Telegraph Accuses Sarah Palin of Obama Threats
The British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, seemingly in the need of higher sales and more online hits, published an article today entitled “Sarah Palin blamed by the U.S. secret service over death threats against Barack Obama.”
The actual content of the article says no such thing, nor does it quote the secret service as saying it: instead, the only thing that they noticed is that more people threatened president-elect Barack Obama at about the same time Governor Sarah Palin started accusing Obama of “palling around with terrorists,” and having other unsaviory friends.
But the secret service does not blame her for the death threats in any way. Instead, it could very well be argued that more threats were made in the last month to 1.5 months of the campaign, simply because the wackos started paying more attention to the campaign at that point and because Obama haters then started to realize that Obama could actually win the election.
It was a sad day when the first serious newspaper felt it had to use a screaming headline in order to sell more copies, regardless of the actual content of the story and the truth.
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Is the Telegraph not a conservative-leaning publication?
MM: yes it is.
PT: it’s one of the best newspapers out there.
The reason I asked is that you would think they’d be more friendly to her for that reason. Guess not.
Money is apparently more important than honesty.
Exactly my point. And money tends to trump ideology
It’s Newsweek blaming Palin, not the Secret Service. And note that the Newsweek article says the spike was in September and early October. That doesn’t correspond to Palin’s tougher remarks and liberal media accounts of her rallies becoming “frenzied.” As far as I know, it all started with an October 6 rally which the Washington Post reported on: “In Fla., Palin Goes for the Rough Stuff as Audience
Boos Obama.” That was the story that reported someone yelled “kill him” apparently about Ayers which was twisted in other accounts into being about Obama. Also check out this Newsweek article: “The Secret Service and the Obama Death Threat.” It says the Secret Service was angered by Obama spreading the false report that people had yelled “kill him” about him at Palin rallies when he’d been told that in the two known possible incidents, neither turned out to be the case.