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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; RENTALS} - 2.5 bath w/pool, walk to Montclair Elementary (los altos) $3900 4bd</title>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - In sketch on Corsi's detention in Kenya, Liddy played audio of "jungle telegraph drums"</title>
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On the October 7 edition of his nationally syndicated radio
program, G. Gordon Liddy discussed
the detention
of author Jerome Corsi
in Kenya and aired a sketch in which he said: "We've used the
satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in on the trial of Dr.
Jerome Corsi. ... [H]e's being accused of impersonating a human being. My
Zulu's not -- not as good as Obama's, but -- yeah, they're
really upset with him. You can probably tell." Liddy then aired a clip apparently
from the 1950 movie King Solomon's Mines, which featured
characters speaking in Kinyarwanda (not Zulu), one of the official languages of
Rwanda, and playing music on drums. Liddy continued: "This
is it. This is the -- I think the entire Obama family is getting set to do
something terrible to Dr. Corsi. I must say that Dr. Corsi appears to be
bearing up with great courage. He's a man. Dr. Corsi will show 'em
how to die. Yes, indeed." Liddy went on to say, "That is the --
says it -- the message is going out from Kenya
to our brother in America,
if I'm understanding the jungle telegraph drums correctly. 'O great
brother, born in Kenya, smuggled
into Hawaii.'
Oh, my. This does not look good for Jerry Corsi. Yes, I think they're
going to burn his book now. Matter of fact, they seem to have -- yeah,
they've piled up a lot of -- a lot of his books, and there's a big
stake in the middle of the pile." Liddy concluded: "All right, I
guess it's all over. Jerry Corsi will not be coming back, but he will
live on in our memory. Good man, good man. All right, we've lost the
satellite feed. ... But remember, you heard it here first: the death of
Jerry Corsi, under torture, by Obama's relatives in Kenya." 

Contrary to Liddy's suggestion that Obama was "born
in Kenya," as Media
Matters for America has documented, in addition to the Obama campaign's posting
of a copy of Obama's
birth certificate on its
website, the campaign also reportedly
provided the original to FactCheck.org, whose staff said in an August 21 post that they
"have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth
certificate" and concluded that the document does, in fact, exist and that it "meets all of the
requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Liddy has repeatedly and baselessly suggested that Obama was born
in Kenya, rather than in Hawaii, falsely claiming that Obama has yet to produce a U.S.
birth certificate.

Also, earlier in the broadcast, Liddy hosted Joseph Farah,
founder and editor of conservative website WorldNetDaily.com, to discuss Corsi's detention.
During the interview, Liddy asked Farah, "Now, in addition to freeing Dr.
Corsi, are you also trying to free Obama's white grandmother?"
Farah replied: "Good point. That's my next mission."
Liddy's question echoed a 2007 Newsmax.com column by Andy Martin, a
self-described "Internet journalist," titled "Free
Obama's White Grandmother." In the column, Martin wrote that Obama,
whom he called "one of the most racist politicians in America today,"
has "locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a
closet," adding: "[T]he 'segregation' of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's
white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and
most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen." As Media Matters has documented, Martin has a history of
anti-Semitic and racially charged comments. Martin recently appeared on the October 5 edition of
Fox News' Hannity's America
and baselessly claimed, among other things, that Obama's work as a community
organizer was "training for a radical overthrow of the government."

From the October 7 broadcast of Radio America's
The G. Gordon Liddy Show:


LIDDY: There you go. Folks, I just
want you to know that I'm speaking with Joseph Farah. He is the founder
and the chief editor of
WorldNetDaily. It's on the Internet at wnd.com or WorldNetDaily.com. It
is the world's first and largest
-- it's gigantic -- Internet news agency, and we're very
proud of Mr. Farah and happy to know him. OK, thank you, Joseph. From the great
state of Texas,
Brother Jim.

FRANKLIN RAFF (executive producer): Had a question for Joseph, actually.

LIDDY: Has a question -- oh, has
a question for Mr. Farah.

CALLER: OK, good morning, Joseph and
Gordon. I'm just startled by your news about Jerome Corsi being held in Kenya.
Do you think that that news will reach the debate setting tonight?

FARAH: I hope to have Mr. Corsi, Dr.
Corsi, on a plane to the U.K.
before that debate takes place. If that is not the case, I hope we can make
enough noise about this to make it an issue tonight.

LIDDY: Yeah. Now, in addition to
freeing Dr. Corsi, are you also trying to free Obama's white grandmother?

FARAH: Good point. That's my next mission.

LIDDY: OK, Joseph. God bless you.

FARAH: Thank you, guys.

LIDDY: All right. Oh, my.

[...]

[background audio clip
from King Solomon's Mines]

LIDDY: All right, ladies and
gentlemen. We've used the satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in
on the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. He's
-- he's being accused of impersonating a human being. My
Zulu's not -- not
as good as Obama's, but --
yeah, they're
really upset with him. You can probably tell. All right, I don't know -- 

[crowd chanting]

LIDDY: That
doesn't sound too good for Jerry
Corsi. What are they going to do now?

AUDIO CLIP: This is
where the fun begins.

[background audio: drums]

LIDDY: [unintelligible] This is it. This is the -- I think the entire Obama
family is getting set to do something terrible to Dr. Corsi. I must say that
Dr. Corsi appears to be bearing up with great courage. He's a man. Dr.
Corsi will show 'em how to die. Yes, indeed. That is the -- says it -- the message is going out from Kenya to our brother in America, if I'm understanding
the jungle telegraph drums correctly. "O great brother, born in Kenya, smuggled into Hawaii." 

Oh, my. This does not look good for
Jerry Corsi. Yes, I think they're going to burn his book now. Matter of fact, they seem to
have -- yeah,
they've piled up a lot of --
a lot of his books, and there's a big stake in the middle of the pile. Uh-oh.

AUDIO CLIP: It's
all right now. It's all over.


LIDDY: All right, I guess it's all over. Jerry Corsi will
not be coming back, but he will live on in our memory. Good man, good man. All
right, we've lost the satellite feed. We'll take a little break,
let you catch up to the other news. But remember, you heard it here first: the death of Jerry Corsi, under torture, by Obama's
relatives in Kenya.
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - 

On the October 7 edition of his nationally syndicated radio
program, G. Gordon Liddy discussed
the detention
of author Jerome Corsi
in Kenya and aired a sketch in which he said: "We've used the
satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in on the trial of Dr.
Jerome Corsi. ... [H]e's being accused of impersonating a human being. My
Zulu's not -- not as good as Obama's, but -- yeah, they're
really upset with him. You can probably tell." Liddy then aired a clip apparently
from the 1950 movie King Solomon's Mines, which featured
characters speaking in Kinyarwanda (not Zulu), one of the official languages of
Rwanda, and playing music on drums. Liddy continued: "This
is it. This is the -- I think the entire Obama family is getting set to do
something terrible to Dr. Corsi. I must say that Dr. Corsi appears to be
bearing up with great courage. He's a man. Dr. Corsi will show 'em
how to die. Yes, indeed." Liddy went on to say, "That is the --
says it -- the message is going out from Kenya
to our brother in America,
if I'm understanding the jungle telegraph drums correctly. 'O great
brother, born in Kenya, smuggled
into Hawaii.'
Oh, my. This does not look good for Jerry Corsi. Yes, I think they're
going to burn his book now. Matter of fact, they seem to have -- yeah,
they've piled up a lot of -- a lot of his books, and there's a big
stake in the middle of the pile." Liddy concluded: "All right, I
guess it's all over. Jerry Corsi will not be coming back, but he will
live on in our memory. Good man, good man. All right, we've lost the
satellite feed. ... But remember, you heard it here first: the death of
Jerry Corsi, under torture, by Obama's relatives in Kenya." 

Contrary to Liddy's suggestion that Obama was "born
in Kenya," as Media
Matters for America has documented, in addition to the Obama campaign's posting
of a copy of Obama's
birth certificate on its
website, the campaign also reportedly
provided the original to FactCheck.org, whose staff said in an August 21 post that they
"have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth
certificate" and concluded that the document does, in fact, exist and that it "meets all of the
requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Liddy has repeatedly and baselessly suggested that Obama was born
in Kenya, rather than in Hawaii, falsely claiming that Obama has yet to produce a U.S.
birth certificate.

Also, earlier in the broadcast, Liddy hosted Joseph Farah,
founder and editor of conservative website WorldNetDaily.com, to discuss Corsi's detention.
During the interview, Liddy asked Farah, "Now, in addition to freeing Dr.
Corsi, are you also trying to free Obama's white grandmother?"
Farah replied: "Good point. That's my next mission."
Liddy's question echoed a 2007 Newsmax.com column by Andy Martin, a
self-described "Internet journalist," titled "Free
Obama's White Grandmother." In the column, Martin wrote that Obama,
whom he called "one of the most racist politicians in America today,"
has "locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a
closet," adding: "[T]he 'segregation' of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's
white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and
most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen." As Media Matters has documented, Martin has a history of
anti-Semitic and racially charged comments. Martin recently appeared on the October 5 edition of
Fox News' Hannity's America
and baselessly claimed, among other things, that Obama's work as a community
organizer was "training for a radical overthrow of the government."

From the October 7 broadcast of Radio America's
The G. Gordon Liddy Show:


LIDDY: There you go. Folks, I just
want you to know that I'm speaking with Joseph Farah. He is the founder
and the chief editor of
WorldNetDaily. It's on the Internet at wnd.com or WorldNetDaily.com. It
is the world's first and largest
-- it's gigantic -- Internet news agency, and we're very
proud of Mr. Farah and happy to know him. OK, thank you, Joseph. From the great
state of Texas,
Brother Jim.

FRANKLIN RAFF (executive producer): Had a question for Joseph, actually.

LIDDY: Has a question -- oh, has
a question for Mr. Farah.

CALLER: OK, good morning, Joseph and
Gordon. I'm just startled by your news about Jerome Corsi being held in Kenya.
Do you think that that news will reach the debate setting tonight?

FARAH: I hope to have Mr. Corsi, Dr.
Corsi, on a plane to the U.K.
before that debate takes place. If that is not the case, I hope we can make
enough noise about this to make it an issue tonight.

LIDDY: Yeah. Now, in addition to
freeing Dr. Corsi, are you also trying to free Obama's white grandmother?

FARAH: Good point. That's my next mission.

LIDDY: OK, Joseph. God bless you.

FARAH: Thank you, guys.

LIDDY: All right. Oh, my.

[...]

[background audio clip
from King Solomon's Mines]

LIDDY: All right, ladies and
gentlemen. We've used the satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in
on the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. He's
-- he's being accused of impersonating a human being. My
Zulu's not -- not
as good as Obama's, but --
yeah, they're
really upset with him. You can probably tell. All right, I don't know -- 

[crowd chanting]

LIDDY: That
doesn't sound too good for Jerry
Corsi. What are they going to do now?

AUDIO CLIP: This is
where the fun begins.

[background audio: drums]

LIDDY: [unintelligible] This is it. This is the -- I think the entire Obama
family is getting set to do something terrible to Dr. Corsi. I must say that
Dr. Corsi appears to be bearing up with great courage. He's a man. Dr.
Corsi will show 'em how to die. Yes, indeed. That is the -- says it -- the message is going out from Kenya to our brother in America, if I'm understanding
the jungle telegraph drums correctly. "O great brother, born in Kenya, smuggled into Hawaii." 

Oh, my. This does not look good for
Jerry Corsi. Yes, I think they're going to burn his book now. Matter of fact, they seem to
have -- yeah,
they've piled up a lot of --
a lot of his books, and there's a big stake in the middle of the pile. Uh-oh.

AUDIO CLIP: It's
all right now. It's all over.


LIDDY: All right, I guess it's all over. Jerry Corsi will
not be coming back, but he will live on in our memory. Good man, good man. All
right, we've lost the satellite feed. We'll take a little break,
let you catch up to the other news. But remember, you heard it here first: the death of Jerry Corsi, under torture, by Obama's
relatives in Kenya.
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - In sketch on Corsi&#39;s detention in Kenya, Liddy played audio of "jungle telegraph drums" {...} On his radio program, G. Gordon Liddy discussed the detention of Jerome Corsi in Kenya and aired a sketch in which he said: "We&#39;ve used the satellite connection to Kenya, and we are now focusing in on the trial of Dr. Jerome Corsi. ... [H]e&#39;s being accused of impersonating a human being. My Zulu&#39;s not -- not as good as Obama&#39;s, but -- yeah, they&#39;re really upset with him. You can probably tell." Liddy then aired a clip apparently from the 1950 movie King Solomon&#39;s Mines , which featured characters speaking in Kinyarwanda (not Zulu), one of the official languages of Rwanda, and playing music on drums. {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> October 9, 2008, 11:46 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> October 10, 2008, 12:04 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;22KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Wash. Times misrepresented Obama debate comment, repeated false claim about his Pakistan comment</title>
		<link>http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/wash-times-misrepresented-obama-debate-comment-2008106287.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:39:50 GMT</pubDate>
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In an October 8 Washington
Times article,
senior White House correspondent Joseph Curl falsely suggested that, during the October 7
presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama said he doesn't think
the United States can "face the challenge" in Afghanistan
"after spending years and hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq." Curl also uncritically
reported Sen. John McCain's false claim during the debate that Obama
"threaten[ed] to invade Pakistan,"
and quoted Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that Obama has been "palling
around with terrorists" without noting Palin's distortion of a New York Times article about former
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers that she used to make that claim. Curl
also claimed that Palin's "palling around with terrorists"
remark "refers" to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in addition to Ayers, but
provided no evidence that Wright is a "terrorist."

Curl noted that, during the debate, McCain said that Obama
"does not understand our national security challenges." Curl then
asserted: "Mr. Obama countered with sarcasm, saying he didn't understand
some things -- like how the United States could face the challenge it does in
Afghanistan after spending years and hundreds of billions of dollars in
Iraq." But, as Media Matters for America noted when the Associated Press also
misrepresented Obama's comment, Obama did not say that.
Rather, Obama said: "There are some things I don't understand. There are
some things I don't understand. I don't understand how we ended up invading a
country that had nothing to do with 9-11, while Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
are setting up base camps and safe havens to train terrorists to attack
us." 

Curl also asserted that "Mr. McCain targeted his
rival's lack of experience, saying Mr. Obama foolishly threatening [sic] to
invade Pakistan
and said, 'I'm not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Senator
Obama did.' "
But as Media Matters has repeatedly noted, Obama has not
"threaten[ed] to invade Pakistan."
Rather, during an August 1, 2007, foreign policy speech, he stated: "If we have
actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani]
President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." Indeed, in comments from
the debate that Curl did not mention, Obama said:


OBAMA: Look, I -- I want to be very
clear about what I said. Nobody called for the invasion of Pakistan. Senator McCain continues
to repeat this. 

What I said was the same thing that
the audience here today heard me say, which is, if Pakistan is unable or unwilling to
hunt down bin Laden and take him out, then we should. 

Now, that I think has to be our
policy, because they are threatening to kill more Americans.


Curl went on to assert: "Mr. McCain's running mate,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accused Mr. Obama of 'palling around with
terrorists who would target their own country.' The charge refers [to] Mr. Obama's ties to
1960s-era radical William Ayers and to the Democrat's former pastor, the
incendiary Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr." Curl provided no evidence to
support the claim that Wright is a "terrorist." Moreover, Media Matters has repeatedly documented that the October 4 New York Times
article Palin
cited in making that claim reported that Obama and Ayers "do not appear
to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical
views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in
detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' " Indeed, as Washington Post White
House reporter Michael Abramowitz noted in an October 5 article, Palin's comments
are a "distortion of what the Times story concluded."

From the October 8 Washington Times article:


Mr. McCain targeted his rival's lack
of experience, saying Mr. Obama foolishly threatening to invade Pakistan
and said, "I'm not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Senator
Obama did." He also said Mr. Obama has declared he would speak directly
with leaders of rogue nations, like Iran, dismissing that stance as
naive. 

The Democrat struck back, but Mr.
McCain got the last word. 

"Now, Senator McCain suggests
that somehow, you know, I'm green behind the ears and I'm just spouting off,
and he's somber and responsible," Mr. Obama said, pausing. 

"Thank you very much," Mr.
McCain said, drawing a laugh from the crowd. He explained that when he sang the
words "bomb, bomb Iran"
to the tune of the Beach Boys "Barbara Ann," 

"I was joking with a veteran -- I hate to even go into this.
I was joking with an old veteran friend, who joked with me, about Iran."


Mr. McCain also said his rival
"was wrong about Iraq
and the surge. He was wrong about Russia
when they committed aggression against Georgia. And in his short career,
he does not understand our national security challenges. We don't have time for
on-the-job training." 

Mr. Obama countered with sarcasm,
saying he didn't understand some things -- like how the United States could
face the challenge it does in Afghanistan after spending years and hundreds of
billions of dollars in Iraq.

[...]


With just four weeks left in the
campaign, both sides have gone heavily negative. Mr. McCain's running mate,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accused Mr. Obama of "palling around with
terrorists who would target their own country." The charge refers Mr.
Obama's ties to 1960s-era radical William Ayers and to the Democrat's former
pastor, the incendiary Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - 

In an October 8 Washington
Times article,
senior White House correspondent Joseph Curl falsely suggested that, during the October 7
presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama said he doesn't think
the United States can "face the challenge" in Afghanistan
"after spending years and hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq." Curl also uncritically
reported Sen. John McCain's false claim during the debate that Obama
"threaten[ed] to invade Pakistan,"
and quoted Gov. Sarah Palin's claim that Obama has been "palling
around with terrorists" without noting Palin's distortion of a New York Times article about former
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers that she used to make that claim. Curl
also claimed that Palin's "palling around with terrorists"
remark "refers" to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in addition to Ayers, but
provided no evidence that Wright is a "terrorist."

Curl noted that, during the debate, McCain said that Obama
"does not understand our national security challenges." Curl then
asserted: "Mr. Obama countered with sarcasm, saying he didn't understand
some things -- like how the United States could face the challenge it does in
Afghanistan after spending years and hundreds of billions of dollars in
Iraq." But, as Media Matters for America noted when the Associated Press also
misrepresented Obama's comment, Obama did not say that.
Rather, Obama said: "There are some things I don't understand. There are
some things I don't understand. I don't understand how we ended up invading a
country that had nothing to do with 9-11, while Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
are setting up base camps and safe havens to train terrorists to attack
us." 

Curl also asserted that "Mr. McCain targeted his
rival's lack of experience, saying Mr. Obama foolishly threatening [sic] to
invade Pakistan
and said, 'I'm not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Senator
Obama did.' "
But as Media Matters has repeatedly noted, Obama has not
"threaten[ed] to invade Pakistan."
Rather, during an August 1, 2007, foreign policy speech, he stated: "If we have
actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and [Pakistani]
President [Pervez] Musharraf won't act, we will." Indeed, in comments from
the debate that Curl did not mention, Obama said:


OBAMA: Look, I -- I want to be very
clear about what I said. Nobody called for the invasion of Pakistan. Senator McCain continues
to repeat this. 

What I said was the same thing that
the audience here today heard me say, which is, if Pakistan is unable or unwilling to
hunt down bin Laden and take him out, then we should. 

Now, that I think has to be our
policy, because they are threatening to kill more Americans.


Curl went on to assert: "Mr. McCain's running mate,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accused Mr. Obama of 'palling around with
terrorists who would target their own country.' The charge refers [to] Mr. Obama's ties to
1960s-era radical William Ayers and to the Democrat's former pastor, the
incendiary Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr." Curl provided no evidence to
support the claim that Wright is a "terrorist." Moreover, Media Matters has repeatedly documented that the October 4 New York Times
article Palin
cited in making that claim reported that Obama and Ayers "do not appear
to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical
views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in
detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' " Indeed, as Washington Post White
House reporter Michael Abramowitz noted in an October 5 article, Palin's comments
are a "distortion of what the Times story concluded."

From the October 8 Washington Times article:


Mr. McCain targeted his rival's lack
of experience, saying Mr. Obama foolishly threatening to invade Pakistan
and said, "I'm not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Senator
Obama did." He also said Mr. Obama has declared he would speak directly
with leaders of rogue nations, like Iran, dismissing that stance as
naive. 

The Democrat struck back, but Mr.
McCain got the last word. 

"Now, Senator McCain suggests
that somehow, you know, I'm green behind the ears and I'm just spouting off,
and he's somber and responsible," Mr. Obama said, pausing. 

"Thank you very much," Mr.
McCain said, drawing a laugh from the crowd. He explained that when he sang the
words "bomb, bomb Iran"
to the tune of the Beach Boys "Barbara Ann," 

"I was joking with a veteran -- I hate to even go into this.
I was joking with an old veteran friend, who joked with me, about Iran."


Mr. McCain also said his rival
"was wrong about Iraq
and the surge. He was wrong about Russia
when they committed aggression against Georgia. And in his short career,
he does not understand our national security challenges. We don't have time for
on-the-job training." 

Mr. Obama countered with sarcasm,
saying he didn't understand some things -- like how the United States could
face the challenge it does in Afghanistan after spending years and hundreds of
billions of dollars in Iraq.

[...]


With just four weeks left in the
campaign, both sides have gone heavily negative. Mr. McCain's running mate,
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accused Mr. Obama of "palling around with
terrorists who would target their own country." The charge refers Mr.
Obama's ties to 1960s-era radical William Ayers and to the Democrat's former
pastor, the incendiary Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Fox News' Sammon ignores contrary evidence in suggesting that Rep. Frank allowed personal relationship to affect his oversight of Fannie Mae</title>
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On
the October 6 edition of Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor, deputy Washington managing editor Bill Sammon
suggested that Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) allowed his relationship in the 1990s
with Herb Moses, a Fannie
Mae official at the
time, to improperly influence his conduct as a member of the
House Financial Services
Committee, which was responsible for
oversight of Fannie Mae. Sammon was echoing and amplifying claims
he had made in an October 3 article on FoxNews.com, in which he asserted that
"[u]nqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae
throughout the 1990s. So did Frank's partner, a Fannie Mae executive at
the forefront of the agency's push to relax lending restrictions."
In his article, however, Sammon cited only two sources: an anonymous Republican congressional
staffer and Dan Gainor, who, Sammon did not note, is part of the conservative Media Research
 Center. Moreover, Sammon misrepresented Frank's record by reporting
in his article that Frank "spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from
imposing tougher regulations" on Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac. While Sammon pointed to an example of Frank opposing a regulation on
Frannie Mae, Sammon did
not note in his article or on The O'Reilly Factor that Frank supported bills to increase regulation of Fannie Mae and
create a government regulatory agency that would supervise and have authority
over some aspects of the
company.

In
his FoxNews.com
article, Sammon wrote:
"Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992 that they took
pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics, however, remain
skeptical." Sammon offered two "critics": Gainor, identified
as "vice president of the Business &amp; Media Institute" and "a T.
Boone Pickens Fellow,"
and an unnamed "top GOP House aide"
who "agreed" with Gainor. In fact, the Business
and Media Institute is a division of the
conservative Media Research Center,
and the full name of
Gainor's fellowship is the "The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
for the Media Research Center."
Additionally, Sammon did not explain why he granted anonymity to a Republican
aide to criticize Frank, a Democrat. Moreover, while Sammon reported that these critics were
"skeptical" of Frank and Moses' statement that "they
took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest," Sammon did not quote
either source citing any instance of alleged impropriety on Frank's
part.

Beyond
these "critics," Sammon wrote in his article that "[a]lthough
Frank now blames Republicans for the failure of Fannie and Freddie, he spent
years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing tougher regulations on the mortgage
giants." Sammon continued: "In 1991, the year Moses was hired by
Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen
regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were
defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes,
respectively." Sammon made the link more explicitly during his appearance
on The
O'Reilly Factor: 


BILL O'REILLY (host): Did Frank basically
do anything wrong? Could -- is
there a conflict of interest or can
-- is there a trail back that says, "Barney
Frank did this wrong"?
[...] But did he do
anything wrong?

SAMMON: I don't think he did anything technically
illegal. You can quarrel with his judgment in blocking people from imposing
regulations on Fannie and Freddie. For example, there was one example where
they wanted to put in a regulation that would tighten up mortgage rules, and Barney Frank was
arguing that they ought to be loosened
for, for example, two-family
homes and three-family
homes, which had --



However,
Sammon provided no explanation for how Frank's "push[ing]" Fannie Mae to do something it was reportedly resisting demonstrated favoritism
toward Fannie Mae or bore any relation to his relationship to Moses. Indeed,
the November 22, 1991, Globe article that Sammon cited does not mention Moses at
all. Nor did Sammon note that
the Globe reported that Frank was
not the only public official asking Fannie Mae to cover two- and three-family
loans. In the second paragraph of the article, the Globe reported that
"representatives of [then-Boston] Mayor [Raymond] Flynn and [then] Rep.
Joseph P. Kennedy 2d (D-Mass.)" were involved in negotiations with Fannie
over covering such loans, while mentioning
Frank later in the article as also having been involved in discussions. 

From the Globe article (retrieved from the Nexis database):



The federally chartered
mortgage company Fannie Mae yesterday agreed to modify its rules restricting
purchases of two-family and three-decker homes -- rules that housing advocates
contend unfairly exclude low- and moderate-income families from buying homes in
Boston.

After a nearly
three-hour meeting with members of the Home Buyers' Union, a local advocacy
group, and representatives of Mayor Flynn and Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy 2d
(D-Mass.), Fannie Mae officials agreed to substantially alter rules to allow
what one termed "hundreds if not thousands" of buyers a chance to own
two-family homes and three-deckers.

The two sides failed to
agree on exact percentages of debt that buyers will be allowed to carry, but
Fannie Mae officials agreed to return to the bargaining table in two weeks,
according to members of the union.

Earlier yesterday the
officials, trailed by housing advocates and representatives of elected
officials, toured a two-family home on Dorchester's
Downer Avenue.

The multi-billion
dollar Federal National Mortgage Association buys mortgages made by area banks
so as to free up capital to allow banks to make more loans. But in recent
years, Fannie Mae has not fully counted rental income from multi-family homes
against the buyers' debt burden -- thereby refusing to purchase mortgages made
to all but high-income buyers.

Fannie Mae national spokesman
David Jeffers said yesterday that the mortgage company restricted purchases of
mortgages on multi-family homes after it saw many such mortgages go into
default during the real estate slowdown.

He said the default
rate on mortgages on two-family homes is twice that of single-family homes, and
the rate for three-deckers is five times the rate for single-family dwellings.

But Jeffers said that
after discussions with area homeowners, housing advocates, Kennedy and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Fannie Mae
officials agreed to purchase the mortgages made under the state's "soft
second" program, the primary source of mortgages for first-time homebuyers
of low and moderate means. 


Moreover,
Sammon did not mention in either his FoxNews.com
article or during his O'Reilly Factor appearance that earlier in
1991, Frank voted in favor of
legislation that increased
government regulation and oversight of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac. On
September 30, 1991, Frank voted for a bill to create a
new regulatory agency to oversee Fannie and Freddie, which were government-sponsored enterprises until they
were taken over by the federal government on September 8, 2008.
According to the bill's Congressional Research Service summary, the bill
"[r]equire[d] the [agency's] Director to establish by regulation a
risk-based capital test for the enterprises," "[r]equire[d] the Director to establish
risk-based capital levels for each enterprise according to statutory
guidelines," "[e]stablishe[d] minimum capital levels,
critical capital levels, and enforcement levels," and "[s]et[] forth mandatory supervisory
actions for the enterprises at various capital levels, including mandatory
conservatorship." According to an August 5, 1991, column by the Boston Globe ombudsman, Moses was already working for Fannie Mae in
August 1991. In October 1992, Frank voted for the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1992,
which created the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO). According to the Congressional Research
Service summary of the bill, OFHEO was
tasked with "ensur[ing] that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the enterprises)
and their affiliates are adequately capitalized and operating safely." As with the bill Frank voted for in
September 1991, the new law gave OFHEO authority to set, monitor, and enforce risk-based
capital requirements for Fannie and Freddie.

In
addition, on The
O'Reilly Factor,
Sammon suggested that
Frank hadn't "declare[d] the possibility of a conflict of
interest." "That didn't happen," Sammon said. But in his FoxNews.com article, Sammon
wrote that "[b]oth Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992
that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest."

From
the October 3 FoxNews.com
article titled "Lawmaker accused of Fannie Mae Conflict of
Interest": 


Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who
benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's efforts to deregulate
Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.

So did Frank's partner, a Fannie Mae executive
at the forefront of the agency's push to relax lending restrictions.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial
meltdown that threatens the U.S.
economy, some are raising new questions about Frank's relationship with Herb
Moses, who was Fannie's assistant director for product initiatives. Moses
worked at the government-sponsored enterprise from 1991 to 1998, while Frank was
on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over Fannie.

Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal
in 1992 that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics,
however, remain skeptical.

"It's absolutely a conflict," said Dan
Gainor, vice president of the Business &amp; Media Institute. "He was
voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae
executive. How is that not germane?

"If this had been his ex-wife and he was
Republican, I would bet every penny I have -- or at least what's not in the stock
market -- that this
would be considered germane," added Gainor, a T. Boone Pickens Fellow.
"But everybody wants to avoid it because he's gay. It's the
quintessential double standard."

A top GOP House aide agreed.

"C'mon, he writes housing and banking laws
and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those
laws?" the aide told FOX News. "No media ever takes note? Imagine
what would happen if Frank's political affiliation was R instead of D?
Imagine what the media would say if [GOP
former] Chairman [Mike] Oxley's wife or [GOP presidential nominee John] McCain's
wife was a top exec at Fannie for a decade while they wrote the nation's
housing and banking laws."

[...]

Although Frank now blames Republicans for the failure
of Fannie and Freddie, he spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing
tougher regulations on the mortgage giants. In 1991, the year Moses was hired
by Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen
regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were
defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes, respectively.

Three years later, President Clinton's
Department of Housing and Urban Development tried to impose a new regulation on
Fannie, but was thwarted by Frank. Clinton
now blames such Democrats for planting the seeds of today's economic
crisis.

"I think the responsibility that the Democrats have
may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me
when I was president, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac," Clinton
said recently. 


From
the October 6 edition of Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor: 


O'REILLY: Now, not only did the congressman have
oversight on Fannie Mae for the past two years, but back in the 1990s, he had an affair with a guy
named Herb Moses, an executive at Fannie Mae at the time Frank was on the House
Banking Committee.

Joining us now from D.C., Fox News Washington deputy editor Bill Sammon. So, why should we care, 10 years ago -- that's when -- and I guess it was a
long-term relationship between these two men. Why should we care about that?

SAMMON: Well,
because that's when the seeds of today's crisis were sown, Bill. I mean, Barney Frank on your
show talked about how he supported,
you know, reform legislation 2007-2008. It was too late by then. I mean, by -- you know, by the time the legislation that kicked in July 30th of
this year was passed, Fannie and Freddie stocks had dropped 80 percent so far
this year. So, the
housing market was already in a meltdown.

We're
talking in my story about -- and
what you're
referring to with Barney
Frank and his relationship with Herb Moses -- that happened during the 1990s when
Republicans and even some cases President Clinton was trying to put regulations
on Fannie and Freddie. Barney Frank was backing off these efforts.

Meanwhile, his partner was an executive in Fannie Mae, and he was charged with make-- with basically
loosening mortgage regulations.

O'REILLY: OK. Now, Frank at the time was on the committee but not the
chair. And, you know, he had a voice,
but he's a voice
of many. When he gets to be the chair in 2007, he says -- Frank says, "Hey, I tried to get something done. I put this oversight thing in. It finally got passed, but it just took so long that it didn't have any
effect. So, don't blame
me. I didn't do
anything wrong."
And you say?

SAMMON: Well,
I say, again, a little too
little, too late. And again, imagine if the shoe
were on the other foot. Imagine if a Republican, say, Larry Craig, had a gay partner on the -- a federal -- on the agency that he was
charged with regulating.
Even if he only had a
voice, even if he wasn't the chairman,
wouldn't it behoove
that member to recuse themselves or at least declare the possibility of a
conflict of interest?

This didn't happen. Barney Frank continued to have this
relationship and continued to work on this committee. At the time, it was called the Banking
Committee. And the press didn't raise an eyebrow. If you switch that around and
put in a Republican -- even if it wasn't a gay relationship. So
let's say a Republican had a mistress or a wife or a girlfriend
on an agency that Republican was supposed to be regulating. The press would go
ballistic.

But because it's Barney Frank and because it's a Democrat and because it's the whole
gay thing, they have
not touched it because they consider it radioactive.

O'REILLY: Did Frank basically do anything wrong? Could -- is there a conflict
of interest or can -- is
there a trail back that says,
"Barney Frank did
this wrong"? Now,
I hold him accountable because he won't admit that he did a poor job in
overseeing. And then, in July --
and we played this bite
-- in July, he basically put a happy
face on it. "Oh, I mean,
it's not the best investment, but it's solid,
and we're going forward" --
blah blah blah. Bull.
But did he do anything wrong?

SAMMON: I don't think he did anything technically
illegal. You can quarrel with his judgment in blocking people from imposing
regulations on Fannie and Freddie. For example, there was one example where
they wanted to put in a regulation that would tighten up mortgage rules, and Barney Frank was
arguing that they ought to be loosened
for, for example, two-family
homes and three-family
homes, which had --


O'REILLY: Yeah,
he wanted more money to go to poor and lower-middle-class people, so we know that was -- he admitted that. All
right. 
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - 

On
the October 6 edition of Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor, deputy Washington managing editor Bill Sammon
suggested that Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) allowed his relationship in the 1990s
with Herb Moses, a Fannie
Mae official at the
time, to improperly influence his conduct as a member of the
House Financial Services
Committee, which was responsible for
oversight of Fannie Mae. Sammon was echoing and amplifying claims
he had made in an October 3 article on FoxNews.com, in which he asserted that
"[u]nqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae
throughout the 1990s. So did Frank's partner, a Fannie Mae executive at
the forefront of the agency's push to relax lending restrictions."
In his article, however, Sammon cited only two sources: an anonymous Republican congressional
staffer and Dan Gainor, who, Sammon did not note, is part of the conservative Media Research
 Center. Moreover, Sammon misrepresented Frank's record by reporting
in his article that Frank "spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from
imposing tougher regulations" on Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac. While Sammon pointed to an example of Frank opposing a regulation on
Frannie Mae, Sammon did
not note in his article or on The O'Reilly Factor that Frank supported bills to increase regulation of Fannie Mae and
create a government regulatory agency that would supervise and have authority
over some aspects of the
company.

In
his FoxNews.com
article, Sammon wrote:
"Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992 that they took
pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics, however, remain
skeptical." Sammon offered two "critics": Gainor, identified
as "vice president of the Business & Media Institute" and "a T.
Boone Pickens Fellow,"
and an unnamed "top GOP House aide"
who "agreed" with Gainor. In fact, the Business
and Media Institute is a division of the
conservative Media Research Center,
and the full name of
Gainor's fellowship is the "The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
for the Media Research Center."
Additionally, Sammon did not explain why he granted anonymity to a Republican
aide to criticize Frank, a Democrat. Moreover, while Sammon reported that these critics were
"skeptical" of Frank and Moses' statement that "they
took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest," Sammon did not quote
either source citing any instance of alleged impropriety on Frank's
part.

Beyond
these "critics," Sammon wrote in his article that "[a]lthough
Frank now blames Republicans for the failure of Fannie and Freddie, he spent
years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing tougher regulations on the mortgage
giants." Sammon continued: "In 1991, the year Moses was hired by
Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen
regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were
defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes,
respectively." Sammon made the link more explicitly during his appearance
on The
O'Reilly Factor: 


BILL O'REILLY (host): Did Frank basically
do anything wrong? Could -- is
there a conflict of interest or can
-- is there a trail back that says, "Barney
Frank did this wrong"?
[...] But did he do
anything wrong?

SAMMON: I don't think he did anything technically
illegal. You can quarrel with his judgment in blocking people from imposing
regulations on Fannie and Freddie. For example, there was one example where
they wanted to put in a regulation that would tighten up mortgage rules, and Barney Frank was
arguing that they ought to be loosened
for, for example, two-family
homes and three-family
homes, which had --



However,
Sammon provided no explanation for how Frank's "push[ing]" Fannie Mae to do something it was reportedly resisting demonstrated favoritism
toward Fannie Mae or bore any relation to his relationship to Moses. Indeed,
the November 22, 1991, Globe article that Sammon cited does not mention Moses at
all. Nor did Sammon note that
the Globe reported that Frank was
not the only public official asking Fannie Mae to cover two- and three-family
loans. In the second paragraph of the article, the Globe reported that
"representatives of [then-Boston] Mayor [Raymond] Flynn and [then] Rep.
Joseph P. Kennedy 2d (D-Mass.)" were involved in negotiations with Fannie
over covering such loans, while mentioning
Frank later in the article as also having been involved in discussions. 

From the Globe article (retrieved from the Nexis database):



The federally chartered
mortgage company Fannie Mae yesterday agreed to modify its rules restricting
purchases of two-family and three-decker homes -- rules that housing advocates
contend unfairly exclude low- and moderate-income families from buying homes in
Boston.

After a nearly
three-hour meeting with members of the Home Buyers' Union, a local advocacy
group, and representatives of Mayor Flynn and Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy 2d
(D-Mass.), Fannie Mae officials agreed to substantially alter rules to allow
what one termed "hundreds if not thousands" of buyers a chance to own
two-family homes and three-deckers.

The two sides failed to
agree on exact percentages of debt that buyers will be allowed to carry, but
Fannie Mae officials agreed to return to the bargaining table in two weeks,
according to members of the union.

Earlier yesterday the
officials, trailed by housing advocates and representatives of elected
officials, toured a two-family home on Dorchester's
Downer Avenue.

The multi-billion
dollar Federal National Mortgage Association buys mortgages made by area banks
so as to free up capital to allow banks to make more loans. But in recent
years, Fannie Mae has not fully counted rental income from multi-family homes
against the buyers' debt burden -- thereby refusing to purchase mortgages made
to all but high-income buyers.

Fannie Mae national spokesman
David Jeffers said yesterday that the mortgage company restricted purchases of
mortgages on multi-family homes after it saw many such mortgages go into
default during the real estate slowdown.

He said the default
rate on mortgages on two-family homes is twice that of single-family homes, and
the rate for three-deckers is five times the rate for single-family dwellings.

But Jeffers said that
after discussions with area homeowners, housing advocates, Kennedy and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Fannie Mae
officials agreed to purchase the mortgages made under the state's "soft
second" program, the primary source of mortgages for first-time homebuyers
of low and moderate means. 


Moreover,
Sammon did not mention in either his FoxNews.com
article or during his O'Reilly Factor appearance that earlier in
1991, Frank voted in favor of
legislation that increased
government regulation and oversight of Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac. On
September 30, 1991, Frank voted for a bill to create a
new regulatory agency to oversee Fannie and Freddie, which were government-sponsored enterprises until they
were taken over by the federal government on September 8, 2008.
According to the bill's Congressional Research Service summary, the bill
"[r]equire[d] the [agency's] Director to establish by regulation a
risk-based capital test for the enterprises," "[r]equire[d] the Director to establish
risk-based capital levels for each enterprise according to statutory
guidelines," "[e]stablishe[d] minimum capital levels,
critical capital levels, and enforcement levels," and "[s]et[] forth mandatory supervisory
actions for the enterprises at various capital levels, including mandatory
conservatorship." According to an August 5, 1991, column by the Boston Globe ombudsman, Moses was already working for Fannie Mae in
August 1991. In October 1992, Frank voted for the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1992,
which created the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO). According to the Congressional Research
Service summary of the bill, OFHEO was
tasked with "ensur[ing] that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the enterprises)
and their affiliates are adequately capitalized and operating safely." As with the bill Frank voted for in
September 1991, the new law gave OFHEO authority to set, monitor, and enforce risk-based
capital requirements for Fannie and Freddie.

In
addition, on The
O'Reilly Factor,
Sammon suggested that
Frank hadn't "declare[d] the possibility of a conflict of
interest." "That didn't happen," Sammon said. But in his FoxNews.com article, Sammon
wrote that "[b]oth Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992
that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest."

From
the October 3 FoxNews.com
article titled "Lawmaker accused of Fannie Mae Conflict of
Interest": 


Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who
benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's efforts to deregulate
Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.

So did Frank's partner, a Fannie Mae executive
at the forefront of the agency's push to relax lending restrictions.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial
meltdown that threatens the U.S.
economy, some are raising new questions about Frank's relationship with Herb
Moses, who was Fannie's assistant director for product initiatives. Moses
worked at the government-sponsored enterprise from 1991 to 1998, while Frank was
on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over Fannie.

Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal
in 1992 that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics,
however, remain skeptical.

"It's absolutely a conflict," said Dan
Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute. "He was
voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae
executive. How is that not germane?

"If this had been his ex-wife and he was
Republican, I would bet every penny I have -- or at least what's not in the stock
market -- that this
would be considered germane," added Gainor, a T. Boone Pickens Fellow.
"But everybody wants to avoid it because he's gay. It's the
quintessential double standard."

A top GOP House aide agreed.

"C'mon, he writes housing and banking laws
and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those
laws?" the aide told FOX News. "No media ever takes note? Imagine
what would happen if Frank's political affiliation was R instead of D?
Imagine what the media would say if [GOP
former] Chairman [Mike] Oxley's wife or [GOP presidential nominee John] McCain's
wife was a top exec at Fannie for a decade while they wrote the nation's
housing and banking laws."

[...]

Although Frank now blames Republicans for the failure
of Fannie and Freddie, he spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing
tougher regulations on the mortgage giants. In 1991, the year Moses was hired
by Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen
regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were
defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes, respectively.

Three years later, President Clinton's
Department of Housing and Urban Development tried to impose a new regulation on
Fannie, but was thwarted by Frank. Clinton
now blames such Democrats for planting the seeds of today's economic
crisis.

"I think the responsibility that the Democrats have
may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me
when I was president, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac," Clinton
said recently. 


From
the October 6 edition of Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor: 


O'REILLY: Now, not only did the congressman have
oversight on Fannie Mae for the past two years, but back in the 1990s, he had an affair with a guy
named Herb Moses, an executive at Fannie Mae at the time Frank was on the House
Banking Committee.

Joining us now from D.C., Fox News Washington deputy editor Bill Sammon. So, why should we care, 10 years ago -- that's when -- and I guess it was a
long-term relationship between these two men. Why should we care about that?

SAMMON: Well,
because that's when the seeds of today's crisis were sown, Bill. I mean, Barney Frank on your
show talked about how he supported,
you know, reform legislation 2007-2008. It was too late by then. I mean, by -- you know, by the time the legislation that kicked in July 30th of
this year was passed, Fannie and Freddie stocks had dropped 80 percent so far
this year. So, the
housing market was already in a meltdown.

We're
talking in my story about -- and
what you're
referring to with Barney
Frank and his relationship with Herb Moses -- that happened during the 1990s when
Republicans and even some cases President Clinton was trying to put regulations
on Fannie and Freddie. Barney Frank was backing off these efforts.

Meanwhile, his partner was an executive in Fannie Mae, and he was charged with make-- with basically
loosening mortgage regulations.

O'REILLY: OK. Now, Frank at the time was on the committee but not the
chair. And, you know, he had a voice,
but he's a voice
of many. When he gets to be the chair in 2007, he says -- Frank says, "Hey, I tried to get something done. I put this oversight thing in. It finally got passed, but it just took so long that it didn't have any
effect. So, don't blame
me. I didn't do
anything wrong."
And you say?

SAMMON: Well,
I say, again, a little too
little, too late. And again, imagine if the shoe
were on the other foot. Imagine if a Republican, say, Larry Craig, had a gay partner on the -- a federal -- on the agency that he was
charged with regulating.
Even if he only had a
voice, even if he wasn't the chairman,
wouldn't it behoove
that member to recuse themselves or at least declare the possibility of a
conflict of interest?

This didn't happen. Barney Frank continued to have this
relationship and continued to work on this committee. At the time, it was called the Banking
Committee. And the press didn't raise an eyebrow. If you switch that around and
put in a Republican -- even if it wasn't a gay relationship. So
let's say a Republican had a mistress or a wife or a girlfriend
on an agency that Republican was supposed to be regulating. The press would go
ballistic.

But because it's Barney Frank and because it's a Democrat and because it's the whole
gay thing, they have
not touched it because they consider it radioactive.

O'REILLY: Did Frank basically do anything wrong? Could -- is there a conflict
of interest or can -- is
there a trail back that says,
"Barney Frank did
this wrong"? Now,
I hold him accountable because he won't admit that he did a poor job in
overseeing. And then, in July --
and we played this bite
-- in July, he basically put a happy
face on it. "Oh, I mean,
it's not the best investment, but it's solid,
and we're going forward" --
blah blah blah. Bull.
But did he do anything wrong?

SAMMON: I don't think he did anything technically
illegal. You can quarrel with his judgment in blocking people from imposing
regulations on Fannie and Freddie. For example, there was one example where
they wanted to put in a regulation that would tighten up mortgage rules, and Barney Frank was
arguing that they ought to be loosened
for, for example, two-family
homes and three-family
homes, which had --


O'REILLY: Yeah,
he wanted more money to go to poor and lower-middle-class people, so we know that was -- he admitted that. All
right. 
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - Victorian Cottage in the Castro, Quiet side street. Best Location (castro / upper market) $150 1bd</title>
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Upcoming rental dates  3 night minimum







Oct 6th -13th  (check out day) 



Oct 22nd-24th (check out day) 



Oct 27th-31st (check out day) 





The cottage is roomy but has a two person maximum.



150.00 per night (3 night minimum)

200.00 damage / security deposit (refundable)

50.00 cleaning fee



Welcome to Landers Cottage, a small 1890Âs single family house nestled on a beautiful side street in one of the cityÂs oldest neighborhoods. Perfect for visitors looking for traditional San Francisco charm as well as a desire for privacy.

The cottage offers a cheerful living space (up one flight of stairs) and a private entrance. It underwent major restoration to restore it to an 1890's period style but with all the modern touches. While only 575 square feet, it wisely uses every inch to make it feel comfortable and roomy.

Non smoking house but allowed on the rear porch and in the shared courtyard garden. You will love having your tea or coffee in the sunny garden. Your hosts live next door and are happy to help with sightseeing arrangements or any questions about seeing the city.

Best location for seeing San Francisco without a car (street parking only),it is in the geographic center of the city, a half block from the oldest building in town, Mission Dolores Church. Located three blocks from 16th and Mission BART station which serves both San Francisco and Oakland Airports.



Public transportation nearby connects you to the entire city by buses, rail system, subway and F Market Historic Trolley which travels to Civic Center, Powell Street, Embarcadero and Fisherman's Wharf. Museums, theaters, parks and most other attractions are within a short bus ride as are the Haight-Ashbury and Noe Valley neighborhoods.

Within walking distance are the Castro district and the hip Mission/ Valencia corridor, both known for their shopping, restaurants and night life. World class shopping and dining including such restaurants as Limon, Delfinia, Tartaine, 2223 Market, as well as local favorites Chow, Home and Catch.

Ethnic diversity also abounds with cuisines such as Chinese, Japanese ,Viet Namese, Thai, Mexican, Indian, Italian, 24 Hour Diner- all within 3 blocks. Major grocery store, organic markets and fruit stands within blocks.

Arrive to find a guest basket filled with fresh fruit, famous San Francisco coffee, tea, and Joseph Schmidt truffles on the night stand, warm bathrobes in the closet for your lazy mornings.

Details:

- Living room with comfortable furnishings

- Bedroom with queen sized bed

- Full kitchen newly restored to a 1900Âs look with beautiful antique cupboards, maple counter tops, Gas range, Microwave, Dishwasher,under counter lights

- Full bathroom with shower over tub &amp; vintage Victorian marble sink

- Wi-Fi wireless, bring your laptop

- Cable TV and stereo system

- Beautiful antique built in hutch desk with stained glass doors

- Large closet plus big storage area for all your suitcases

- Antique light fixtures

- Natural morning and afternoon light

- Original soft wood floors in Living Room, Bed Room and Kitchen

- Central Heat

- Small covered porch off kitchen looks on to shared sunny courtyard garden.

- Fully stocked with kitchen stuff/linens. Vacation or corporate rental ready.

- Quiet (urban) neighborhood with great neighbors

- Street parking is limited, therefore public transport is suggested. Larger vehicles will be very difficult to park on the busy city streets.

Please contact us for additional information about this ideal San Francisco getaway, and any other questions you may have about the neighborhood or house. </description>
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Upcoming rental dates  3 night minimum







Oct 6th -13th  (check out day) 



Oct 22nd-24th (check out day) 



Oct 27th-31st (check out day) 





The cottage is roomy but has a two person maximum.



150.00 per night (3 night minimum)

200.00 damage / security deposit (refundable)

50.00 cleaning fee



Welcome to Landers Cottage, a small 1890Âs single family house nestled on a beautiful side street in one of the cityÂs oldest neighborhoods. Perfect for visitors looking for traditional San Francisco charm as well as a desire for privacy.

The cottage offers a cheerful living space (up one flight of stairs) and a private entrance. It underwent major restoration to restore it to an 1890's period style but with all the modern touches. While only 575 square feet, it wisely uses every inch to make it feel comfortable and roomy.

Non smoking house but allowed on the rear porch and in the shared courtyard garden. You will love having your tea or coffee in the sunny garden. Your hosts live next door and are happy to help with sightseeing arrangements or any questions about seeing the city.

Best location for seeing San Francisco without a car (street parking only),it is in the geographic center of the city, a half block from the oldest building in town, Mission Dolores Church. Located three blocks from 16th and Mission BART station which serves both San Francisco and Oakland Airports.



Public transportation nearby connects you to the entire city by buses, rail system, subway and F Market Historic Trolley which travels to Civic Center, Powell Street, Embarcadero and Fisherman's Wharf. Museums, theaters, parks and most other attractions are within a short bus ride as are the Haight-Ashbury and Noe Valley neighborhoods.

Within walking distance are the Castro district and the hip Mission/ Valencia corridor, both known for their shopping, restaurants and night life. World class shopping and dining including such restaurants as Limon, Delfinia, Tartaine, 2223 Market, as well as local favorites Chow, Home and Catch.

Ethnic diversity also abounds with cuisines such as Chinese, Japanese ,Viet Namese, Thai, Mexican, Indian, Italian, 24 Hour Diner- all within 3 blocks. Major grocery store, organic markets and fruit stands within blocks.

Arrive to find a guest basket filled with fresh fruit, famous San Francisco coffee, tea, and Joseph Schmidt truffles on the night stand, warm bathrobes in the closet for your lazy mornings.

Details:

- Living room with comfortable furnishings

- Bedroom with queen sized bed

- Full kitchen newly restored to a 1900Âs look with beautiful antique cupboards, maple counter tops, Gas range, Microwave, Dishwasher,under counter lights

- Full bathroom with shower over tub & vintage Victorian marble sink

- Wi-Fi wireless, bring your laptop

- Cable TV and stereo system

- Beautiful antique built in hutch desk with stained glass doors

- Large closet plus big storage area for all your suitcases

- Antique light fixtures

- Natural morning and afternoon light

- Original soft wood floors in Living Room, Bed Room and Kitchen

- Central Heat

- Small covered porch off kitchen looks on to shared sunny courtyard garden.

- Fully stocked with kitchen stuff/linens. Vacation or corporate rental ready.

- Quiet (urban) neighborhood with great neighbors

- Street parking is limited, therefore public transport is suggested. Larger vehicles will be very difficult to park on the busy city streets.

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		<title>{LITERATURE &gt; RSS FEEDS} - Seeds Shifts Paradigms</title>
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Editor (and frequent SCI FI Wire contributor) John Joseph Adams told SCI FI Wire that his new SF anthology Seeds of Change is a political work, but not a partisan one. The collection of nine stories by authors including Jay Lake, Ken MacLeod, K.D. Wentworth and Jeremiah Tolbert is published by Prime Books.
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Media have repeatedly asserted Palin faces "low" or "lowered" expectations in debate, despite praise of her debate skills</title>
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		<description>Several members of the media, including MSNBC anchors and guests and an NPR reporter, have
asserted that Gov. Sarah Palin faces "low" or "lowered"
expectations in the upcoming vice-presidential debate and that she therefore
faces a lower bar for victory than Sen. Joe Biden. They have made these
assertions -- that she will win if she simply beats (lowered) expectations
-- despite criticism by at least one member of the media over the media's
setting of a lower
bar for Palin, despite praise of her performance in the Alaska gubernatorial
debate by others in the media, and despite McCain campaign surrogate Mitt
Romney's touting of her debate skills. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts,
stated on the September 29 broadcast
of NBC's Today: "I think if you looked at her
debate performance as the governor of Alaska, you're gonna see a
person who can hold her own. She's a very competent, well-spoken,
thoughtful individual,
and I think she's gonna do real well." Nonetheless, Romney also remarked on the
benefit to her of the "creat[ion of] low expectations."

Examples of media figures
asserting or suggesting that Palin stands to benefit from low expectations:

During a discussion of Palin on the September 28
edition of Fox News Sunday, NPR
national political correspondent Mara Liasson asserted: "But for this debate, no one is going to benefit more from low expectations
than Sarah Palin. She has got about the lowest
expectations. People think she's going to come on and babble incoherently, and
I think she's going to do just fine."
During the 8 a.m. ET hour of the September 28
edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Alex Witt asked,
"How about this: Are expectations so low for Palin that she can't help
but do better than what people expect?" Reuters Washington correspondent
Jon Decker replied, "[E]xpectations are extremely low for her going into
the Thursday night's debate. You like expectations
low going into a debate, that's for sure.
And if she can beat those expectations, it will be a good night for Sarah
Palin."
During the 9 a.m. ET hour of the September 28
edition of MSNBC Live, Witt asserted of Palin:
"Lowered expectation because of some
critical reviews of her network interviews. Do you think that lowered
expectations will actually help her and might the campaign folks be
micromanaging her now and not letting her personality come out?" Roll Call reporter Emily Heil replied:
"[C]ertainly,
those lowered expectations, if she does kind of well, I think most people will
call it a success."
During the noon ET
hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC Live, Witt asked: "[W]hen you talk about the expectations
being lowered for Sarah Palin, and that certainly seems to be the consensus
that we've been hearing throughout this day here on MSNBC Sunday, does
that mean that she just has to go out there and be herself, as many have
suggested, showing her personality?" 
During the 11 a.m. ET hour of the September 29
edition of MSNBC Live, after anchor Tamron Hall asked
if "low expectations actually help" Palin and "on the flip
side, is it fair that Joe Biden might be held to a higher standard," Newsweek correspondent Suzanne Smalley
replied, "Well, I think that you're right to mention low
expectations. That is something Sarah Palin has going for her."
During 3 p.m.
ET hour of the September 30 edition of MSNBC
Live, NBC News correspondent Savannah Guthrie said of the McCain campaign's expectations regarding
Palin's performance, "If she just survives on Thursday, I
think they'll be pleased." She
also reported that the "party line I'm hearing today,
which is to keep those
expectations low, to say, 'Let Palin be Palin. She's not running to be head of the debate
club, and that's not what Americans want.'"
As Media Matters
for America documented, CNN senior political
analyst Gloria Borger asserted that "the bar is, first of all, on the
floor for Sarah Palin" for the debate, to which senior legal analyst
Jeffrey Toobin responded that "it's not our job" to "sort of
create these expectations."


Notwithstanding claims
by these media figures that
expectations are "lower" for Palin, some in the media have praised Palin's
debating abilities based on her performance in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial debate. National Review White House correspondent
Byron York wrote in a September
8 post to the
National Review Online blog
The Corner: "[A]ll I have to say is that
Palin was good
-- really good. It wasn't a debate in which
the candidates were in each other's faces or throwing out zingers, but Palin
clearly outshone her rivals --
especially [former Alaska Gov. Frank]
Murkowski, the longtime senator who played the role of the
experienced statesman." Similarly, in a post to the Time.com blog Swampland, national political correspondent Karen
Tumulty described Palin's gubernatorial debate performance as
"impressive," adding that Palin "is also very good on her
feet." Tumulty went on to write:
"That's why Joe Biden should be wary, especially since she will have
expectations very much in her favor." 

In addition, MSNBC Live's Hall asked Newsweek national correspondent Suzanne
Smalley if the vice-presidential debate, which Hall said will have "more
structure" than the campaign trail,
will "help
Governor Palin."
Smalley replied, in part:


I think that the structure may be
harder. It's easy when you're talking off the cuff to take a moment
and think, but when you're under the glaring lights of a national TV
audience and millions of people watching and having to speak for an hour and a
half nonstop against somebody like Joe Biden, who's been doing this for
so long, it's a really tough position for anybody who's fairly new
on the national political scene. So it's gonna be a challenge for
her.


In asserting the purported benefit to Biden
of the "structure," Smalley did not note that the McCain campaign reportedly
"fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning
at the vice-presidential debate." According to a September 20 New York Times article: 


At the insistence of the McCain
campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president,
Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will
have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential
nominees, the advisers said. There will also be much less opportunity for
free-wheeling, direct exchanges between the running mates. 


From the September 28 edition of Fox News Sunday: 


JUAN WILLIAMS (Fox News political contributor and NPR news analyst):
But with regard to Palin, let me just say, they wouldn't
even put Palin in the spin room after the debates. Joe Biden was out there in the
spin room.

BRIT HUME (Fox News Washington
managing editor): Right.

WILLIAMS: And I think that, you
know, when Bill [Kristol] says that they're mismanaging her -- the idea they
put her out there with the world leaders of the U.N. -- she looked bumbly. She
wouldn't even talk to reporters then. She goes on with [Fox News host] Sean Hannity, our friend. And
what happens? She can't even talk about the bailout effectively. And with [CBS
Evening News anchor] Katie Couric, it was an implosion.

LIASSON: But for this debate, no one is going to benefit more from low expectations
than Sarah Palin. She has got about the lowest
expectations. People think she's going to come on and babble incoherently, and
I think she's going to do just fine.

CHRIS WALLACE (host): Brit, you get the final word about
Sarah Palin.

HUME: My guess is she'll do fine,
but I think Bill's right. They've got to let her be herself, and she'll do
fine. 


From the 8 a.m. ET hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC Live: 


WITT: How about real quickly, the VP
debate is Thursday. Lots of talk in this
media -- in the media, rather, this week -- about Sarah Palin following her
latest major interview. How about this: Are expectations so low for Palin that
she can't help but do better than what people expect?

DECKER: You know, I know, Alex --
I'm gonna miss it -- but I know you're going to play a lot of Saturday Night Live from last night. The
clips from Saturday Night Live
last night, this morning. And, you know, there's this image that's been
presented of her, pretty much through SNL,
but through other venues as well, as a person who is not up to it -- not up to
being the person who's a heartbeat away from the presidency. And as a
result, expectations are extremely low for her going into the Thursday night's debate. You like expectations low going into a debate, that's for sure. And if she can beat those
expectations, it will be a good night for Sarah Palin.

WITT: OK. Always a good morning with
you being here. Thank you so much, John Decker. 

DECKER: Thank you, Alex.



From the 9 a.m. ET
hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC
Live: 


WITT: Emily, a lot of attention has
been focused on Sarah Palin. Lowered expectation
because of some critical reviews of her network interviews. Do you think that
lowered expectations will actually help her and might the campaign folks be
micromanaging her now and not letting her personality come out? 

HEIL: Well, there is certainly a lot
of pressure on Sarah Palin for this debate performance. You know, she's going
up against Joe Biden, who's, you know, considered a very, you know, good
speaker. He's gaffe-prone, for sure, but he's a old hand at this, and
she's not. And I think that's causing a lot of concern for her handlers. And I
think there was some thought that maybe it was over-handling that had caused
this bad performance. We're going to have to see.

But you know what? The debate format
is actually, I think, going to work in her favor to a certain extent. The
questions are doing to be shorter, and also the topics are going to be very
wide-ranging. She's much more well-versed on economic issues, on domestic
issues, as opposed to foreign policy issues. So to the extent that it's
wide-ranging and to the extent that she can focus in on what she knows, I think
that's where she might do better. But certainly, those lowered
expectations, if she does kind of well, I think most people will call it a
success. 


From the noon ET hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC Live: 


WITT: But Molly [Hooper, CQ political reporter], you know, when you
talk about the expectations being lowered for Sarah Palin, and that certainly
seems to be the consensus that we've been hearing throughout this day
here on MSNBC Sunday, does that mean that she just has to go out there and be
herself, as many have suggested, showing her personality? That is what a lot of the American public
has, you know, clamored onto. Or the fact that she is debating Joe Biden,
who's been in the Senate for so long, that he -- you know, there on
Capitol Hill. He's going to have some nuts and bolts to offer. 

HOOPER: We'll see. And
that's the thing about Senator Biden: He does have the nuts and bolts,
but he doesn't do the talking points. And he's so, like I said,
intelligent and knows what he's talking about, that he'll start to
get into these arguments that are very temporal and almost beyond people. I
mean, I went to Berkeley,
I was a history major, I love listening to Biden, but sometimes it goes over my
head. And, you know, if Palin gets out there and she's herself -- when I
say that, she just is plainspoken, keeps the answers short, sweet, and to the
point, you know, a little, kind of Tina Fey. We laugh and
everything, but, you know, people want to hear that. 

WITT: Yeah. 

HOOPER: They want to be reassured.
They want those flat-out statements. They want that assurance. And Biden, like I
said, he likes to talk. 

WITT: Yeah, he does. And Molly, to
what extent does he have to worry, though, about coming right up to what is
probably a pretty fine line over being mean or condescending or anything,
should Sarah Palin throw something that he vehemently disagrees with?

HOOPER: Well, here's the thing
about Senator Biden, and this is one of the reasons I love watching him on the
Senate floor -- this is why I love my job, because I can go out and see him
speak, sitting on the Senate floor. And, you know, he has this way about him.
He can sound sort of condescending, but it's not con-- he can be kind of
condescending, but it's not condescending. And that -- it's almost
sort of a Palin-esque kind of quality he has, but in a very 20 dollar kind of
word way. 

WITT: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know
what? I'm going to say, from my experience with him, interviewing him,
he's just a really nice guy.

HOOPER: I know.

WITT: I'm just going to say
that. You know, he absolutely is. 


From the 11 a.m. ET hour of the September 29 edition of MSNBC Live: 


HALL: But could low expectations
actually help Sarah Palin heading into this VP debate? And on the flip side, is
it fair that Joe Biden might be held to a higher standard? Suzanne Smalley is a
national correspondent for Newsweek.
And so Suzanne, who has the edge going into the debate here?

SMALLEY: Well, I think that
you're right to mention low expectations. That is something Sarah Palin
has going for her. Nonetheless, Joe Biden has been in Congress for decades and
is a very skilled debater, and no matter how low the expectations are, that
matchup is gonna be tough for her. And it's going to be -- the stakes are
very high for this campaign, especially after Saturday
Night Live.

I think you can argue that the [ABC World
News anchor] Charlie Gibson interview, the Katie
Couric interview, all of that inside the Beltway has a big impact, but once it
hits Saturday Night Live and you
get a roasting like that from a show that many low-information voters are
watching, that's a portrait that's gonna start to stick of Governor
Palin, and she really needs to do well in this debate.

HALL: It's interesting. On
ABC's This Week, John
McCain was asked about Sarah Palin's answer to a question that the U.S. military should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan. We know they've
been talking about this, they talked about it in a debate. And that was
essentially agreeing with Senator [Barack]
Obama. So here's how Senator McCain responded to it.

McCAIN [video clip]: This business
of, in all due respect, people going around and sticking a microphone while
conversations are being held and then all of a sudden that's a
person's position -- it's a free country, but I don't think
most Americans think that that's a definitive policy statement made by
Governor Palin.

HALL: So to backtrack a little bit
so our audience knows what's happened, someone kind of approached her
with a mic, and they ask her and that was her off-the-cuff, if you will,
explanation. In the debate, more structure -- will that help Governor Palin in
that -- it's a lot of information, but to whom much is given, much is
expected.

SMALLEY: Right. And, you know, I
think that, first of all, the "off the cuff" defense from Senator McCain
is really -- I mean, they have to have some kind of defense, but his
campaign's gone after Joe Biden for off-the-cuff remarks. I mean,
it's the nature of the game, and it is striking that she did disagree
with her running mate's position on this issue.

Beyond that, you know, I think that
the structure may be harder. It's easy when you're talking off the
cuff to take a moment --

HALL: Right.

SMALLEY: -- and think, but when
you're under the glaring lights of a national TV audience and millions of
people watching and having to speak for an hour and a half nonstop against
somebody like Joe Biden, who's been doing this for so long, it's a
really tough position for anybody who's fairly new on the national
political scene. So it's gonna be a challenge for her.



From the 3 p.m.
ET hour of the September 30 edition of MSNBC
Live: 


NORAH O'DONNELL (anchor): Savannah, John McCain just said they don't
expect her -- they don' t -- "their
appreciation for her is not because she's got
a Ph.D. from Harvard. She
doesn't." It
sounded like a backhanded compliment, but nevertheless, are there Republicans that
are concerned about her
performance and what this means for John McCain's candidacy? And,
I mean, doesn't it say something, the fact that all of his top advisers are
with her there now? They've left John McCain by himself, and they're with Palin to get her
ready.

GUTHRIE: Well, that's true. I
mean, to that point, we
just heard [NBC News correspondent]
Ron [Allen] that David
Axelrod [chief political strategist
for Obama] and others are with Biden now. So
these debates are important, and so
you do put the full-court
press.

There's no question that Republicans -- many of them will tell
you privately they're very concerned about Sarah Palin. And now, some of them
are peeling off and even saying so publicly. I mean, we've seen some prominent writers come out and say, "Palin isn't ready for prime time."

But what you heard John McCain tell
Kelly O'Donnell this morning is very much the party line I'm
hearing today, which is to keep those
expectations low, to say, "Let Palin be Palin. She's not running to be head of the debate
club, and that's not what Americans want." And also to point out,
"Hey, Joe
Biden's been doing this for 30 years. Of
course Sarah Palin -- she's
going to do the best she can, but let's not overstate the case." If
she just survives on Thursday, I think they'll be pleased. 

    
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asserted that Gov. Sarah Palin faces "low" or "lowered"
expectations in the upcoming vice-presidential debate and that she therefore
faces a lower bar for victory than Sen. Joe Biden. They have made these
assertions -- that she will win if she simply beats (lowered) expectations
-- despite criticism by at least one member of the media over the media's
setting of a lower
bar for Palin, despite praise of her performance in the Alaska gubernatorial
debate by others in the media, and despite McCain campaign surrogate Mitt
Romney's touting of her debate skills. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts,
stated on the September 29 broadcast
of NBC's Today: "I think if you looked at her
debate performance as the governor of Alaska, you're gonna see a
person who can hold her own. She's a very competent, well-spoken,
thoughtful individual,
and I think she's gonna do real well." Nonetheless, Romney also remarked on the
benefit to her of the "creat[ion of] low expectations."

Examples of media figures
asserting or suggesting that Palin stands to benefit from low expectations:

During a discussion of Palin on the September 28
edition of Fox News Sunday, NPR
national political correspondent Mara Liasson asserted: "But for this debate, no one is going to benefit more from low expectations
than Sarah Palin. She has got about the lowest
expectations. People think she's going to come on and babble incoherently, and
I think she's going to do just fine."
During the 8 a.m. ET hour of the September 28
edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Alex Witt asked,
"How about this: Are expectations so low for Palin that she can't help
but do better than what people expect?" Reuters Washington correspondent
Jon Decker replied, "[E]xpectations are extremely low for her going into
the Thursday night's debate. You like expectations
low going into a debate, that's for sure.
And if she can beat those expectations, it will be a good night for Sarah
Palin."
During the 9 a.m. ET hour of the September 28
edition of MSNBC Live, Witt asserted of Palin:
"Lowered expectation because of some
critical reviews of her network interviews. Do you think that lowered
expectations will actually help her and might the campaign folks be
micromanaging her now and not letting her personality come out?" Roll Call reporter Emily Heil replied:
"[C]ertainly,
those lowered expectations, if she does kind of well, I think most people will
call it a success."
During the noon ET
hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC Live, Witt asked: "[W]hen you talk about the expectations
being lowered for Sarah Palin, and that certainly seems to be the consensus
that we've been hearing throughout this day here on MSNBC Sunday, does
that mean that she just has to go out there and be herself, as many have
suggested, showing her personality?" 
During the 11 a.m. ET hour of the September 29
edition of MSNBC Live, after anchor Tamron Hall asked
if "low expectations actually help" Palin and "on the flip
side, is it fair that Joe Biden might be held to a higher standard," Newsweek correspondent Suzanne Smalley
replied, "Well, I think that you're right to mention low
expectations. That is something Sarah Palin has going for her."
During 3 p.m.
ET hour of the September 30 edition of MSNBC
Live, NBC News correspondent Savannah Guthrie said of the McCain campaign's expectations regarding
Palin's performance, "If she just survives on Thursday, I
think they'll be pleased." She
also reported that the "party line I'm hearing today,
which is to keep those
expectations low, to say, 'Let Palin be Palin. She's not running to be head of the debate
club, and that's not what Americans want.'"
As Media Matters
for America documented, CNN senior political
analyst Gloria Borger asserted that "the bar is, first of all, on the
floor for Sarah Palin" for the debate, to which senior legal analyst
Jeffrey Toobin responded that "it's not our job" to "sort of
create these expectations."


Notwithstanding claims
by these media figures that
expectations are "lower" for Palin, some in the media have praised Palin's
debating abilities based on her performance in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial debate. National Review White House correspondent
Byron York wrote in a September
8 post to the
National Review Online blog
The Corner: "[A]ll I have to say is that
Palin was good
-- really good. It wasn't a debate in which
the candidates were in each other's faces or throwing out zingers, but Palin
clearly outshone her rivals --
especially [former Alaska Gov. Frank]
Murkowski, the longtime senator who played the role of the
experienced statesman." Similarly, in a post to the Time.com blog Swampland, national political correspondent Karen
Tumulty described Palin's gubernatorial debate performance as
"impressive," adding that Palin "is also very good on her
feet." Tumulty went on to write:
"That's why Joe Biden should be wary, especially since she will have
expectations very much in her favor." 

In addition, MSNBC Live's Hall asked Newsweek national correspondent Suzanne
Smalley if the vice-presidential debate, which Hall said will have "more
structure" than the campaign trail,
will "help
Governor Palin."
Smalley replied, in part:


I think that the structure may be
harder. It's easy when you're talking off the cuff to take a moment
and think, but when you're under the glaring lights of a national TV
audience and millions of people watching and having to speak for an hour and a
half nonstop against somebody like Joe Biden, who's been doing this for
so long, it's a really tough position for anybody who's fairly new
on the national political scene. So it's gonna be a challenge for
her.


In asserting the purported benefit to Biden
of the "structure," Smalley did not note that the McCain campaign reportedly
"fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning
at the vice-presidential debate." According to a September 20 New York Times article: 


At the insistence of the McCain
campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president,
Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will
have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential
nominees, the advisers said. There will also be much less opportunity for
free-wheeling, direct exchanges between the running mates. 


From the September 28 edition of Fox News Sunday: 


JUAN WILLIAMS (Fox News political contributor and NPR news analyst):
But with regard to Palin, let me just say, they wouldn't
even put Palin in the spin room after the debates. Joe Biden was out there in the
spin room.

BRIT HUME (Fox News Washington
managing editor): Right.

WILLIAMS: And I think that, you
know, when Bill [Kristol] says that they're mismanaging her -- the idea they
put her out there with the world leaders of the U.N. -- she looked bumbly. She
wouldn't even talk to reporters then. She goes on with [Fox News host] Sean Hannity, our friend. And
what happens? She can't even talk about the bailout effectively. And with [CBS
Evening News anchor] Katie Couric, it was an implosion.

LIASSON: But for this debate, no one is going to benefit more from low expectations
than Sarah Palin. She has got about the lowest
expectations. People think she's going to come on and babble incoherently, and
I think she's going to do just fine.

CHRIS WALLACE (host): Brit, you get the final word about
Sarah Palin.

HUME: My guess is she'll do fine,
but I think Bill's right. They've got to let her be herself, and she'll do
fine. 


From the 8 a.m. ET hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC Live: 


WITT: How about real quickly, the VP
debate is Thursday. Lots of talk in this
media -- in the media, rather, this week -- about Sarah Palin following her
latest major interview. How about this: Are expectations so low for Palin that
she can't help but do better than what people expect?

DECKER: You know, I know, Alex --
I'm gonna miss it -- but I know you're going to play a lot of Saturday Night Live from last night. The
clips from Saturday Night Live
last night, this morning. And, you know, there's this image that's been
presented of her, pretty much through SNL,
but through other venues as well, as a person who is not up to it -- not up to
being the person who's a heartbeat away from the presidency. And as a
result, expectations are extremely low for her going into the Thursday night's debate. You like expectations low going into a debate, that's for sure. And if she can beat those
expectations, it will be a good night for Sarah Palin.

WITT: OK. Always a good morning with
you being here. Thank you so much, John Decker. 

DECKER: Thank you, Alex.



From the 9 a.m. ET
hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC
Live: 


WITT: Emily, a lot of attention has
been focused on Sarah Palin. Lowered expectation
because of some critical reviews of her network interviews. Do you think that
lowered expectations will actually help her and might the campaign folks be
micromanaging her now and not letting her personality come out? 

HEIL: Well, there is certainly a lot
of pressure on Sarah Palin for this debate performance. You know, she's going
up against Joe Biden, who's, you know, considered a very, you know, good
speaker. He's gaffe-prone, for sure, but he's a old hand at this, and
she's not. And I think that's causing a lot of concern for her handlers. And I
think there was some thought that maybe it was over-handling that had caused
this bad performance. We're going to have to see.

But you know what? The debate format
is actually, I think, going to work in her favor to a certain extent. The
questions are doing to be shorter, and also the topics are going to be very
wide-ranging. She's much more well-versed on economic issues, on domestic
issues, as opposed to foreign policy issues. So to the extent that it's
wide-ranging and to the extent that she can focus in on what she knows, I think
that's where she might do better. But certainly, those lowered
expectations, if she does kind of well, I think most people will call it a
success. 


From the noon ET hour of the September 28 edition of MSNBC Live: 


WITT: But Molly [Hooper, CQ political reporter], you know, when you
talk about the expectations being lowered for Sarah Palin, and that certainly
seems to be the consensus that we've been hearing throughout this day
here on MSNBC Sunday, does that mean that she just has to go out there and be
herself, as many have suggested, showing her personality? That is what a lot of the American public
has, you know, clamored onto. Or the fact that she is debating Joe Biden,
who's been in the Senate for so long, that he -- you know, there on
Capitol Hill. He's going to have some nuts and bolts to offer. 

HOOPER: We'll see. And
that's the thing about Senator Biden: He does have the nuts and bolts,
but he doesn't do the talking points. And he's so, like I said,
intelligent and knows what he's talking about, that he'll start to
get into these arguments that are very temporal and almost beyond people. I
mean, I went to Berkeley,
I was a history major, I love listening to Biden, but sometimes it goes over my
head. And, you know, if Palin gets out there and she's herself -- when I
say that, she just is plainspoken, keeps the answers short, sweet, and to the
point, you know, a little, kind of Tina Fey. We laugh and
everything, but, you know, people want to hear that. 

WITT: Yeah. 

HOOPER: They want to be reassured.
They want those flat-out statements. They want that assurance. And Biden, like I
said, he likes to talk. 

WITT: Yeah, he does. And Molly, to
what extent does he have to worry, though, about coming right up to what is
probably a pretty fine line over being mean or condescending or anything,
should Sarah Palin throw something that he vehemently disagrees with?

HOOPER: Well, here's the thing
about Senator Biden, and this is one of the reasons I love watching him on the
Senate floor -- this is why I love my job, because I can go out and see him
speak, sitting on the Senate floor. And, you know, he has this way about him.
He can sound sort of condescending, but it's not con-- he can be kind of
condescending, but it's not condescending. And that -- it's almost
sort of a Palin-esque kind of quality he has, but in a very 20 dollar kind of
word way. 

WITT: Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know
what? I'm going to say, from my experience with him, interviewing him,
he's just a really nice guy.

HOOPER: I know.

WITT: I'm just going to say
that. You know, he absolutely is. 


From the 11 a.m. ET hour of the September 29 edition of MSNBC Live: 


HALL: But could low expectations
actually help Sarah Palin heading into this VP debate? And on the flip side, is
it fair that Joe Biden might be held to a higher standard? Suzanne Smalley is a
national correspondent for Newsweek.
And so Suzanne, who has the edge going into the debate here?

SMALLEY: Well, I think that
you're right to mention low expectations. That is something Sarah Palin
has going for her. Nonetheless, Joe Biden has been in Congress for decades and
is a very skilled debater, and no matter how low the expectations are, that
matchup is gonna be tough for her. And it's going to be -- the stakes are
very high for this campaign, especially after Saturday
Night Live.

I think you can argue that the [ABC World
News anchor] Charlie Gibson interview, the Katie
Couric interview, all of that inside the Beltway has a big impact, but once it
hits Saturday Night Live and you
get a roasting like that from a show that many low-information voters are
watching, that's a portrait that's gonna start to stick of Governor
Palin, and she really needs to do well in this debate.

HALL: It's interesting. On
ABC's This Week, John
McCain was asked about Sarah Palin's answer to a question that the U.S. military should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan. We know they've
been talking about this, they talked about it in a debate. And that was
essentially agreeing with Senator [Barack]
Obama. So here's how Senator McCain responded to it.

McCAIN [video clip]: This business
of, in all due respect, people going around and sticking a microphone while
conversations are being held and then all of a sudden that's a
person's position -- it's a free country, but I don't think
most Americans think that that's a definitive policy statement made by
Governor Palin.

HALL: So to backtrack a little bit
so our audience knows what's happened, someone kind of approached her
with a mic, and they ask her and that was her off-the-cuff, if you will,
explanation. In the debate, more structure -- will that help Governor Palin in
that -- it's a lot of information, but to whom much is given, much is
expected.

SMALLEY: Right. And, you know, I
think that, first of all, the "off the cuff" defense from Senator McCain
is really -- I mean, they have to have some kind of defense, but his
campaign's gone after Joe Biden for off-the-cuff remarks. I mean,
it's the nature of the game, and it is striking that she did disagree
with her running mate's position on this issue.

Beyond that, you know, I think that
the structure may be harder. It's easy when you're talking off the
cuff to take a moment --

HALL: Right.

SMALLEY: -- and think, but when
you're under the glaring lights of a national TV audience and millions of
people watching and having to speak for an hour and a half nonstop against
somebody like Joe Biden, who's been doing this for so long, it's a
really tough position for anybody who's fairly new on the national
political scene. So it's gonna be a challenge for her.



From the 3 p.m.
ET hour of the September 30 edition of MSNBC
Live: 


NORAH O'DONNELL (anchor): Savannah, John McCain just said they don't
expect her -- they don' t -- "their
appreciation for her is not because she's got
a Ph.D. from Harvard. She
doesn't." It
sounded like a backhanded compliment, but nevertheless, are there Republicans that
are concerned about her
performance and what this means for John McCain's candidacy? And,
I mean, doesn't it say something, the fact that all of his top advisers are
with her there now? They've left John McCain by himself, and they're with Palin to get her
ready.

GUTHRIE: Well, that's true. I
mean, to that point, we
just heard [NBC News correspondent]
Ron [Allen] that David
Axelrod [chief political strategist
for Obama] and others are with Biden now. So
these debates are important, and so
you do put the full-court
press.

There's no question that Republicans -- many of them will tell
you privately they're very concerned about Sarah Palin. And now, some of them
are peeling off and even saying so publicly. I mean, we've seen some prominent writers come out and say, "Palin isn't ready for prime time."

But what you heard John McCain tell
Kelly O'Donnell this morning is very much the party line I'm
hearing today, which is to keep those
expectations low, to say, "Let Palin be Palin. She's not running to be head of the debate
club, and that's not what Americans want." And also to point out,
"Hey, Joe
Biden's been doing this for 30 years. Of
course Sarah Palin -- she's
going to do the best she can, but let's not overstate the case." If
she just survives on Thursday, I think they'll be pleased. 

    
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				Low-fare bus companies are springing up across the country, seizing an opportunity created by rising air fares, airport security hassles and mounting gas prices that have people shunning airlines, leaving their cars in the driveway and leaving the driving to others. 
				Low-buck lines like BoltBus, DC2NY and Megabus increasingly are siphoning passengers from airlines seemingly intent on making flying as miserable as possible. "It's not just high fuel prices ? it's
the hassle factor at the airports
that has left many fliers disenchanted," says Joseph P. Schwieterman, a
professor of transportation at DePaul University. "Travelers who
wouldn't have given a thought to bus travel are now stepping on board." 
				As airlines continue cutting routes and raising fares, the upstart bus companies see a big chance to not only win riders, but make them loyal customers by offering rock-bottom fares and loads of perks like free WiFi.
				Yes, they've gotta deal with high fuel prices like everyone else, but
they're thriving because they're fanatical about keeping costs down. 
					BoltBus, for example, picks up passengers
at the curb ? no fees for gate space at the terminal -- and only sells tickets online, eliminating the need for ticket agents. Taking a page from the airlines, BoltBus also is launching a
frequent-rider program to build loyalty.
				BoltBus is a joint venture between Greyhound and Peter Pan, which raises an interesting question: Will a bus-line-within-a-bus-line business model actually work? Scores of airlines have tried budget carriers of their own ? Metrojet, Song, Ted and Continental Lite all come to mind ? but scrapped the idea when they found the upstarts poached customers from their parent operations. Greyhound isn't saying what impact BoltBus is having on mainline operations but claims the six-month-old subsidiary has ferried
225,000 passengers along high-traffic routes in the Northeast Corridor ? about
10 percent more than originally forecast.
				BoltBus isn't the only game in town. 
					DC2NYhas been around for about a year now and bills itself as "the upscale bus." It makes the run between those two cities for the bargain-basement price of $25, which includes free WiFi and beverages. British-owned 
					Megabuswill ferry you to several major cities in the Midwest for as little as $1.50 if you book far enough in advance. You don't get a lot of frills for that kind of coin, but 
					those who have ridden Megabussay the buses are clean and the service decent. 
				It's amazing how much money you can save, too. I'm headed to Washington DC soon, so I'm looking for some cheap transport. It's a quick flight
from Boston, and while I knew that airfares were up, I had no idea how
high they'd gone. A round trip flight is $397. The train isn't much better ? a ride on Amtrak's Acela at $410, and even the slower, less sexy Northeast Regional is $211. Compare that to $163 on Greyhound, or better yet $50 on low-fare line 
					GotoBus, and it's a no-brainer. 
				Am I too proud to ride the bus? In this economy, no way.
					
				
				
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						Steve Deger/Flickr. Post updated 2:30 p.m. PST.
						
					
				
				
				
					
				
				
			

   
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				Low-fare bus companies are springing up across the country, seizing an opportunity created by rising air fares, airport security hassles and mounting gas prices that have people shunning airlines, leaving their cars in the driveway and leaving the driving to others. 
				Low-buck lines like BoltBus, DC2NY and Megabus increasingly are siphoning passengers from airlines seemingly intent on making flying as miserable as possible. "It's not just high fuel prices ? it's
the hassle factor at the airports
that has left many fliers disenchanted," says Joseph P. Schwieterman, a
professor of transportation at DePaul University. "Travelers who
wouldn't have given a thought to bus travel are now stepping on board." 
				As airlines continue cutting routes and raising fares, the upstart bus companies see a big chance to not only win riders, but make them loyal customers by offering rock-bottom fares and loads of perks like free WiFi.
				Yes, they've gotta deal with high fuel prices like everyone else, but
they're thriving because they're fanatical about keeping costs down. 
					BoltBus, for example, picks up passengers
at the curb ? no fees for gate space at the terminal -- and only sells tickets online, eliminating the need for ticket agents. Taking a page from the airlines, BoltBus also is launching a
frequent-rider program to build loyalty.
				BoltBus is a joint venture between Greyhound and Peter Pan, which raises an interesting question: Will a bus-line-within-a-bus-line business model actually work? Scores of airlines have tried budget carriers of their own ? Metrojet, Song, Ted and Continental Lite all come to mind ? but scrapped the idea when they found the upstarts poached customers from their parent operations. Greyhound isn't saying what impact BoltBus is having on mainline operations but claims the six-month-old subsidiary has ferried
225,000 passengers along high-traffic routes in the Northeast Corridor ? about
10 percent more than originally forecast.
				BoltBus isn't the only game in town. 
					DC2NYhas been around for about a year now and bills itself as "the upscale bus." It makes the run between those two cities for the bargain-basement price of $25, which includes free WiFi and beverages. British-owned 
					Megabuswill ferry you to several major cities in the Midwest for as little as $1.50 if you book far enough in advance. You don't get a lot of frills for that kind of coin, but 
					those who have ridden Megabussay the buses are clean and the service decent. 
				It's amazing how much money you can save, too. I'm headed to Washington DC soon, so I'm looking for