Corrupt Journalism

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There’s a slideshow on CNN.com about “Politicians who fell from grace in 2008”.  The text that follows reads, “Election year 2008 was a career-buster for many politicians, whose crimes and misdemeanors - - or sometimes just controversies - - were exposed to the public.”  The following list is of seven of the eight corrupt politicians.

• Rob Blagojevich (D-IL)- Caught in a criminal bribe taking pay-to-play scheme to sell Barack Obama's senate seat to the highest bidder.
• John Edwards (D-NC)- Had an affair with an underling as his wife was dying of cancer, an affair he hid from public knowledge as he ran for president.
• Kwame Kilpatrick (D-MI)- Sentenced to 4 months in jail for obstruction of justice for impeding a criminal investigation into his actions as Detroit's mayor.
• Larry Langford (D-AL)- Birmingham, Alabama mayor arrested on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering and filing a false income tax statement.
• Tim Mahoney (D-FL)- Replaced sex crazed Rep. Mark Foley in Florida while hiding his own extra-marital affairs from the voters, then lost his bid for reelection once the truth came out.
• Elliot Spitzer (D-NY)- Caught with a prostitute, lost his job as governor of New York.
• Ted Stevens (R-AK)- Faces jail for bribery and making false statements to the feds.

                                      -  Summary by Newsbusters.org

Now I think we can all agree that the list above is accurate. Now the puzzling thing is who CNN put as one of the eight corrupt political leaders….Gov. Sarah Palin. I might sound like some crazed fan that should have a video on YouTube calling for Gov. Palin to be left alone, but I simply can’t stand reading stuff like this. Now you might think she is some crazed moose-hunting redneck who you Matt Damon, and Boston Legal writers, feared would be president, but one thing for sure is that Sarah Palin herself is no criminal. But hey, let’s take a look at the reasons CNN gives for having Palin on such a list.

“Sarah Palin’s “average hockey mom “persona was touted as a plus when GOP nominee John McCain chose her to be his running mate in August. But the Alaska governor lost some luster when news broke that the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 to outfit her and her family in designer duds for the campaign. Palin said the clothing would be returned and then auctioned off or donated to charity. Palin was also accused of trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police and then sacking the public safety commissioner when he refused to go along. Lawmakers decided she violated ethics rules in the first case, but was within her rights to fire the director. The state personnel board concluded she violated no ethics laws.”

Alright, so first off it isn’t like the RNC or DNC have never spent money on their nominees before. But is it because the Alaskan governor’s a woman from the GOP, which is the party President Bush is associated with, that spending money on clothing was even an issue? Second, is it really wrong of Gov. Palin to fire a former relative who threatened his wife or at least threatened her father, not to mention tasering his son because the boy wanted to know what it felt like? If anyone is guilty here it is Palin’s sister who waited so long to report her ex husband’s threats, and the unprofessional commissioner who didn’t take action and remove the unfit state trooper. So Ted Turner’s liberal CNN even paying attention to what they were saying? “…lost some luster …accused …was within her rights …violated no ethics laws.” I mean how does she even fit in this category of corrupt politicians? She doesn’t. But CNN can be filed under corrupt journalism.