This country is going to be betrayed sraight to hell by the bias in the media. The reporter and the editor should be fired.

This is frustrating. What ever happened to Karma?

BOYCOTT MSM networks (national and local)!!!!!!!

It’s the only way to handle these lying media outfits.

Both the Anchorage News and the Fairbanks News Miner have been in the tank for Obama since February, and, more than that, totally leftist. Anything Palin is construed against her; any positive-Palin story is ignored.

I hope both newspapers go under. (I believe the Juneau Empire is similarly skewed, but don’t read it as much…)
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The Fairbanks and Ketchikan are the only ones that will give a Republican anything like fair coverage. The ADN and the JE are like Pravda and Isvestia; inThe Truth there is no News and in the News there is no Truth. You do have to understand that Fairbanks is a very oily town and there isn’t a lot of love between the Industry and Gov. Palin these days.

The JE has been a pretty good paper for our side of the ditch in the past, especially considering the kind of town Juneau is. But Morris has come under the son of the old man who doesn’t seem to pay much attention and the current publisher is that sorriest, most confused of creatures, a Southern Liberal. Anyway, Morris Communications is in bankruptcy and the JE is cutting back everything. All three papers are now heavily dependent on AP coverage, which can be really lefty. For a while Gov. Palin had a good ride with the AP since one of her staffers was good “friends” with the JNU AP reporter, but I don’t think he’s around anymore and if he is, he’s closely supervised.

Sue the pants off all of them. Every attorney I speak with all state she’s got cases galore. For her, there’s very little work to be done, just be the plaintiff, and let the lawyers do the rest.

Then, all winnings go to a charity for kids with Downs Syndrome. I’m sure there’s a few tough attorneys out there looking to make a name for their firm willing to do it pro bono.

Join the RedState Strike Force

In addition to the newspapers, there are scumbags like Dan Fagan attacking Palin. Fagan is a columnist for Anchorage Daily News, has a radio talk show and has started an online blog that seems to be designed primarily to discredit Palin.

According to many Alaskans, Fagan is owned by VECO and the major oil companies. When Palin became governor and threw out the corrupt “good old boys” (Fagan’s friends). This obviously hurt Fagan financially and politically.

If something like the Sherry Johnston thing had come down on my watch people would have involved me in deciding how to handle it. In my time, we wouldn’t have been thinking about an Alaskan in a National election, but we have elections too, and we have some notion of what they mean.

My first question to whomever was in charge of the investigation would be whether waiting would compromise the investigation. If he told me it wouldn’t, I’d tell him to wait until after the election. This is just not the sort of thing you insert into an election if you have the choice of not doing so. If he told me the bust would be compromised, I’d say go, but if not, let the polticians play; the refs shouldn’t decide the game.

Even if everything Cyr and Cox said is true, I wouldn’t fault Masters for saying hold off.

Only two went directly from Senator to President, Harding and Kennedy. With Obama that will be three. Not very good odds actually. Why take a losers path when you don’t have to. She already has a strong national base that can be built on.
Regarding the Dittman pole, seems like an agenda to me.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=AK&last=dittman

She should send him out to hold Press Conferences with instructions not to make friends; to name names, call individual reporters and editors out for lying partisan hacks they are and charge them with deliberately publishing false information and innuendo for political ends. And then line by line, debunk every allegation in the article(s) - ripping the people involved in putting them out all the way.

Rinse and repeat. Put the transcripts on the ‘net on the Governor’s official website. Upload videos to YouTube. On a daily basis.

This is my advice for every single Republican. Make it an open war. At this point, for Palin to think there’s any chance of her having a friendly relationship with the Press would be nothing more than rank stupidity.

We’ve already seen from the Bush White House what does not work as a response to a media establishment intent on destroying you.

Ignoring them, trying to be “above the fray” or even attempting to change the subject (like George Allen tried with his two minute ad after the “macaca” thing hit him below the waterline in 2006) without addressing it only cedes them the battlefield with their credibility intact to do whatever damage they can and will.

An open declared war at least forewarns Alaskans to be skeptical - that this latest story may just be another hit job, and therefore they’d wait to see what the Governor and her spokesmen have to say before they lend it any credence.

but this is starting to reach a point where he had better worry about his fans as much as his enemies. AKSteveB has that “crazed fan”feel to him where he is going to eventually show up at the radio station professing his love for Dan Fagan and ending up with a restraining order.

If Fagan is indeed the closest thing Alaska has to what the rest of the country would consider a mainstream conservative, then the 49th state is doomed. His war against all things Palin is giving aid and comfort to the Democrats. So what if he is the Anchoratge Daily News token conservative? If being a Murkowski fan makes one a mainstream conservative, then the good old boy and girl network has a different definition of “conservative” than do many of us.

Interesting discovery that one of Allah’s readers at Hot Air made. It seems that Dave Dittman, whose polling firm Fagan paid to conduct his survey, is a long-time donor to Frank and Lisa Murkowski’s political campaigns.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/06/video-im-not-closing-the-door-on-2012-says-palin/

While that in itself doesn’t refute the results of Danny Boy’s poll, it certainly puts a big question mark over the numbers. As big a question mark as the one over the results of the Research 2000 poll that kos paid for IMO.

If Gov. Palin is not popular up there amongst conservatives, how does she still manage to maintain an approval rating in the sixties? Alaskans say that they are more conservative than the rest of the country. How is it “an adolescent boy type rebellion against big oil” to expect the Big3 to pay their way to make a crap load of profits? And since when should the oil companies dictate to Alaska’s government and its citizens what to do?

I doubt I’m going to change any of the good old boy and gal network fan loyalties, but some of you Faganists are somewhere between having a teenage crush and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Back atcha, AKSteveB,

- JP

I have said this before and will probably say it many more times in the future. Alaska has a good governor. I like Governor Palin. Take your pick of all the the other governors in the country and tell me which one would you prefer to have. 45 governors will be showing up hat in hand on January 20, 2009 begging for money to pay their states bills.

Frank Murkowski did it to himself. He was voted out by the people. I have heard the first persone he thought to appoint was Sarah Palin to the Senate seat before he appointed his daughter. I bet he is wishing he had appointed Palin now.

Having said this, I think Gov Palin need to do several things. One, gather her family if she has not done so and close associates and get everyone to understand that everything we do and everything we say will be scrutinized completely. You have to be wise who you associate with and who you do business with. Two, and I do not know Alaska law regarding this idea, but form a political action committee to raise money and build a campaing either for a reelection effort in 2010 or a national effort later on. Within this PAC hire a crack PR specialist to help with speeches and image. Hire a crack political hitman who will strike fear into anyone who attacks the governor or her family.
Sarah Palin has plenty of friends around the country who will contribute to her campaign. Lastly, rule out a run for the Senate or the Presidency and announce a reelection run in 2010.

Also, come to some kind of accord with the remnant of the Murkowski organization including Senator Murkowski. I will say this again, we are all republicans. We may not all agree or like each other very much, but we share a common interest.

Here are some things I am sure we have a common interest in.
1.2 trillion dollar budget deficits!
Silence from the new President on the Gaza war
Silence from the new President on border security
Silence from the new President on the War on Terror

I have said this before and will probably say it many more times in the future. Alaska has a good governor. I like Governor Palin. Take your pick of all the the other governors in the country and tell me which one would you prefer to have. 45 governors will be showing up hat in hand on January 20, 2009 begging for money to pay their states bills.

Frank Murkowski did it to himself. He was voted out by the people. I have heard the first persone he thought to appoint was Sarah Palin to the Senate seat before he appointed his daughter. I bet he is wishing he had appointed Palin now.

Having said this, I think Gov Palin need to do several things. One, gather her family if she has not done so and close associates and get everyone to understand that everything we do and everything we say will be scrutinized completely. You have to be wise who you associate with and who you do business with. Two, and I do not know Alaska law regarding this idea, but form a political action committee to raise money and build a campaing either for a reelection effort in 2010 or a national effort later on. Within this PAC hire a crack PR specialist to help with speeches and image. Hire a crack political hitman who will strike fear into anyone who attacks the governor or her family.
Sarah Palin has plenty of friends around the country who will contribute to her campaign. Lastly, rule out a run for the Senate or the Presidency and announce a reelection run in 2010.

Also, come to some kind of accord with the remnant of the Murkowski organization including Senator Murkowski. I will say this again, we are all republicans. We may not all agree or like each other very much, but we share a common interest.

Here are some things I am sure we have a common interest in.
1.2 trillion dollar budget deficits!
Silence from the new President on the Gaza war
Silence from the new President on border security
Silence from the new President on the War on Terror

Even after retractions and all manner of debunking.