Newsweek, with circulation down to
66,000 copies an issue, launches all-Palin-
bashing issue
I am not kidding. No exaggeration here. Just check out the SnoozeWeek articles. I'm thinking, Yes Madam President. . . . .
Newsweek Drops Any Remaining Pretense,
Blatantly Attacks Palin
Via Politico
“She’s bad news for the GOP and everyone else, too.”
Yeah. She sure looks dangerous in those jogging shorts.More… Aitch added:
It’s perfectly normal to expend this kind of energy on someone who’s “irrelevant” and a “quitter” and whose 15 minutes of political fame have already been used up, right?
The AP gets it wrong but Sister Toldjah gets it right as rain.
AP assigns 11 “factcheckers” to Sarah Palin’s book – and they still get it wrong
Mark Steyn, in a must-read, laughingly calls them the “Rogue Eleven”:
AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine contributed to this report.
Wow. That’s ten “AP writers” plus Calvin Woodward, the AP writer whose twinkling pen honed the above contributions into the turgid sludge of the actual report. That’s 11 writers for a 695-word report. What on? Obamacare? The Iranian nuke program? The upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
No, the Associated Press assigned 11 writers to “fact-check” Sarah Palin’s new book, and in return the 11 fact-checkers triumphantly unearthed six errors. That’s 1.8333333 writers for each error. What earth-shattering misstatements did they uncover for this impressive investment? Stand well back:
Read all about it here at the National Review Online.