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MSNBC retracts Palin rumors; it was a hoax
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BoilerNLA Nov 13 2008, 11:43 AM Post #1
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feel free to rant... I agree the media needs to be held more accountable.

MSNBC Retracts False Palin Story; Others Duped
Network runs correction on air after reporting an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about Sarah Palin, information stemming from a hoax.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008



NEW YORK -- MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a FOX News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."
Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin -- not the FOX News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.

Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.

And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."

Stein later realized he'd been had.
"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment.
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Mr Gray Nov 13 2008, 11:46 AM Post #2
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not MSNBC....I thought they checked...and double-checked.
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The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism.
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sarah palin isn't dead yet?
Death to Signatures.
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sarah palin isn't dead yet?
nope...you didn't see her making cheese-dogs for her kids, dressed in a 3-piece woman's suit?
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The body knows what fighters don't: how to protect itself. A neck can only twist so far. Twist it just a hair more and the body says, "Hey, I'll take it from here because you obviously don't know what you're doing... Lie down now, rest, and we'll talk about this when you regain your senses." It's called the knockout mechanism.
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sarah palin isn't dead yet?
B'town,

If Palin is the walking idiot you think she is why are so worried by her. if she took down the McCain ticket not the RNC then she is done why the need to still attack her. If she is a talent I guess you Dems are concerned about her and want to destroy her. Very Interesting your claim she is a no talent dimb wit then why the need to attack. I think you realize that she is a talent
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It's clear Repubs have to compete against their Dem opponent AND the MSM. Nothing new here.
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sarah palin isn't dead yet?
B'town,

If Palin is the walking idiot you think she is why are so worried by her. if she took down the McCain ticket not the RNC then she is done why the need to still attack her. If she is a talent I guess you Dems are concerned about her and want to destroy her. Very Interesting your claim she is a no talent dimb wit then why the need to attack. I think you realize that she is a talent
i could care less about her. i don't think she's an idiot, but at the same time I don't think she's capable of making executive decisions. she fits well in the role she's currently in. anyways, the reason why I dislike her is her folksiness. it gets on my last nerves, from the way she talks to the things she says. i'm afraid of her in no way -- and I could care less if she runs in 2012. i was just hoping she'd fall into oblivion so i didn't have to hear her annoying ass accent anymore.
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I don't think she's capable of making executive decisions.
Barrack hasn't made any executive decisions, so let's see how he does.
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I don't think she's capable of making executive decisions.
Barrack hasn't made any executive decisions, so let's see how he does.
bitter much? i didn't say she has never made executive decisions, i said i don't think she's capable. barack showed a cool hand all throughout his campaign. face it, he is poised and ready to make executive decisions. this really is a moot point. i simply hate her folksiness, it's annoying as hell.
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I don't think she's capable of making executive decisions.
Barrack hasn't made any executive decisions, so let's see how he does.
bitter much? i didn't say she has never made executive decisions, i said i don't think she's capable. barack showed a cool hand all throughout his campaign. face it, he is poised and ready to make executive decisions. this really is a moot point. i simply hate her folksiness, it's annoying as hell.
Good work Lars you got him to admit he hates her
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I don't think she's capable of making executive decisions.
Barrack hasn't made any executive decisions, so let's see how he does.
bitter much? i didn't say she has never made executive decisions, i said i don't think she's capable. barack showed a cool hand all throughout his campaign. face it, he is poised and ready to make executive decisions. this really is a moot point. i simply hate her folksiness, it's annoying as hell.
Good work Lars you got him to admit he hates her
i simply hate her folksiness,

hmm.. nowhere there does it say i hate her. i hate her folksiness, however.
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Btown,

I get it I would fuck Chelsea because i don't hate her I just hate her Clintoness.
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sarah palin isn't dead yet?
It depends...if you are talking about her ability to ever step in the white house, then yes.
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sarah palin isn't dead yet?
B'town,

If Palin is the walking idiot you think she is why are so worried by her. if she took down the McCain ticket not the RNC then she is done why the need to still attack her. If she is a talent I guess you Dems are concerned about her and want to destroy her. Very Interesting your claim she is a no talent dimb wit then why the need to attack. I think you realize that she is a talent
i could care less about her. i don't think she's an idiot, but at the same time I don't think she's capable of making executive decisions. she fits well in the role she's currently in. anyways, the reason why I dislike her is her folksiness. it gets on my last nerves, from the way she talks to the things she says. i'm afraid of her in no way -- and I could care less if she runs in 2012. i was just hoping she'd fall into oblivion so i didn't have to hear her annoying ass accent anymore.
Or, as her drones say, Palin "0-12." :huh:
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Btown,

I get it I would fuck Chelsea because i don't hate her I just hate her Clintoness.
And what you want to do to Chelsea is what the McCain/Palin ticket did to the republican party.
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