Even the International Media thinks Sarah is a traitor

From Politicususa

Sarah Palin has made it to the big time; she’s been called out by international media. Three years ago, the Russian newspaper Pravda (this same paper has been quoted in numerous Right Wing publications when it criticized President Obama, and was considered a paper of merit at such time) eviscerated Sarah Palin for her unrelenting attacks upon the democratically elected President, at a time when America needs to stand together, united. When members of the International Press call Sarah Palin out for her lack of American patriotism, it’s time for the American Press to pay attention. It’s about time someone did.


Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey wrote in Pravda:

 By attacking the democratically elected President of the United States of America at a sensitive time in her country’s history, she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral….
And now she turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically elected President, accusing him of being incompetent for not stopping Wikileaks. Where was she and where was her GOP before and during the 9/11 attacks? She accuses President Obama of not taking “steps” to assure the leaks were not published. What “steps”?……

If anything is a threat to the national security of the United States of America, it is this screaming, unrefined oaf with as much class as a searing release of flatulence followed by hysterical giggling at a state banquet. Is this what the people of the USA deserve?
To attack the President of the country at a time when the USA needs to close ranks and stand together to consolidate the enormous strides his (President Obama’s) intelligent and respectful approach has achieved in building bridges, when her party’s period in government bombed them, Spankin’ Sarah Palin comes across as a pitifully inadequate anachronism from the times of the Far West.” 


Bancroft-Hinchey has been proven correct by the way MSNBC handled Martin Bashir. Palin was engaging in more treasonous talk when she compared the national debt to slavery. Her comments were more of Palin reminding everyone that the president is black, and in her view that is a very bad thing.

Bashir saw through her latest barrage of hate speech gibberish, and called her out in the most graphic way possible. The media responded by bowing to the imaginary power, and very real privilege of Sarah Palin.

The American Press won’t say what the International Press will for a variety of reasons, but suffice it to say that there are many agendas at play here, causing truth to take a back-seat to dollars. As a noted US media critic once said, “everything to sell and nothing to tell.” And what a shame, because this isn’t about partisanship or even elitism; it’s about patriotism and who better to cover this issue than our domestic press?

Ms Palin cloaks her myth in her flag, but one has to question just what that symbol represents to Ms Palin, given that she won’t stop attacking this country’s sitting President during each crisis that presents itself. The word patriotism derives from the Greek patriōtēs meaning “fellow countryman”; that would include all of us, even President Obama. I’m afraid Ms Palin and her followers conflate their false community of nationalism with patriotism, and under the guise of said nationalism, justify harming America’s standing in the world along with the very unity of our nation. One can’t help but question Ms Palin’s true motives, along with her jingoistic, tabloid-driven patriotism, since she beats this drum of division in each public appearance she makes.

One wonders, can Sarah Palin can see what the Russians see: a shrill, desperate demagogue more interested in making money and getting famous than in the best interests of her country; a woman so jealous of a sitting President that she takes every blow her country faces and exploits it, turning it into an even more negative, frightening moment while distracting from the real work – never once stepping into the debate to lead, to soothe, to unite.

Never once has Ms Palin shown her love for this great country by standing by it and her President in a time of need. Instead, she views each crisis as a cynical opportunity to sow the seeds of division among fellow countrymen. During the oil spill crisis, she took to Fox News to spew nonsense about the Dutch not getting their phone calls received, claiming she knew how to fix the leak if only the President had called on her. Of course, since she was on Fox News, no one bothered to ask her why, then, she did nothing to stop the oil spills that took place during her brief tenure as Governor of Alaska.

When she went to Hong Kong for a speaking engagement, Ms. Palin attacked her President on foreign soil during a time of war. On her first book tour, Palin and her entourage of hit men (aka, her father, et al) attacked the Commander in Chief on military bases. In times of major decisions regarding the war in Afghanistan, Palin has mocked the President when he followed the course of action recommended by his Generals. On 9/11, Palin bashed the President. In her speeches, Ms Palin is sure to remind her followers that Obama’s foreign policy is weakening America while she accuses the President of not loving his country. During the WikiLeaks crisis, Palin blamed the President instead of calling for a united front for our country.

Ms Palin and her followers justify this unpatriotic behavior by claiming the President is “un-American”. We all know what that’s about but if we’re left with any doubt, we have only to listen to Ms Palin assure her listeners that they have every right to ask for the President’s birth certificate:
And here she is just weeks ago suggesting that the failure to vet the President and his associations has harmed our democracy. Talk about projection.

Ms Palin’s heavily moderated Facebook page was just months ago full of comments calling for the death of our President, sedition, and the overthrowing of the Obama administration as being God’s will. Those comments were left standing while comments questioning Ms Palin in any way were scrubbed. Ms Palin stands for a level of vitriolic, simmering revulsion so steeped in delusions of self-righteousness, it’s tough to swim to sanity once you’ve been washed in the blood of her particular lamb.

We are at war, facing a global economic crisis, still reeling from a devastating oil spill and now facing the challenges brought on by the WikiLeaks dump. Yet, on every issue of importance, Palin has inserted herself with jarring accusations against the President, offering nothing but malicious hate fueled by a failure to understand what she doesn’t understand.

Ms Palin’s particular brand of tabloid patriotism leaves out anyone who disagrees with her, beats her in a contest, dares to question her, or has the temerity to actually read and debate important issues. She’s become an international embarrassment:

“If Sarah Palin is not some kind of a massive political joke in the USA, wheeled out to liven up the political scene from time to time with nonsensical and pastiche (one hopes) displays of sheer and utter ignorance, then it is worrying.”

Sarah Palin is the figurehead for an unpatriotic movement here in the United States of America. A movement so bereft of love for this country that they would go to any means to see it fail, in order to elevate themselves into power. A movement which just yesterday met with the democratically elected President of this fine country and then immediately stabbed him in the back in their post-game press conference.

And nestled into this web of traitors is one particularly odious senator, Senator John McCain, upon whose shoulders the blame for this national embarrassment rests. Ms Palin is the front-runner of this group for Presidential candidate in 2012 according to polls. This makes sense, given the Republican Party’s current gamesmanship of our political system, wherein their only goal is to destroy the President – not to lead, not to govern – but to destroy. At any cost necessary.

When the Russians are calling you out for failing to support your country in a time of need, for attempting to bring her to her knees with petty attacks on the President, you have seriously jumped the patriotism shark. Sarah Palin is the traitorous figurehead of the GOP, whose only purpose seems to be to assist them in their goal to bring down President Barack Obama.

So while a scant few of them (Rove, Scarborough, and a few of the “elites” who are not elected officials; the elected officials are quivering in the corner rather than standing up to the myth of Palin lest they alienate what little remains of the Republican Party base) make the rounds distancing themselves from her now, do not forget how they set her into motion in 2008 to do exactly what she’s doing now. And do not forget that even as they take a slight step away from the noxious whiff of disgust that follows in Ms Palin’s wake, they’re not silencing her; they’re not calling her out for her attacks on the President. No, the most they can muster from their cowardly bunkers of fear from which they wage their war on America is mild outrage that she would insult the Bushes or Reagan.

Nary a word about her outrageously destructive actions toward our current President. And why is that? Because Ms Palin is doing the dirty work for the Republican weaklings; sowing seeds of division, suspicion, hatred, and rage against a sitting President.

And those, my friends, are not the actions of a patriot. True Glasnost has arrived when the International Press says what the American Press will not. Sarah Palin is no patriot.

The Koch brothers and their allies have bought the media.  That's why it is more imperative than ever to get the word out about rightwingers such as Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, etc.

Like I said the other day, if the likes of Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell won't do it, then it's up to people like to me to step up to the plate.

Sarah Palin illegally benefitted from AK's generous film tax credits

From Politcusua:

Yesterday I wrote a story about what I saw as the real issue with Sarah Palin’s availing herself personally of at least a hundred thousand dollars in film tax incentives for her reality TV show (the show got 1.2 million in taxpayer funds), a subject which had made the rounds of conservative media and so irked Palin that she took to her Facebook Page to correct it on March 30, 2011.

Naturally, in order to write the article I wanted to view the exact legislation that was passed by Palin. But when I went to the Alaska Film Office tax incentive and credit page, via a Google search, it took me to a dead 404 page. I tried multiple searches and multiple links to find the files to no avail. In order to find the date the legislation was passed, for example, I ended up having to search news articles from that time period.

Luckily, I had the two PDFs from their film office from which to work, as I had previously written about this topic.

At any rate, my article focused on the specific types of projects that were ineligible for a tax credit, as Sarah Palin’s Alaska was noted to be political in nature and was certainly received that way by many, with Ms Palin herself noting in a TV interview that she got in her political statements. Political ads were specifically prohibited from receiving benefit of tax credits, as would make sense when using taxpayer funds. Furthermore, Ms Palin appeared to deny that this legislation benefited her personally, insinuating that if it benefited anyone it was the producer. However, I have been in the TV business for a long time and have worked with state tax film credits and incentives, I am aware that her statement was perhaps disingenuous, given the money paid to her as talent and the probability that a production company would be more inclined to work with her and pay her a higher amount knowing that they would ultimately get 44% (or 1.2 million dollars) back in tax credits.
Today, Dave Worrell from the Alaska Film Office contacted us to let us know that they are undergoing some site upgrades and the film tax credits and incentive files were moved on Wednesday, March 30.
He wrote:

“In Sarah Jones article she states: “Interestingly, when I went to the
Alaska Film Office website, the film incentive pages are gone.
Luckily, I have the PDFs.”
That is factually incorrect. The State of Alaska is undergoing a
website update and the Alaska Film Office website was updated on
Wednesday March 30, 2011. Filenames and locations were changed as part
of that update, but everything is still available on the website:
www.film.Alaska.gov – a good place for her to look would be the
“Public Information” page.”

Here is my response:
Dear Dave,
Thank you for contacting us with your concern. Actually, Dave, my statement wasn’t “factually incorrect”. You can follow the link I provided, which I got from your own website and from Google, and it went to a 404 dead page. I tried multiple ways to get the information and they all took me to a 404 dead page, of which I took screengrabs, one if which is shown here:

In order for my statement to be factually incorrect, I would have had to be able to find the information as any member of the public would find it and that was not possible when I wrote the article, nor is it possible now, two days later. You suggested that I try your main page, which I also did and it took me to a dead link as well. Perhaps you have that remedied today.

I’m unclear as to why the office would need to take down information for two days while upgrading and not provide a redirect link, since this is supposed to be publicly available information. You say it was on the site somewhere, and I’m sure that’s true, but I’m also sure you understand the concept of public disclosure as it pertains to the Alaska Public Records Act.

I could argue that it is not actually considered true public disclosure if someone has to know where you put the files in order to find them. Is the Alaska government in the habit of moving government files and not offering a redirect link or even a statement on the dead link with directions?

It’s been two days now, so perhaps the film office needs to redirect the pages so that the public can have access to them the way they are usually found. When you Google Alaska Film Office tax incentive, it takes you to a 404 dead link currently. It’s now April 1. It takes two seconds to set up a redirect link. We do it here every day.

Ironically, this upgrade occurred on the exact date that the Palin reacted on her Facebook page to the spate of negative criticism in the conservative media about her taking advantage of the film incentives legislation she passed, which as I noted, was exceptionally generous as compared to most other states. As during the 2008 VP campaign, there has been on ongoing pattern of files being moved when Palin-related controversy erupts.

You suggest that the factual question is one of access, but in actuality the question is one of disclosure. If the files are relocated and the public is not redirected to them, the physical existence of the file on the server is irrelevant to the public that is trying to reach them. The fundamental question is not whether the files still existed on the server, but it is why the public couldn’t view the files; this is the distance between access and sunshine/disclosure.

I further look forward to finding out exactly why they needed to move these files and were unable to provide redirect links for the public or even a message notifying the public that the files were not available to the public due to “upgrades”.

While I have your attention, I would like to request the following information:
1) What is the source of the money used to fund the Alaska Film Tax Credits and Incentives.
2) As it pertains to Sarah Palin’s Alaska, to whom were the tax credits and incentives given specifically and in what amounts.
3) How much on average does the Alaska film office pay out in tax credits and tax incentives for talent (limited to mean on-air talent such as hosts, actors/actresses for a nationally broadcast TV show, nationally distributed film and other eligible projects) in a given year, not including Ms Palin’s salary?
4) I would like a list of all of the tax credits and incentives paid to Sarah Palin, and any immediate relative or business related to Sarah Palin over the last three years since the signing of the legislation in 2008, including but not limited to: Sarah Palin, her husband Todd Palin, daughter Bristol Palin, The Alaska Fund Trust, Todd’s Fisheries, Bristol Palin’s company (BSMP LLC.), Pie Spy LLC, Palin and Associates, and James F Palin.
5) What is the total amount spent in tax credits and incentives for eligible projects in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
6) What is the film office’s response to the fact that political ads are ineligible for tax credits and incentives, and yet Sarah Palin’s Alaska was widely received as a political ad (ad as defined by dictionary: a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy). Was there any specific language in the synopsis of the show provided for approval that guaranteed a government office would not be using government money to fund a political message?
Respectfully Yours,
Sarah Jones

P.S. Please note that at 8:43 PM The link still goes to a 404 error. Alaska Film Office has still not managed to offer a redirect link for the public.

Pretty damn shameful if you ask me.  The IRS and AK dept of revenue needs to look into this.