volumes.
“Opps [sic] .. should read “primping” but maybe it was a Freudian slip seeing as how she’s pimping out the Haitians to boost her image.”
SarahPalinUSAThis takes the cake. Really? MT @amandacarpenter: AP flubs Palin got “her hair done” in Haiti. Bristol helping mom out. http://bit.ly/hPWgycabout 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Retweeted by 100+ people
After being called out on Twitter by Sarah Palin, the AP issued a correction and a weak explanation:
“AP spokesman Paul Colford explained to The Cutline that it wasn’t “immediately clear” that the person photographed next to Palin was her daughter. “Once we figured out it was Bristol Palin,” he said, “we amended the caption accordingly.”"
AP photographer Dieu Nalio Chery was not kept away from Palin in Haiti. In fact, other photos by Chery were taken in close proximity to Palin. For AP to say they did not realize Bristol Palin was the one fixing her mother’s hair stretches credulity.
And though they initially cheered the AP’s hit on Palin, the Huffington Post was honest enough to at least acknowledge the photo was designed to give Palin bad press.
Notice of the AP’s correction was published “Mon Dec 13, 12:09 pm ET”. Four hours later, “December 13, 2010 4:39 pm ET”, Media Matters’ vomit sucker-upper Eric Boehlert proclaimed the AP innocent.
Now that’s dedication.
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And on we go. The Main Stream Media have made it plain that, even though their hero Barack Hussein Obama has let them down terribly, they're still "enlisted" in the Left's cause. They believe they can serve that cause just as well by denigrating and slandering popular conservatives as by hiding the details about a socialist president's associations and true convictions.
At some point, there will come a reckoning. I hope I live to see it.
People that sit around "writting" in their parent's basement have no idea about the power of the presentation and the good that comes of it. These people from Media Matters can't get past underwear in their attire yet they dare to critisize?
More important than hair and underwear is the exposure that Sarah and Franklin have given to the unfolding tragety. Write about that.
Did obama even make it over to haiti?
People need to understand that this is not going to stop. The left needs to have a villain to attack in order to foster the illusion that they are fighting for the little guy. This is important to their self-image and to the public image they wish to project. They must always view themselves as rebels fighting the establishment even after they became the establishment.
In the 80s and the 90s it was Reagan who they vilified and smeared without a lick of proof. In the 90s they added Limbaugh to their targeting list. In the past decade they have relentlessly and dishonestly attacked B.W. Bush. Now while they still continue to malign Reagan, Limbaugh and Bush they have a new favorite target to smear; Sarah Palin.
If they didn't have someone to hate they die of frustration. Keep exposing their lies.
Nauseating mental image there, but still accurate. Apparently, the press are scared to death that Mrs. Palin will run in the next election and win.
For any American aware, and sadly there's not many, when for example the big government-enabling Fed makes loans(?, at near zero interest) to news media outlets channeled through their corporate parent, we as Americans should look with skepticism at ANY reporting or lack thereof. When it comes to Palin, the apparent strategy is to administer death by a thousand cuts. Maybe off topic, I've wondered why there has been virtually no reporting of Lt. Col. MD Terry Lakin's court-marshal anywhere, save for WND?
Gee, life is like high school isn't it? The "mean girls" of the press take every opportunity to attack Palin because she isn't part of the "in crowd". (Can you me, Maureen Dowd?)
Because the malfeasant in Washington are more concerned with ORDER over the masses than truth. The whinning left would burn the country to the ground if the truth was known and acted on. I feel for this reason and this reason alone is why even conservatives remain silent. America is being held hostage by a godless and reprobate left.
He would have, but there was no one available for him to bow to.
Wasn't it Cindy Sheehan that was photographed kneeling at a soldiers grave with a hairstylist and make-up artist primping her for the cameras that were surrounding her? This is a scandal to them and that is not? Hypocrites!
There weren't any golf courses.
“AP spokesman Paul Colford explained to The Cutline that it wasn’t “immediately clear” that the person photographed next to Palin was her daughter. “Once we figured out it was Bristol Palin,” he said, “we amended the caption accordingly.”"
Uh huh, more like…. "once we realized we had spit on your dinner we took our sleeve and wiped it off…see….all better now"
……and you people sleep at night huh?
Lol. I said the same thing at about the same time you did. I won't steal your thunder.
Soon, fp. Soon.
And then didst the Kosholes and incestuous leftist bloggers and MSM talking heads came unto THE ONE and ask "Bam, how should we pray?" And the One said unto them "When you pray you shall do so in the words the Olberdouche hath given you.
"Oh Bama, who art the POTUS, blessed be thy name. Thy healthcare come; thy will be done — in the House as it is in the Senate. Give Sarah this day our daily smear. And berate us our trespasses, just as you befriend those who trespass against us. And lead us not into free market solutions but deliver us from PALIN!
For thine is the Congress … and the Courts and the sniveling, bootlicking media
Palin laughs at these idiots,the more they print the more stupider they look,
Except for people who will go to their grave believing every negative they read about Palin regardless of follow up information or retractions, no one would have heard or read Boehlert's cover up until posted here or elsewhere. Media Matters is not a serious source of information except for those who look for the equivalent of girly high school gossip to pass around to their own "crowd". The insiders smears that make everyone in the "crowd" giggle, and feel superior to the "others." Did you hear that Susie has herpes? Pass it around!!! Teeheehee.
Yeah, since Aristide left, there's no one in Haiti he can relate to.
The guy who shot up that Florida school board meeting yesterday lists MEDIA MATTERS as a link on his facebook page – all while railing against the evil rich and painting a V-for Vendetta sign on the wall of the boardroom before opening fire.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1000018900...
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/15/gunman-caught...
Ah, just shut up and eat the vomitus. You'll learn to love it, cause it comes from the mouths of the prettiest little hotties in the classroom!
After all, the leading news syndicate should not be required to verify and corroborate, especially when the "assumed" position is critical, damning, or volatile. Communicating with the photographer or any writer submitting information in the vicinity is way to much to be expected from a professional journalistic organization these days. Just go with the best angle for reaction. Retraction is an art form now.
Truth ? We don need no stinkin' truth………….
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire
Surely the left can fabricate such targets at will. The minions at some leftist blogs/sites/news outlets prove that every day. If not Palin, then Bachmann. If not Bachmann, then, etc.
With Palin there seems to be some deep rooted, nearly existential issue that causes such hysteria. It is amusing, and it is especially entertaining when the emotion is brought to the surface for all to see, for its true nature. Call it what you will, envy, jealously, hatred, revulsion, whatever. It has never had root in logic or rational behavior.
That's why I hope it continues. For a middle of the roader like me, it helps expose and explain as you point out. Just like the religious right showed their cards in the 90s, so do the most left of us now.
At first I was a little put off by the dogs to vomit analogy but that is exactly the only way to describe it…It immediately brought to mind Kathy Griffin and the hatred and negativity she spews to the left .. They line up with thier bowls eagerly awaiting the next regurgitation of her vitriol.
one of the reasons they don't mind issuing first false misleading captions, then quietly correcting them, is for internet searching. when one looks up on the internet, the false headlines still show up, and how many people will know this, and be able to know a later correction was issued? once the hit is done, the long term damage to the reliability of searching has just started.
You said it better than I could have.
*cheers*
"Eric Boehlert proclaimed the AP innocent"
Well then, that 's it … case closed !
Once again Eric takes reality into the swirling vortex of lunacy … pass the Kool-Aid please.
These frightened liberals sit around in a small circle wondering whats going to happen if the entire government goes conservative and the conservatives start to hold people accountable for their actions,what a day that will be,when the law is applied evenly throughout the country.The liberal circle is getting smaller by the day.
LMFAO……….so apropos!
PK..is the Kipling?
Excellent!!!
They believe they can serve that cause just as well by denigrating and slandering popular conservatives
It's easier to destroy than to create. To create something you need vision.
Yeah, what you said.
Lefties are so predictable and boring….
when Obwana killed the fly the headline should have been; President Commits Murder during Interview.
Leave Sarah alone you big lugs, you bullies, you pimps and whores. She's the one who is going to make this country look like America again. And you breast feeders of the Free Lunch Bunch…..be happy with your white bread bologna sandwich and shut up.
“Husband Todd Palin looks on as his wife, reality TV star and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, gets her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center in Cabaret, Haiti, Dec. 11, 2010.”
Jum to 2012: Wife, reality TV star, bimbo, self-obsessed egomaniac, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin still has far more intelligence, experience, skill, and "gravitas" than former President Barack Hussein Obama – otherwise known as America's Littlest Jughead Marxist.
Ditto on that, Sizemorew. And I had just finished a cheese omelet when that mental image popped up.
They do look stupidist.
I will never again read anything Media Madmen write without the mental pix of a dog scarfing up barf. Beautiful.
You're close….
Palin is in the "in crowd". She's the new hot chick that everyone wants to be friends with.
Maureen Dowd, Behar, Maher, Sorkin.etc. are the goth kids in the corner snickering, "she's so fake. I hate her."
Lefty Press: "Oh. my. god. She thinks she's like, so…hot, but she's totally not."
Palin: "Oh, wouldn't cha know it – my ding-a-ling hair clip was falling out, so my daughter fixed it before the darned thing smacked somebody in the face when I bend down to hug a small child."
L-Press: "Nuh-uh! We called it first! You can't change the story now, just because it's the truth! You're not the boss of us!"
Once Again: Momma Palin – 1, Adolescent Media – 0
I couldn't think of another word without cussing that describes these slanderous liberals.
George Soros stuffed like a sausage into an Stalin era Soviet style military uniform, grinning and holding the leash as his dog, a spectacled pug who looks much like Georgie and wears a blue doggy sweater with the name Media Matters emblazoned on it, scarfs up the barf at Georgies feet, noticeably missing the splatter on Georgies black polished boots.
"Come along Media" he bellows in a heavy Hungarian accent as he gives a tug on the leash, "Dare's plenty more where dat came from"
Just thought I'd color in the picture a bit and add some detail,….. so it never fades from your memory.
In Russia folks get their "news" from Pravda , here in the USA our Pravda is the AP . Only fools belive either
It should be obvious from the cumulative Lies our Old media Spews 24/7 just how badly America has been taken over by America's Enemies. Stand Ready. Freedom's Price is still blood. Mao does not give back power. I recommend
the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrtDmknIjhI
Ouch.
Since when is good grooming considered bad form? Other people DO have their hair combed in Haiti. Do you think the Haitians feel respected if Americans looking filthy and unkempt show up to help? My point is, in this photo. Palin was getting a quick fix from her daughter. NO comb or brush in sight. I knew it was Bristol just from looking at her. These people are not wearing designer social x-ray clothes or showing pretense.
From the AP on down, the reportage was snotty and took away from the plight of the people of Haiti who they purport to champion by mocking those trying to help the Haitians. No, it doesn't make sense and it is the emotional/mental stability of those reporters that is the story. Journalism is not this.
I liked your more stupider because they are stupid or stupidist.
Perhaps the lefties are saying that it is wrong for a daughter to show affection for her mother.
Very helpful. Guess that's why you call yourself GraficDav.
<grin>
ts all DADA obfuscation.
Why is the Department of Justice (and the FBI, and the DHS and the Federal Reserve) watching the clips below from LOWLY artist (because art doesn’t matter you see) Marc Rubin since, on the artist’s behalf, I have made available here WHAT THE PROGRESSIVE DON/T WANT YOU TO KNOW!
THE DADA MANIFESTO IS THEIR COVERT TALKING POINTS!.
Dada means Progressive. They are communists, socialists and anarchists. They build nothing. They destroy. They want to kill God and Liberty and Art. They want to rule the world. They are not fit to live on this earth God made”–(Salvador Dali as related to Marc Rubin in 1974)
WATCH RUBIN’S VIDEO ON DADA. IT WILL OPEN YOUR EYES! http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu
SINCE RUBIN HAS ALSO BLOWN THE LID OFF OF ISLAM AND ARABS WITH HIS ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO INTERVIEW http://www.marcrubin.com/judean-eve.ivnu THEY ARE DOUBLY THREATENED.
THESE LINKS ARE GOING VIRAL…SO I HAVE HOPE THE MESSAGE WILL GET OUT BEFORE THEY CAN SHUT DOWN THE MESSENGER
THESE LINKS WILL GIVE YOU CLEAR VISION
I'm confused.
Palin is accused of keeping much of the press AWAY in order to … get publicity??
Oh, and what was the value of those running shoes Michelle O wore while handing out goodies again?
Finally, that is one INCOMPETENT press photographer if he doesn't know the IDs of the principal people he is shooting!!
I would love to see a link to anytime that Sarah Palin has "perpetuated hate". The libs and progressives lie about her like that all the time simply because they don't like the message of smaller government, personal responsibility. I guess not having the taxpayer take care of the lib/prog couch potatoes is akin to "hate".
I love it when libs pull down their pants and show how pathetic they are.
Even with her arm covering her face I could tell it was her daughter.
GOD how they hate Sarah, and will stoop to any contrivance to take ineffectual swipes at her.
Sarah Palin is anti-matter to the Left. Simply by existing and drawing breath, she threatens their whole identity. She is the living, breathing refutation of their self-delusion that they are Champions of the Little People, who require their tender ministrations to simply survive in our corrupt, capitalist Amerikka. She threatens their entire reason for being.
… by a landslide, no less.
The left is that desperate to tear a person down? It's quite obvious that Palin is a bigger threat to these people then I had previously thought.
It is now official, if she runs in 2012 she will get my vote.
Anybody who poses that kind of threat to the liberal left has got to be good for the country.
He had to go to a party.
Your article: "Free Republic never made that claim about the AP"
Free Republic article: "That's right, what the Palin-hating AP and others fail to report is that the "hair stylist" is Bristol Palin." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2641666/...
*facepalm*
If you had simply written about how ugly it was for so many outlets to focus on her hair in the first place, it might have gotten more people to ask questions.
So, if you are in a third world disaster, you need to look the part? Obama golfs instead of leads and that is OK? Lets see Michelle go outside unkempt and see if the puke eaters say that she is saving time to take parental rights away from Americans! I am sure the first ho has her makeup artist always at hand!
AP is and long has been a commie tool, PRAVDA for the vomit eaters!
and they are getting stupider by the day.
He was on the golf four complaining about Bush. Jealous people always blame their betters for their own shortcomings.
That Fecal Matters Boelert is a lying punk! The left must be going out of its mind, Did you see SARAHS PRESS CONFERENCE IN HAITI? Someone looks like a leader and Presidential! You can find her press conferece, about 7 and a 1/2 minutes, on Conservatives4Palin,or Samaritns purse web-site. Check it out,pretty impressive!
Obama thinks Haiti is one of the 60 states.
Well, it looks like it was a good decision for Samaritan's Purse to have Sarah Palin on this trip to Haiti. I imagine this has brought them 10x the publicity of any other personality.
I'm sending Eric Boehlert a 4" straw to help him suck up all that vomit…licking has to be rough on his tongue! Oh, for any liberals reading this, that's not a 4" long straw…it's one EMT stick of conduit that is 10 feet long and 4 inches in diameter.
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