{"id":1066,"date":"2008-09-25T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T18:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2008-09-28T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T21:57:18","slug":"free-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Free Sarah Palin From Rupert Murdoch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While John McCain is consumed with personally resolving the nation&#8217;s financial crisis, Sarah Palin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/michaelcalderone\/0908\/Palin_schmoozes_with_Murdoch.html?showall\" target=\"_blank\">cavorting with the glamor set<\/a> (elitist?) and the uber-conservative media barons who are propping up the Republican ticket:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;Sarah Palin schmoozed with controversial media tycoon Rupert Murdoch at a swanky charity gala here Wednesday night.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And just because I may have to much spare time on my hands:<\/p>\n<p>Free Sarah Palin<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign08\/free-sarah.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Silence of the Palins<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign08\/palin-silence.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As for John McCain&#8217;s promise to suspend his campaign so that he can concentrate on saving America by bailing out Wall Street &#8230; like much of what McCain says, it isn&#8217;t true:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/09\/what-suspension.html\" target=\"_blank\">McCain ads are still running<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/219623.php\" target=\"_blank\">McCain&#8217;s surrogates are still making the rounds on TV<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=30720\" target=\"_blank\">McCain is still scheduled to attend a Beverly Hills fundraiser Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So much for saving America. Perhaps these campaign commitments are why he doesn&#8217;t have the time to debate Barack Obama tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While John McCain is consumed with personally resolving the nation&#8217;s financial crisis, Sarah Palin is cavorting with the glamor set (elitist?) and the uber-conservative media barons who are propping up the Republican ticket: &#8220;Sarah Palin schmoozed with controversial media tycoon Rupert Murdoch at a swanky charity gala here Wednesday night.&#8221; And just because I may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,152,1],"tags":[183,103,381],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-election","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-john-mccain","tag-sarah-palin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1111,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1111","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":0},"title":"Sarah Palin Pines For Pet Press","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/30\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just when you thought that irony had reached peaks that would not be revisited for a generation or two, along comes a contender that exceeds all expectations. Sarah Palin is such a contender, and today she demonstrates why the great ones can never be counted out. The latest fake controversy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1115,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1115","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":1},"title":"A McCain\/Palin Halloween","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/31\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Boo! John McCain and Sarah Palin celebrating Halloween as Joe the Plumber and Rev. Wright.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1064,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1064","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":2},"title":"CNN&#8217;s Campbell Brown: Free Sarah Palin","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It would be a mistake to get too bogged down on the Republican spokesmodel for vice-president, Sarah Palin, but this commentary by CNN's Campbell Brown is notable for diving straight to the point: This is also notable because Brown herself has not been a particularly bright light in the media\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1070,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1070","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":3},"title":"Random Thoughts: McCain, Palin And Olbermann","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/27\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a few things that are running through my idle mind: On John McCain: In last night's debate, McCain suggested that folks check the website of Citizens Against Government Waste to confirm his allegations about Obama's congressional earmarks. What he didn't say is that CAGW is a McCain front group\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4641,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4641","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":4},"title":"Sarah Palin: An Excruciating Combination Of Bombast And Whining","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/11\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The upcoming Sarah Palin crockumentary, hilariously titled The Undefeated, has been screening before selected audiences. The reaction hasn't been particularly encouraging. For the most part conservatives are swooning over its unabashedly reverential treatment of the former half-term governor and defeated VP candidate, while liberals note the historical revisionism that excises\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1055,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1055","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":5},"title":"No One Wants To Play With John McCain","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/15\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"As an illustration of how shallow the media analysis is of the so-called \"Palin Effect.\" a picture is indeed worth a thousand words: Here are 68 words from the Washington Post: Republican presidential nominee John McCain held his first rally without running mate Sarah Palin today, and let's just say\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}