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From the floor of the GOP 2008 National Convention: anti-Right Keith Olbermann's hosted broadcast on MSNBC deployed interviewer, Ron Allen, who stopped Newt Gingrich and asked him about GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's "experience."

Gingrich:

(Sarah Palin)...she's a national figure.

Interviewer:

But to be fair, her resume is not something that we're familiar seeing with Presidential candidates.

Gingrich:

Well, it's stronger than Barack Obama's -- I don't know why you guys walk around saying this baloney! She has a stronger resume than Obama.

She's been a real Mayor, he hasn't.

She has been a real Governor, he hasn't.

She's been in charge of the Alaska National Guard, he hasn't.

She was a whistleblower who defeated an incumbent mayor -- he has never once shown that kind of courage.

She's a whistleblower who turned in the chairman of her own party and got him fined twelve thousand dollars.

I've never seen Obama do one thing like that.

She took on the incumbant Governor of her own party and beat him and then she beat a former Democratic Governor in the general election.

I don't know of a SINGLE thing Obama has done except talk and write.

And, and I'd like you to tell me one thing you think Senator Obama has done.

Interviewer:

(Brief Pause.) Thanks very much, Mr. Speaker, I'm going to leave it there, I'm not going to argue the case...thanks very much.

Gingrich:

Thank you.

Interviewer:

Keith, back to you.

(Cut to)
Olbermann:

Ron Allen with Newt Gingrich (...) There were some openings provided by former Speaker Newt Gingrich right there, ah, we will get to them in a moment...(never did).

Gratis, HOT AIR, for the link.

The attacks from the Obama Left (and most Democrats, it appears in media) continues on Sarah Palin.

In my estimation, this overwhelming onslaught of ugliness from the Left speaks volumes as to the Left's absence of ethics, if not deranged community-characteristic. It also represents a startling irrational attempt by the Left to deflect attention away from Obama and avoid discussing him.

Which leaves me concluding that the Left is captured in their support for a candidate, Barack Obama, who is defined by hyperbole only - look any closer, you see the reality of the candidate without the "airbrushing" or media retouching and the Left has no means to spot-remove the many huge question marks hanging all over their cut-out in paper clothes.

Thus, they attack Sarah Palin. What we're seeing taking place at this date in and by the media (excluding Fox News, who at least includes some reasonable opinion otherwise) in this current Leftwing media malignment of Sarah Palin, is beyond despicable, it is cretinous

This attack on Sarah Palin by the Leftwing is also the Leftwing's wan attempt to avoid "vetting" Barack Obama. I suppose they're assuming that American voters will just pay the few dollars and buy their tired trash (and vague candidate) instead. Not going to happen.

The Leftwing media, as with the Left on the internet, has not gone unnoticed into implausibility and disgusting offensiveness, and I can think of little that they might do at this point to ever gain the respect of many of us voters. Who are also consumers.

This is pathetic! Man's an incompetent boob!

From HOTAIR, this report:

Anderson Cooper asked Barack Obama last night to answer the claim that Sarah Palin has more applicable experience than he does. In response, he completely ignores Palin's status as governor, and then makes the claim that a campaign counts as executive experience:

AC: Some Republican critics say, you don't have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They've in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What's your response?

BO: Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin's town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we've got 2500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I've passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak indicates to extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.

McCain's response, via his campaign, is, first off, far more intelligent by comparison (and otherwise), as it is also far more "word efficient" and succinct. Gets the job done, issue addressed, question answered.

Update: The McCain campaign has responded to Mark Halperin at Time:

"For Barack Obama to argue that he's experienced enough to be president because he's running for president is desperate circular logic and it's laughable. It is a testament to Barack Obama's inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin's executive experience managing a budget of over 10 billion dollar dollars, and more than 24,000 employees." -- Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008

I can see it now, the huge and wasteful governmental-mess that Obama would create if he could: filled with waste, elaborations, circular avoidances of any conclusion, generalities enough to annoy even the most patient person, expenses to "pay for" all of that including an eventual, belabored conclusion that is dumbfoundingly foolish, such as Obama's conclusion, that he's experienced to be President "because (he's) running for President."

What a doofus!

Go McCain/Palin '08!
Sarah Palin's executive experience trumps Barack Obama's.

Via littlegreenfootballs, this report from "zombietime" replete with excellent photo and video record of what actually occured in Denver on this one instance -- counter-protestors harassed protestors, Code Pink in concert with the counter-protestors instigated and harassed the police and then feigned harms when the police responded.

Zombie captures the reality on the ground, close-up and close-in, as to what really transpired (and explains at what moments the media present "edited reality" [my term for it] by withholding film record at crucial moments).

Instead, what we, the public saw from and about the DNC convention in Denver last week, was, glossed-over rosey golden hum-right by candlelight and sun. What we saw was staged, in other words, another construct of the "fantasy, imaginary candidacy" of Barack Obama.

Zombie also has some other excellent photos from the whole Denver experience, also all found via littlegreenfootballs. The "Democratic Convention Giant Puppet Parade" is very, very funny, in an uncomfortable, stupid sort of way. We sure didn't see these stupid Democrats on the MSM (or even read about them).

Zombie: Anatomy of a Video - Democratic Convention 2008 Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:39:20 pm PST

How the media and left-wing blogs combined to create a police scandal out of thin air

The real story behind the Alicia Forrest/Carlo Garcia arrests.

On Tuesday, August 27, during the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I witnessed an incident that seemed at the time to be rather minor, but which over the subsequent days turned into a major scandal -- primarily due to a video posted online by the Rocky Mountain News. This carefully edited video shows Officer Stewart of the Denver Police knocking Alicia Forrest of Code Pink to the ground during a protest, and then, after an edit, Forrest getting arrested by other officers. This video has created a firestorm among left-wing blogs, and also engendered many follow-up stories in the Denver Post, the Rocky Mountain News, Westword, and other mainstream Denver media outlets.

However, I personally witnessed the entire incident, from the beginning to the end, and can say without reservation that the Rocky Mountain News video is intentionally deceptive, and crafted to make the protester (Alicia Forrest) appear to be a victim of needless police brutality. I have photographic and video proof, shown below, that Alicia Forrest "asked for it" in the sense that she disobeyed police commands to stay back and also taunted the police; and that she was not seriously injured by Officer Stewart; and that the Rocky Mountain News in particular committed an act of media malfeasance by purposely posting on their site a deceptive video that left out all the context surrounding the incident. Furthermore, many blogs jumped on the story and trumpeted it as evidence of police misbehavior, when in fact there was no misbehavior at all.

The report (see/read at this link) has 25 photos and four short videos, but bear with me and read all the way through to the end in order to see the full story. The full incident lasted many minutes and is a little complicated, but can easily be followed photo-by-photo in the report (see/read the full story...)

Also: THE DNC CONVENTION GIANT PUPPET PARADE