The mainstream media has resorted to attacking GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's husband Todd Palin. At the bottom of the hour of Bill Press's radio show at 6am this morning, Press said the following:
PRESS: What's the difference between a secessionist and a terrorist? Isn't a secessionist just another form of a terrorist? Ask Abraham Lincoln...Let's find out what the "First Dude" was going to do in order to secede from the union. I tell you it wasn't going to be peaceful.
Has Bill Press lost it? The first glaring difference is Todd Palin never blew up innocent people or landmarks all over the country. Comparing Todd Palin to Bill Ayers is just plain nonsense and disingenuous.
The first line of attack on this issue was that Governor Palin was a secessionist. When that was debunked, the left went after her husband. More importantly, he was never shown to "terrorize" others like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn did.
Todd Palin registered with the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995 but later registered as undeclared in 2000 and later again in 2002. How active was he, though? Many states have 'Independence' parties, and they get their numbers from people who believe they are registering in no party at all.
Palin has no real active history with the party and later registered as "undeclared," so he may have thought he was truly declaring himself an independent voter...the individual the media loves these days.
Keep in mind the Republican party in Alaska was very corrupt at the time he did this. It took his wife's reforms to cleanup the GOP in Alaska later on, in fact.
*H/T to Freeper x for this possible explanation:
...whenever you see a reference to Palin and the Alaska Independence Party in the 90s that doesn't mention Walter Hickel, who was elected governor on that ticket in 1990, what you're reading is a smear and an attempt at manipulation.
Hickel was a former Republican Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior who ran on the AIP ticket and won. He rejected the Independence platform. Palin didn't "join" the party, he selected it as his party preference when he registered to vote, and the odds are he did it to indicate his support for Hickel, rather than for independence. More here.
It's also been said that Joe Biden voted for legislation that might lead to Hawaiian independence.
Liberal blogs have been lit up comparing Ayers to the governor's husband this past week. As usual, the media picked up the talking points of these blogs.
The typical line of the press these days has been that the McCain campaign is getting desperate, so they are attacking Obama over his relations with Ayers. If anything, this line of attack from Press looks like the media is becoming even further desperate.
*Updated at 8:45pm Est. Oct.10, 2008
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Kerry Picket is an Associate Producer at the Media Research Center's Eyeblast.tv
