Earlier this week, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin spoke out for the first time about the media coverage of her during the 2008 election. The interview, conducted by documentary filmmaker John Ziegler, will be included in his film “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Smeared.”
The video below is the exclusive footage that Ziegler uploaded to YouTube to promote the film:
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The excerpt seems fairly straight forward, in my opinion. Clearly, Governor Palin wants to set the record straight and give her side of the story–which I think she does quite well.
Palin talks about reporters who don’t go that extra step to get to the facts and report them and continue to spread things that aren’t true.
Which, coincidentally, brings us to MSNBC’s David Shuster.
Yesterday, Shuster interviewed John Ziegler regarding the clips and, well…let’s just say that it wasn’t without incident…
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Ziegler’s right. ANYONE who has watched the full clip with the Palin outtakes simply couldn’t come to the conclusion that Shuster does. David Shuster’s anti-Palin bias is transparent.
Perhaps Shuster is at his idiotic best when he questions Ziegler regarding the character assassination of Sarah Palin:
SHUSTER: Of course, that was the question about what does she really read. You’ve been quoted as saying, “Palin was assassinated by the media?”
ZIEGLER: Well, I think that’s accurate although if anything’s been taken out of context you just took that clip out of context…
SHUSTER: Wait a second, do you think it’s accurate to use the word…wait a second, wait a second…do you think it’s accurate to use the word “assassinate” in what the media–regardless of the heavy criticism, doesn’t it diminish real assassinations when you throw out the word “assassinate” because Sarah Palin didn’t like some of the questions she got in an interview?
I wish I were making this up. David Shuster thinks that describing what happened to Sarah Palin as a character assassination diminishes actual assassinations.
This is the same David Shuster who was suspended by MSNBC for suggesting the Clintons were “pimping out” their daughter Chelsea during the primary campaigns.
This is the same David Shuster who attempted to “gotcha” Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn when she didn’t know the name of a soldier from her district who had died in Iraq—when the soldier didn’t really live in her district to begin with. (Mr. Shuster and I exchanged some email on this topic when I insisted he apologize on air. He insisted that getting the name wrong wasn’t really what was important.)
The same David Shuster who called himself “a complete independent” when describing his political party and disputing charges of bias by someone at his own network–MSNBC.
Ziegler went on to call Shuster a “joke” and “an alleged newsperson.” Ziegler is right on the money.
John Ziegler’s film, “Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin Was Smeared” will be released in February of 2009. I can’t wait to see it and how the Media Spin Machine reacts to it.
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