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Bill Kristol on Fox news sunday stated that he discussed this with John McCain’s campaign chief and it was out of context.  They had been grilling Palin for 12 to 16 hours on NAFTA, CAFTA and other trade agendas, when at the end of the day she misspoke on one of the answers and said African Country instead of continent.  It simply was a misquote.

It’s an official two-fer!
Both Marko and MSNBC are gullible idiots.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/13/msnbc-retracts-false-palin-story-duped/

Florida IT Guy - 13 November 2008 08:22 AM

It’s an official two-fer!
Both Marko and MSNBC are gullible idiots.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/13/msnbc-retracts-false-palin-story-duped/

I guess you missed this part of the story in your link:

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

The original report about “Africagate” was on FOX News, not MSNBC—I watched it live.  MSNBC’s mistake was in attempting to identify the source of the information by name.  No one, not even FOX News, is retracting the story itself, and the article itself says the truthfulness of the report isn’t put into question.

So . . . what was your point again?

Piratical - 13 November 2008 09:58 AM

So . . . what was your point again?

That you and Marko, etc, are . . . gullible, to say the least?

One here suggested this was a gag by Sasha Cohen; which stunt was borrowed, lifted and apocryphally applied to Palin. But others said that she misspoke during some long prep for her VP debate. She didn’t believe it. She misspoke.

Y’know, Barry once spoke of the 57 states. But you don’t mock him for trying to discover the 58th - which is supposedly where he was headed at the time.

So . . yeah. You’ll believe most anything because you so fear Palin. I could say there’s a rumor that Palin can’t spell her own name. And if it weren’t that I told you, and told you that I was making it up - you’d probably believe it.

Piratical - 13 November 2008 09:58 AM

Florida IT Guy - 13 November 2008 08:22 AM

It’s an official two-fer!
Both Marko and MSNBC are gullible idiots.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/13/msnbc-retracts-false-palin-story-duped/

I guess you missed this part of the story in your link:

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

The original report about “Africagate” was on FOX News, not MSNBC—I watched it live.  MSNBC’s mistake was in attempting to identify the source of the information by name.  No one, not even FOX News, is retracting the story itself, and the article itself says the truthfulness of the report isn’t put into question.

So . . . what was your point again?

So we have here a “story” that oficially has no source at all, is completely un-vetted, and you want to cling to the feeble hope that it’s still true.

Admit it, you’re Mary Mapes, aren’t you?

I guess Marko needed a wingman in the idiot dept.

I agree that Carl Cameron is a hack who may be lying.

Carl Cameron should have been fired from Fox months ago.  He admitted, on the air, in New Hampshire, that he was a “big, big fan and supporter of Senator McCain”.  This was during the primary season.  At the very least, Fox should have taken him off of the McCain assignment and put somebody else on that team.

I would like to watch a news channel and get the news.  If I want to watch an opinion show, I’ll tune into an opinion show, but I would just like to get straight news without somebody else’s ideological spin put on it.

There IS a country known as South Africa and it would be easy to think that someone was referring to South Africa as opposed to the continent itself.

I think the thing everyone needs to take away from all this is what I posted earlier, this crap always happens after failed campaigns. You know why we know so much about it now? The internet. The same reason we know so much more about every little detail that has occurred in the last few campaigns. The more technological we become, the more we will know. If you look back to the days of say Carter, most of the country had 3 damn t.v. channels and the “Fairness” Doctrine. We only were told what they wanted us to know. If they wanted something to get out to smear someone who they didn’t like, it did. I actually am not sure why everyone is in such a tizzy. Everyone who has ever run for any office has said stupid stuff. Some knew better, some didn’t. I think you need to only really pay attention to it when it becomes a pattern over time that they continue to say stupid stuff. If Palin stays in the public eye and continues to say stupid stuff over and over, then, like Joe Biden, you can probably conclude she is an idiot.

happy1ga - 13 November 2008 06:04 PM

If Palin stays in the public eye and continues to say stupid stuff over and over, then, like Joe Biden, you can probably conclude she is an idiot.

Public eye or no, same holds for you - happy.

I would prefer she explain what she means a bit more. I’d prefer that she turn to examples she’s heard of, or that she’s experienced, as Reagan constantly did.

But compared with Biden, as you say, or Obama who got a pass on everything he uttered, such as flying out to the 58th state, she handled herself very well against what of late amounts to nothing but calumny, malicious falsehood.

If anyone believes that Palin is too dumb to spell her own name, or anything like that of the assorted charges made by disgruntled McCain character assassins, then they are . . . an idiot.

Florida IT Guy - 13 November 2008 12:42 PM

Piratical - 13 November 2008 09:58 AM

Florida IT Guy - 13 November 2008 08:22 AM

It’s an official two-fer!
Both Marko and MSNBC are gullible idiots.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/13/msnbc-retracts-false-palin-story-duped/

I guess you missed this part of the story in your link:

The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.

The original report about “Africagate” was on FOX News, not MSNBC—I watched it live.  MSNBC’s mistake was in attempting to identify the source of the information by name.  No one, not even FOX News, is retracting the story itself, and the article itself says the truthfulness of the report isn’t put into question.

So . . . what was your point again?

So we have here a “story” that oficially has no source at all, is completely un-vetted, and you want to cling to the feeble hope that it’s still true.

Personally, I don’t care if it’s true.  I think Palin’s a doofus gas-bag regardless of whether she thinks Africa is a continent or a country.

I was simply having fun pointing out that you claimed MSNBC admitted to being “duped” with respect to the story itself. On the contrary, MSNBC retracted it’s identification of the source of the original story—and here’s where it gets good: 

The news organization that originally reported it was FOX—it was unattributed then, and it’s unattributed now, and FOX has yet to issue a retraction. FOX News is standing behind the story itself.  Like I said, I don’t know if the story is true or not, but I do know that your reading comprehension sucks.