The highly-conservative Fox News has been championing guilt-by-association politics (of course the network has an obvious agenda to tear down Sen. Barack Obama). Clearly, Fox is ignoring Sen. John McCain’s associations with G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Keating, Rod Parsley, John Hagee and others with backgrounds ranging from terrorist/criminal (Liddy) to bigoted and hateful comments (Parsley and Hagee). Those associations do not fit into their choreographed attack on Sen. Obama. But, Monday brought breaking news that Republican Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of “making false statements on his financial disclosure regarding ‘$250,000 in home renovations and other gifts he received from an oil contractor.’” Sen. Stevens could be headed to the hoosegow as a result of his guilty verdicts. But, what does his conviction mean for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin? Does she have to answer for her associations with the now disgraced Sen. Stevens? Here is a blurb from a Think Progress story, “Sarah Palin has not yet released a statement on the Stevens verdict. Palin once served as director of the 527 group Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc. So far, she has also refused to call for his resignation.” Gee, I wonder if right-wing nuts Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly will give fair coverage of this on Fox News in a fashion similar to what they would do if it was Sen. Obama rather than Gov. Palin? You’re right … I don’t think so either.
Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/stevens-guilty/
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