Sarah Palin slams Newsweek for giving ‘conspiracy kook writer’ Andrew Sullivan cover story

GO Away Sarah

As you read this story and comments, just remember what George Carlin said. "Think about how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that." Then realize they can all vote.

I'll probably get thumbs down for this, but Twitter is for twits, and anybody who has ever studied journalism knows the three rules of journalism are accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. If you can't prove it, don't print it.

Today, all you have to do to Smear a person in public is plant the seed of doubt. You dont have to have any evidence, just the doubt will do.

There once was a day when news stories had to be double verified. Today, any rumor or idle idiotic thought by a "news person" becomes front page. Sad, very sad.

If Sarah Palin wanted to really try to embarrass Sullivan, she should do a witnessed DNA test for maternity along with Trig and Bristol, and have the press attend the grand opening of the announcement of results.

When the rest of the world reads things like this is it any wonder that they look at us and decide that Americans are so preoccupied with what the media thinks that they cannot focus on the real issues dragging thier country down. The American media outlets are doing thier fair share of making all of us look like we cant figure out whicxh shoe to tie first let alone elect someone who is more concerned with reestablishing integrity and credibility to our own government. As a US citizen which battle front do we take on first a government who is so out of touch with blue collar and grass roots Americans or an out of control self-exalting media . Or a financial system so greedy they absolutely do not care who ends up on the street as long as they get our money first. A good example of the effects of all three HHHmmm I think it was called the Roman Empire. Did'nt and correct me if I'm wrong that colapse. If we get back to being patriots and standing on the Constitution we will avoid history repeating itself.

We have a "dumb" education problem.

I Am from Scotland But Surely There Are More Important Things Happening In The USA Than This Non Story.

The media is precisely why we have the caliber of politicians we do. Who wants to have their children pilloried (Amy Carter, Bristol Palin) rumors about their place of birth (Obama), their antics in college (Bush), their tax returns, their divorces (Gingrich Kerry) under a magnifying glass? No sane person.
Only the megalomaniacs, the self absorbed, and the incredibly rich would. And thats what we have.

Stories like this one and the Kardashians always get a lot of readers and responses, while stories about our national debt and economy get a tiny fraction of the readers.

No wonder we are in trouble as a country!

Journalism is dead. Self inflicted

So we've resigned ourselves to arguing who is dumb. I give up.

I am amazed that people can write anything in the news or magazines and everyone believes it. Once upon a time, and this is no fairy tale, we used to have reporters who investigated the facts and when it went to print, or was reported in the news, you could bet it was accurate. Now, regular news is no different than super Market rags like Enquirer. Dumb people keep believing in this crap without verification of any facts. Look at the birthers with Obama!!

It just keeps getting worse. God help America from itself.

Today's journalism is just different degrees of lying and manipulation. We would be better off without them. They forgot what the words truth, integrity, and honesty mean. They are for sale to the highest bidder.

Ok I'm probably going to make some of you mad but oh well, it's just how I feel...........Americans any more are dumb, we care more about sports, stars or reality TV shows than what is going on in our country. Our education system keeps getting cut while our government that WE elect in to office hands out Billions of dollars so that other countries can have good education, jobs and health care just to name a few. We have a news system (NBC, CBS, ABC, MSMBC, Time, Newsweek along with local and National newspapers that instead of giving us the whole story they sugar coat it, twist it around or not cover it at all leaving us the public completely ill informed so that their favorite political person looks better than what they really are, but we keep supporting them anyway. The media keeps playing us against one another to distract us from what is really going on. WAKE UP AMERICA!

WHY did I look at this story !!!

On November 23, 2010: "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, announced that Russia and China will use their own national currencies for bilateral trade, instead of the declining U.S. dollar. The move is aimed to further improve the relations between Beijing and Moscow and to protect their domestic economies in the conditions of the world financial crisis. The trading of the Chinese ‘Yuan’ against the Russian ‘Ruble’ has started in the Chinese interbank market and the Russian foreign exchange market."

Keep squabbling. When the US dollar falls as the world's reserve currency maybe all this political infighting will buy you a loaf of bread.

Forget Sara, this is about the article itself. Is it right or wrong?