I dissed the McCain campaign yesterday for a bum ad, so it’s only fair I recognize another one that’s pretty decent. Heck It doesn’t even have the creepy musical accompaniment the other one did.
OK, minor quibble. At Factcheck.org, one bullet point in the summary of Palin rumors it’s so far debunked says,
She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
Note the “wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States” assertion above. Folks, I’ve read the platform of the Alaskan Independence Party and it does NOT include advocacy of the idea of secession. Anywhere. Unless this is it:
We pledge to exert our best efforts to accomplish the following:
To effect full compliance with the constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Alaska….
Damned secessionist bastards! They pledge “best efforts to accomplish” a “full compliance with the constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Alaska”! Why! these people are even worse than secessionists! They’re damned anarchists!
/sarcasm off
Granted, over 30 years ago, the guy who founded the AIP went so far as to seriously question (well, as serious as such a question could be) whether Alaska had been legally made a state, but that proved to be too radical for the long haul.
Factcheck.org didn’t quite pooh the scrooch on this, but it’s an instructive lesson on DOING YOUR OWN HOMEWORK!
I DO NOT give a d*mn. I’m a native of the origional secessionist state! Some of my “Almer Tomater” brothers fired the first shots on the “Star of the West” & later Ft. Sumpter — when Dictator wanted to start his War of Northern Aggression!
I’M VOTING FOR PALIN — SHE BE THE BEST LOOKING CANDIDATE I SEE ON THE HORIZON!!!
Hugh: *heh*
Secessionist tendencies aren’t a problem for me either, as they’re perfectly in harmony with our nation’s Founding Fathers’ views (see: Declaration of Idependence, et al :-)). Indeed, America’s Third World County has seceded once and was on the verge of doing so again in the 1950s…
But. The point is accuracy in reporting. I don’t give a rat’s ass about bias and viewpoint, for example, in Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind stories, as long as they’re accurate AND truthful (different things). Newsreaders and typing monkeys can bloviate bias all they want as long as they tell the whoole story accurately. When they don’t I really like roasting their screwups.
Factcheck.org, BTW, is run–as far as I can tell–by the same folks that financed the Annenburg foundation thing that The Obamassiah chaired as part of his resume building. Not saying that such a tie is indicative of a particular bias (though Factcheck.org, like every organization made up of people does have a bias) or that their viewpoint affects their reports, because it doesn’t seem to, much. Just noting that Factcheck.org (as well as Snopes.com) has leftist ties that does sometimes affect the tenor of reportage.