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I expect Politico to be reporting on the life and times of all future in-laws of American governors.

Bristol Palin’s future in-law arrested - Andy Barr - Politico.com

Sherry L. Johnston, Bristol Palin’s future mother-in-law, was arrested Thursday night on drug charges.

I’ll be waiting for the stories on the law run-ins of Joe Biden’s current and future in-laws………………………

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How long before the same Obama ass kissing media and far left nutroots who claim there is NO WAY Obama could have a thing to do with the Blagojevich scandal try and tie Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to racist emails sent by Alaska state employees?

AP NewsBreak: Alaska investigates racist e-mails - Yahoo! News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska officials are investigating racist jokes about President-elect Barack Obama that have been circulating on state government e-mail accounts.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo is a Liar and Supporter of Child Abusers, he is and he knows it.
Few if any have done more to smear, twist and outright lie when it comes to the facts and Alaska Governor Sara Palin.

Talking Points Memo | How Did I Miss This?

In other news, Mike Wooten, the state trooper and former brother-in-law who Palin abused power over and lied about, is getting reassigned again because of continuing threats to his safety tied to Palin’s nonsense.

What part of Palin being CLEARED does Marshall not undrstand?

Palin cleared by Alaska panel in ethics probe | Reuters

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was cleared on Monday of wrongdoing in an abuse-of-power investigation into the firing of the state’s public safety commissioner.

The Facts on Wooten that Josh Marshall refuses to put forward.

Josh Marshall complains and cries of the post election Sarah Palin coverage but then proceeds to put up THREE posts about her and the day is not out yet.

• Can someone tell Palin the election’s over?
• Step Away from the Mic
• Sarah, We Love Thee So

Diagnosis: Manic Progressive.

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Gov Palin remarked about the “basement bloggers” who smeared her family, namely her newborn son Trig and her teenage daughter when the vicious lowlifes at DailyKos started the rumor that Trig was Gov. Palin’s son and not Gov. Palin’s and Firedoglake’s Jane “blackface” Hamsher reveals her guilty conscious.

FOXNews.com - Exclusive - Greta Van Susteren Video Below

VAN SUSTEREN: Is there anything else that has been raised or said about you in the media, either during the convention — I mean, during the campaign or since the campaign ended, that you think you need to address that has been, you know, an allegation about you?

PALIN: Well, unfortunately, early on, there are a tremendous number of examples that we can give regarding my record and things that could have, should have been so easily corrected if — if the media would have taken one step further and — and investigated a little bit, not just gone on some blogger probably sitting there in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas, blogging some kind of gossip or — or a lie regarding, for instance, the — the discussion about who was Trig’s real mom? You know, Was it one of her daughters or was she faking her pregnancy?

Seems Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake took it personal and felt if necessary to list the college degrees of her and some of her fellow nutroots.

As usual Hamsher in keeping with nutroot tradition of spin and lies completely ignores the fact that Markos of DailyKos was the host of the Baby Trig attacks and pulls out the smoke and mirrors by claiming that because some of the nutroot smear merchants have college degrees the smearing of Governor Palin is irrelevant. Ummm…ok?

Firedoglake » Uh, Sarah….You Sure You Want To Go There?

For the record:

Arianna Huffington graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She is a bestselling author who ran for Governor of California.

Markos Moulitsas served in the U.S. Army from 1989 through 1992. He earned two bachelor degrees at Northern Illinois University (1992-1996), where he majored in Philosophy, Journalism, and Political Science. He earned a J.D. at Boston University School of Law.

Duncan Black earned a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University in 1999. He has worked at the London School of Economics, the Université catholique de Louvain, the University of California, Irvine, and Bryn Mawr College.

John Aravosis has a joint law degree and masters in foreign service from Georgetown. He worked on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy adviser for Ted Stevens. He also worked at the World Bank, the Children’s Defense Fund, and wrote for The Economist.

Faiz Shakir holds a B.A. in government from Harvard University and a J.D. from the Georgetown Law Center. He previously worked as a Research Associate for the Democratic National Committee, a Legislative Aide to Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and a Communications Aide in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

I have a masters’ degree in film business from USC, produced major motion pictures and wrote a best selling book.

How would Sarah feel if someone called her an ignorant, freeloading bubble headed piece of trailer park trash whose daddy told the AP she spent the weekend scrambling to return her stolen clothes to the RNC?

Just trying to keep a sense of perspective here.

Stay classy Jane “blackface” Hamsher….stay classy.

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I have no problem with Oprah Winfrey going all out and in for Barack Obama but having Tina Fey on her show without even extending an invitation to Governor Sarah Palin shows how little Oprah Winfrey really cares about women in power when they don’t subscribe to the same political ideals.

Sun Times

Appearing via satellite on today’s “The Oprah Winfrey” show, comedian actress Tina Fey said she’s “packing up her wig” and retiring her portrayal of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

“I’m going to retire. … I am really happy I did it,” Fey said. “It was this wonderful chance to go home again and be with my friends at ‘Saturday Night Live.’”

Fey, who crossed paths with Palin when she appeared on the show last month, said Palin was a good sport about the impersonation.

Fey appeared today on Winfrey’s show — the same day the talk show host will make her debut on the popular NBC hit “30 Rock,” which stars Fey.

Oprah says Palin can call her after the election?

She says she isn’t opposed to having Palin on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ in the future, though.

“If she wants to talk to me after tomorrow I will be happy to talk to her.”

Winfrey says it’s been “hard to keep my mouth shut on the show,” where politics is concerned, but adds, “I’m unleashed tomorrow.”

For now, Oprah, who voted last week in Chicago, says her eye is on the prize for the Illinois State Senator to take the Presidency and she has a dress ready for his inauguration.

Obama video delayed; Oprah to debut

A new will.i.am video celebrating Barack Obama’s win has been delayed, and now will be debuted on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Friday.

The Black Eyed Peas leader had said “It’s A New Day” would debut on dipdive.com Wednesday, the day after Obama was elected. Will.i.am’s publicist now says the Chicago-based show will debut the clip, with other celebrities on hand.

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Update: Video Added

Palin cleared by Alaska panel in ethics probe | Reuters

Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was cleared on Monday of wrongdoing in an abuse-of-power investigation into the firing of the state’s public safety commissioner.

The Alaska Personnel Board report, issued on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, ran contrary to findings from a legislative inquiry that concluded in October that Palin had abused the power of her office by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family.

UPDATE on article | Adds quotes from Palin lawyer, investigator, background

New Troopergate report clears Palin: Gov. Sarah Palin | adn.com

A new report, released just hours before the polls open on Election Day, exonerates Gov. Sarah Palin in the “Troopergate” controversy.The state Personnel Board-sanctioned investigation is the second into whether Palin violated state ethics law in firing her public safety commissioner earlier this year, and it contradicts the earlier findings by a special counsel hired by the state Legislature.

Hack Josh Marshall and his Talking Ponts Memo outright lies about the investigation and agency clearing Gov. Palin:

TPM LIE:

Talking Points Memo - Trooper-Gate Report Initiated By Palin Clears Her Of Wrong-Doing

Of course, this was an investigation that Palin herself initiated, by filing an ethics complaint against herself. The three members of the Personnel Board are appointed by Palin, and she cooperated with the investigation.

FACT:

The board is set up as follows:

The board is set up in state law as an independent agency to hear
complaints of violations of state ethics law brought against executive
branch employees. Members are appointed by the governor, though Palin
only had a role in appointing one of the three members.

TPM is outright lying, nothing new.

I’m sure the smearing left and nutroots like Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Think Progress, DailyKos, Firedoglake…..and the rest of them will be posting on Sarah Palin’s exoneration any moment now. NOT!

Oh, and this from the same AP that erroneously claimed Palin “violated the law”;

News from The Associated Press

Gov. Sarah Palin violated no ethics laws when she fired her public safety commissioner, the state personnel board concluded in a report released Monday. “There is no probable cause to believe that the governor, or any other state official, violated the Alaska Executive Ethics Act in connection with these matters,” the report says.

The guy behing the latest Gov. Palin smear site is a Dean Jansen a cyber anarchist out of Mass. here’s his site;

http://www.notthemessiah.net/

he also works for Miro.com formerly Democracy TV

He also seems very interested in the removal of McCain campaign videos by inappropriately using the DCMA. Hmmmmmm…?

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UPDATE 2:Powerline weighs in.

UPDATE: AP changes story, removes the the claim that Gov. Palin “unlawfuly” abused her power and hopes nobody notices.
Cached copy of Matt Apuzzo article from last night.

Click for full size.

But this morning the AP Apuzzo story reads;

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.

A legislative investigator found that Palin violated state ethics laws and abused her power by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper.

Audio of Legislative Council voting to release Branchflower Report.

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

The media is taking the lead from the AP claiming Governor Palin broke the law! Which law is that?
Ummmmm….none!

From the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act:

Sec. 39.52.110. Scope of code.
(a) The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any
effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.
In addition, the legislature finds that, so long as it does not interfere with the full and faithful discharge of an officer’s public duties and responsibilities, this chapter does not prevent an officer from following other independent pursuits.

And of course the left is already lying through their teeth.

Daily Kos :: Diaries

CNN’s title for its breaking story is “Panel: Palin abused power, broke no laws in trooper case.”

This is patently false. From the report, on the ethics law Palin abused:

Alaska Ethics Act

Alaska panel finds Palin abused power in firing - Yahoo! News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John McCain’s Republican ticket.

Panel: Palin abused power in trooper case - CNN.com

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska’s governor and violated state ethics law by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator’s report concluded Friday.

adn.com | Alaska Politics Blog : The Branchflower report

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act. Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) provides

The legislature reaffirms that each public officer holds office as a public trust, and any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust.

Alaska News, Jobs and Advertising from the Anchorage Daily News | Anchorage, Mat-Su Valley, Kenai Peninsula

PDF: The Branchflower report

McCain campaign response (With video)

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The politically charged investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is over, and its conclusions are stinging. But the fallout, if any, might not come until Election Day.

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Affidaivt_Randy_Ruaro.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/BaileyTranscript_8-27-08.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/BradThompsonAnswers_Signed.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/CommissionerKreitzerAnswers_Signed.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/DianneKieselAnswers_Signed.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/JaniceMasonAnswers_signed.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Letter_SenateJudiciary_10-08-2008.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_January-29-30-2008.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_March-2-2008.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/Email_October-18-2007.pdf

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/pdf/IvySubpoenaResponses.pdf

GtGA: Audio Files

3:45 pm Legislative Council (ARCHIVED AUDIO)
Anchorage LIO Conference Room
Agenda Items: Legislative Council Investigation Report; Kenai Lease Renewal Approval; Ketchikan Lease Renewal Approval; Authorize Legal Services to handle Tony Halford v Hickel Lawsuit; Other Business
Branchflower Report

Powerline
Power Line: The “troopergate” report — thin gruel

Unfortunately, the author of this report offers essentially zero analysis. He is content to state that his finding is based on “the entire record.” He does not bother to explain how that record led to his conclusion.

The first finding contains a bit more analysis, but it ultimately raises more questions than it answers. The statutory provision in question is violated only if a public officer engages in official action to benefit a personal or financial interest. Moreover, as the report acknowledges, the violation must be “knowing.”

Here, the report does not find that Gov. Palin herself attempted to get Trooper Wooen fired, although it asserts that there is some evidence of this. Rather, the author bases his conclusion on the activity of Todd Palin and on Sarah Palin’s “inaction,” namely her failure to stop her husband.

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Do NFL fans really want to watch some flabby, never walked on a football field in his life, America bashing, far-left pant-load like Olbermann spout liberal progressive nonsense during NFL games?

Olbermann takes a shot at Sarah Palin during NBC football coverage.

Daily News’ Bob Raissman saw it coming:
No place for partisan Keith Olbermann on NFL show

Sunday, the much ballyhooed reunion of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick will take place on NBC’s “Football Night In America” pregame show.

It shouldn’t.

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The haters who watch “Football Night In America” won’t relate to Olbermann as just another schlub voicing over highlights. They may even tune out in disgust. Guess NBC Sports boss Dick Ebersol does not care about losing viewers on an hour-long program that ain’t exactly a ratings juggernaut.

And the excuse NBC gave for putting the far-left hack Olbermann in at NBC Football?

Hot Air

Remember, the standard defense in letting him anchor primary nights was that he could wall off the bias sufficiently to cover straight news. He can’t even wall it off to cover football.

Olbermann Mocks Palin During NFL Football Games - Say Anything

Is that really want football fans want? Some liberal wise ass getting cute during the game?

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