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Palin 'Reads' The Economist, but Ignores Global Warming?

Matt Negrin

Posted: Oct 5th 2008 1:23PM

Filed under: US Elections, Politics, Boston University, Media

Whenever I meet pretentious New England liberals up here in Boston, and they ask me what I read, I always try to impress them. The New York Times. The New Yorker. The Economist.

Wait, The Economist? Do I read that overly-intelligent weekly magazine? Well, I have, a couple times. And by read I mean I glanced at it on a newsstand. But everyone lies about reading The Economist, because it makes you sound really smart and aware.

So you can imagine my surprise when Sarah Palin told Fox News this week that she reads The Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. (Katie Couric asked her a few days ago what she reads, and Palin couldn't name a single news publication. A week later, though, advisers may have helped her recollect exactly what has been "in front of her.")

"I read the same things that other people across the country read, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and The Economist and some of these publications that we've recently even been interviewed through up there in Alaska," Palin recited.

Hm. I wonder if Palin read the Economist's Aug. 1 piece on global warming's devastating effects. Probably not. When Couric asked her what she believes is causing global warming, she said, "But kind of doesn't matter at this point, as we debate what caused it."

OK, she missed an issue. No biggie -- that was before she was tapped as John McCain's running mate anyway. But in last week's debate, Palin again asserted a false claim that Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on families making $42,000 a year. I guess she missed this article on that issue, too.

Governor, are you really reading The Economist? Or do you just know what it is? I'm pretty sure economists even lie about reading The Economist.

Now, I'm not debating that you read The Times. You were probably thrilled that the newspaper of record printed a story Friday detailing Obama's relationship with 1960s radical William Ayers, even though the article ultimately shows there is no evidence that the two have crossed paths in significant ways at all. But don't let that stop you from making up what the article is about.

"Our opponent, though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," Palin alleged Saturday, citing the front-page story. "America needs to know this."

Hey, I wonder if Palin read this Times story about how she abused her power as governor of Alaska. But I guess she would deride that as "mainstream media gotcha journalism."

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ranman

2:21PM 2:21PM Oct 5th 2008

Hey dumbass hasn't anybody ever told you that you can't believe everything you read?There is plenty of doubt as to the cause of global warming,just because your sure doesn't make it so.To deride here because she doesn't agree on the root cause proves you to be a narrow minded jerk.Contrary to what you think the earth has gone through many temperature cycles long before man came on the scene and to just dismiss thisshows your stupidity.

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Kevin Taylor

5:04PM 5:04PM Oct 6th 2008

You are the dumbass - plain and simple.

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jan

3:41PM 3:41PM Oct 5th 2008

Well hey, I read 'The Economist'. And no, there's no doubt about the causes of global warming. You have to be on the fringe to not understand it.

Funny thing is, it's a slightly conservative publication, though well-written and researched enough to be fair. What I don't get is how anyone could NOT read it. It's one of the most interesting sources of information around.

And no, Ms Palin, no one believes for a moment you ever heard of it before you were told to say that. I would love to give you a test on reading comprehension. Additionally, I don't think your Joe six-pack, your beloved quintessential 'real' American, reads these publications. Then again, there's no such thing as a 'real' or typical American, except in myth. So perhaps there ARE a lot of Americans who read these. Admittedly, I don't usually do more than skim the WSJ. You are right, Matt, sometimes we have pretensions.

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raj4db

4:45PM 4:45PM Oct 5th 2008

your the opitomy of close minded.Just the fact that you can completely negate the history of the planet to conform to youropinion shows your opinion is of no merit.Typical dem refuse to look at the facts unless they support your bias .Nobody knows the truth but you and how dare they state their opinion when you in fact are representing your opinion as fact.

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Jennifer Shepherd

9:02PM 9:02PM Oct 5th 2008

I'm pretty sure the average reader of the Economist can spell epitome, unlike yourself raj4db. I generally only read the annual Year in.. issue, and it takes me until March or so to get all the way through it.

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raj4db

3:11AM 3:11AM Oct 6th 2008

I see you couldn't argue the point so you were reduced to a snotty comment about spelling I've never read the Economist and frankly I could give a shit about your opinion

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eric

11:36PM 11:36PM Oct 5th 2008

AL GORE SAID THE DEBATE IS OVER...HE IS LIKE GOD..GLOBAL WARMING IS CAUSED BY MAN AND WE ONLY HAVE TO SEND HIM A FEW MORE BILLION. KEEP BUYING CARBON OFF-SETS AND THE EARTH WILL BE CURED. IGNORE THE SEVERAL HUNDRED SCIENTISTS AND THE FLAWED COMPUTER SIMULATIONS THAT SAY AND SHOW THERE IS NO TANGABLE PROOF THAT MAN IS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING. THEN AFTER THE EARTH IS CURED AND A SUPER VOLCANO ERUPTS....WE ARE SCREWED ALL OVER AGAIN...WHAT ABOUT ASTEROIDS...THEY'RE COMING TOO. SHALL WE START A DESTROY THE ASTEROID FUND? THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS SLOWLY SPINNING US OUT INTO SPACE....WE BETTER FIX THAT TOO. FREAKIN' IDIOTS.

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JGalt

8:23AM 8:23AM Oct 6th 2008

It amazes me how well all the Liberals learn to salute. Salute Climate Change everyone, salute Al Gore. Oops the Brits forgot to salute him, their judge, Burton, deemed his movie about climate change was alarmist, inaccurate and an alarmist political piece. It is not able to be shown in their schools. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/corporate_law/article2633838.ece

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Steve Seivers

2:43PM 2:43PM Oct 6th 2008

Global Warming for Dummies:

Life on this planet is carbon based.
Carbon is a chemical binder.
When ancient (yes the earth is over 6,000 years old)plant and animal remains are burned, carbon is released into the atmosphere and it immediately binds with its favorite chemical pal Oxygen to form carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide.

Carbon mono or dioxide and methane are greenhouse gases. In other words, much of the radiation that enters the earth's atmosphere bounces off of the shiney surfaces and escapes to outer space. With increasing carbon and methane levels in our atmosphere it bounces back and forth between those shiney surfaces and the carbon in the atmosphere and makes everything warmer. Viola, the greenhouse effect.

We are presently putting billions of tons of carbon and methane into our atmosphere.

Do the math. Billions of tons of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere equals warmer temperatures.

If you don't beleive me go to a greenhouse in the middle of winter. Warm isn't it. That's the Sun's radiation getting trapped and making things warmer.

Now, for those of us that took math, chemistry and biology it is an insult to our intelligence for people to take the neandertal approach to something so important. Get with it, don't lie to us and don't believe those that try to perpetuate the myth that man made global warming is bad science when in reality it is as easy as 2+2=4.

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polly

3:22PM 3:22PM Oct 6th 2008

>
> Listening to the mainstream media these last few
> days I've learned a few things about the GOP's VP
> nominee but also had to learn a few things on my own. To
> wit:
>
> 1. From the media I learned Sarah Palin's
> husband has a DUI conviction from 22 years ago. On my own I
> learned that Ted Kennedy (hero of last week's tribute at
> the DNC) was drunk while driving a car off a bridge in
> Chappaquiddick. That same crash killed a young campaign
> volunteer with whom he was having an affair. Oh, and that
> woman was pregnant with his child. * Mr. Palin's (who is
> not running for office) DUI came a mere 4 years after Barack
> Obama (who is running for president) stopped using cocaine
> and marijuana (by his own admission in his autobiography).
>
> Shocking - it's OK for the presidential
> candidate to use drugs or the party patriarch to kill
> someone while driving drunk yet the husband of a VP
> candidate should be demonized for something done 22 years
> ago.
>
> 2. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's
> daughter is pregnant. * On my own I learned that Joe
> Biden's (the other VP candidate) son was paid a large
> amount of money as a consultant to credit card company MBNA.
> That same company had business before Senator Joe Biden
> concerning regulation of consumer credit practices. After
> the company paid a hefty sum to Mr. Biden's son, he
> voted in favor of legislation to help that company.
> * That same son, Hunter, is also engaged in a legal
> investigation and suit for defrauding a former business
> partner
>
> Shocking - it's a crime for the republican VP
> candidate to have a child who's pregnant even though
> it's irrelevant to how she performs her job. It's
> ok, however, for the democrat VP candidate while a senator
> to vote in favor of a company who paid his son over a
> quarter of a million dollars.
>
> 3. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin should
> be considered 'selfish' for agreeing to run for VP
> knowing about her daughter's condition. Knowing th at
> her public role would bring extra scrutiny on the family is
> selfish and she should have declined to protect her child
> (actually heard this on ABC this weekend).
>
> Strange - the same people who said Sarah is selfish
> for running for VP did not seem to care about any impact on
> Chelsea when Bill Clinton had his dalliance with Monica
> Lewinsky. That was a private, personal matter you see.
>
> 4. From the media I have learned to be
> 'concerned' that Sarah Palin probably won't be
> able to manage her family and do an effective job of being
> VP at the same time.
>
> Funny - I never heard anything about Hillary's
> ability to support Chelsea while re-doing healthcare or any
> of the other feminist icons who say you can balance wor k
> and family. They also never men tion that Barack will have
> to balance time with his children while meeting with heads
> of rogue nations or how Joe Biden's kids don't even
> have a mom and will be fighting for his time while he hosts
> white house coffee fundraisers and sells nights in the
> Lincoln bedroom.
>
> 5. From the media I have learned that Sarah Palin
> is 'too inexperienced' to be a heartbeat-away from
> the presidency.
> * Apparently taking on corruption in your own party
> and running a state that's the same size people-wise as
> Delaware (hint hint: that's where Joe Biden is from) is
> not really experience. * However, time spent as a
> 'community organizer' and less than 180 days in the
> senate where you've authored no significant legislation
> is just the type of 'change' we're looking for
> from the top of the ticket.
>
> Funny - inexperience at the top of the ticket is a
> mantra for 'change' and 'hope' while strong
> practical everyday experience as the #2 is cause for
> concern.
>
> 6. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's
> husband once got a ticket for fishing without a license.
> * I haven't heard much about the fact that if
> he were still a practicing attorney, the VP candidate Joe
> Biden would be dis-barred for plagiarism not once but
> multiple times.
>
> It's ok to break the rules if you're a
> democrat candidate but not Ok if you are the spouse of a
> republican candidate.
>
> 7. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin
> doesn't know much about Iraq ; in fact we wonder if she
> even knows where it is.
> * Sarah's son volunteered into the US military
> and is now deployed in Iraq . I guess that doesn't
> count.
>
> Sarah has spent more time with troops in Iraq (as
> commander of the Alaska National Guard she visited Iraq last
> year) than Obama has even while running for president. In
> fact, when Sarah went to Iraq she spent time
> with the troops. When Obama went there, he skipped
> a base visit to instead go work out at the Ritz Carlton.
>
> 8. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin is a
> 'lightweight' and she better be a 'quick
> study' to keep up with this team.
>
> Funny, nobody is talking about how, after Barack
> Obama had 'visited 57 states' according to him he
> only had '5 more to go' or endless other stupid
> gaffes that expose who he really is.
>
> 9. From the media I have learned that (gasp!),
> Sarah Palin's husband was once a registered member of a
> 3rd party that favored states' rights (man, this is
> really bad stuff).
>
> * That same media has been silent to the story that
> when Barack Obama announced his first senate run, he did so
> in the home of William Ayers. Mr. Ayers is an un-repentant
> terrorist convicted for bombing the pentagon. This same Mr.
> Ayers said on 9/11 that he and his group did not do enough
> to harm our military and he wished he had done more. During
> the same time as that comment, he was serving on a board
> with Barack Obama. All notes and information about their
> serving together is now locked up by the corrupt Chicago
> machine and reporter access to those records are being
> blocked by the Obama campaign.
>
> If we've had any doubts about the bias of the
> media, it's pretty clear now where they stand. Pass this
> on to some of your friends who are on the fence and who get
> all their information from Katie Couric, Wolf Blitzer,
> Tom Brokaw and the gang. This is egregious and
> corrupt. The only way to stop it is to spread information
> using other outlets and make these guys irrelevant.
>

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Al Gore

6:12PM 6:12PM Oct 6th 2008

ManBearPig is real!

Gwoooooan.

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le wilhelm

4:44PM 4:44PM Oct 6th 2008

Matt reads the truth,but ignores it and attacks Palin. He won't look at the planned Obama fraud to take place at the polls as intimidation and triple voting happens. Obama is spreading Chicago style voting to all of America. What are you doing Matt. Sitting around like some knee jerk lefty, and hurting America by your failure to report the truth.

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ranman

5:56PM 5:56PM Oct 6th 2008

Kevin Taylor.. It took you 27 hours to come up with that pitifull retort? What a brilliant mind you must have.

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polly

6:08PM 6:08PM Oct 6th 2008

FORMCCAINPALIN5:34PMOct 6th 2008

This is a letter I recieved from a friend:

To all my family and friends, this is long but very important, please take the time to read it.

This election has me very worried. So many things to consider.

About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since then. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and FOX News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking "where did the money come from for obama?" I have four daughters the went to college, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.

I started looking into obamas life.

Around 1979 obama started college at Occidental in California. He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, he did not apply himself to his studies.

"Barry"(that was the name he used all his life) during this time had two roomates, muhammad hasan chandoo and wahid hamid, both from Pakistan. During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a "round the world trip". Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next hyderabad in india, three weeks in karachi, pakistan where he stayed with his roomates family, then off to africa to visit his fathers family. My Question- Where did he get the money for this trip?. Neither I, nor any one of my children would have had the money for a trip like this when they were in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to cal him barak- not barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Colombia?.
Its not cheap! to say the least. Where did he get the money for tuition? Student loans? Maybe. After Columbia he went to Chicago to work as a community organizer for $12,000.00 a year. Why Chicago? Why not New York?, he was already living in New York.

By "chance" he met antoin "Tony" Rezko, born in Alleppo Syria, and a real estate developer in Chicago. Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named "entrepreneur of the decade" by the arab business and proffessional association". About two years later, obama entered Harvard Law School. Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School?. Where did he get the money for law school?. More student loans? After law school, he went back to Chicago. Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with davis, miner, barnhill & galland. Guess what? They represented "Rezar" which is rezkos firm. Rezko was one of obamas first major financial contributors when he rean for off in Chicago. In 2003 rezko threw an early fundraiser for obama which chicago tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing obama with "seed money" for his US senate race. In 2005, obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1,650,000.00 (less than the asking price, so it was a good deal). With ALL those student loans- where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezkos wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining property for full price. The London Times reported that nadhmi auchi, an iraqi-born billionaire loaned rezko $3,500,000.00 three weeks before obamas new home was purchased. obama met nadhmi auchi many times with rezko.

Now we have obama running for president. Valerie jarrett, was michele obamas boss. She is now obamas chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without first talking to her. Where was jarret born?Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?

On Mat 10th 2008, The times reported, robert malley advisor to obama was "sacked" after the press found out he was having regular contacts with hamas, which controls gaza and is connected with iran. This past week, burried in the back of the papers, iraqi newspapers reported that during obamas visit to iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will the "take care of things".

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roomates that were born in pakistan? They are in charge of all those "small" internet campaign contributions for obama. Where is all that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the middle east?

And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on "This Week" with George Stephanapoulos. obama on talking about his religion said, "My muslim faith". When questioned, "he made a mistake". Some mistake!

All of the above information I got on line. If you would like to check it - Wikipedia, encyclopedia, barak obama: tony rezko; valerie jarrett: Daily Times- obama visited pakistan in 1981; The Washington Times-September 7, 2008; The Times May 10, 2008.

Now the "BIG" question- If I found out all this information on my own, why havnt all of our "intelligent" members of the press reporting this?

A prrase the keep ringing in my ears-"BEWARE OF THE ENEMY FROM WITHIN"!!!!