Fox-News contributor Sarah Palin slams Fox News and Megyn Kelly for spreading "misinformation" - PLUS: Explosive new report about the Koch Brothers

By Patrick

Sarah Palin will be the flavour of yesterday soon, but until then, the mean girl from Wasilla continues to prove that she is one of the biggest jokes in American political history, and that her thin skin is virtually unmatched. In one of the best segments I have ever seen, Lawrence O'Donnell, the one MSNBC host who is not afraid to tell his viewers the blunt truth about Sarah Palin, yesterday delivered an epic slam on the Quitter from Wasilla:

We have observed over and over again that the one thing that really gets Sarah going is perceived criticism and perceived enemies. Even the smallest criticism sets her off like a bomb. Now she is the "Inhouse-IED" of Fox News.

You don't criticise Queen Esther! Why doesn't Fox News understand this simple fact? How could they? They are liars as well, bloody liars, like all the rest of them. Just Greta and Hannity still belong to the good guys. The last ditch effort, so to speak.

We have already seen in the past in Alaska that it doesn't matter for Sarah whether somebody is right-wing or left-wing. All that matters for her is: Are you for Sarah or against Sarah? Now Fox News is learning it the hard way. Roger Ailes will not be pleased.

It's almost a surprise that Palin's pathologic nature always manages to shine through. It's simply impossible for her to deliver any reasonable, balanced commentary. There are only good guys or bad guys. Either the liars or the people who tell the truth. Sarah Palin always has been the perfect cult leader, and it would not surprise me if the Palin-cult persists in lingering on in obscurity (and on right-wing websites) for years to come.

The right-wing commentators have also not been kind to Sarah Palin lately. For example, right-wing pundit "S.E. Cupp", who also works as a writer and commentator for Glenn Beck's company "Mercury Radio Arts", yesterday wrote in a commentary at CNN:

And now, the will-they-or-won't-they game has flipped from fun and energizing to damaging to the party. Christie and Palin now do conservatives more harm than good.

With the question marks still lingering in the ether, and pundits on both sides of the aisle still performing their daily trapeze act -- swinging back and forth between "yes, he's running" and "no, she isn't" -- the focus on Christie and Palin has taken valuable resources and attention away from the rest of the field.

Because of those question marks, conservatives haven't been able to invest fully in the candidates who are running. They haven't been able to imagine one of them as president. They've held back support, money and endorsements, because they still don't know that the field is settled.

And Christie and Palin are not entirely without fault.

On another note:

Why do extreme right-wing commentators like S.E. Cupp write political commentaries at a mainstream news website like CNN in the first place, one might ask?

The fact that S.E. Cupp primarily works for Glenn Beck isn't even revealed to the readers at CNN. There, she is introduced in the following manner:

S.E. Cupp is author of "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity" and co-author of "Why You're Wrong About the Right." She is a columnist at the New York Daily News, senior writer at the Daily Caller, and a political commentator.

CNN apparently isn't bothered by what S.E.Cupp wrote in her book about the "Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity." From the description of the book on the website of "Simon & Schuster":

Starting at the top, she exposes the unwitting courtship of President Obama and the liberal press, which consistently misreports or downplays Obama's clear discomfort with, or blatant disregard for, religious America—from covering up religious imagery in the backdrop of his Georgetown University speech to his absence from events surrounding the National Day of Prayer, to identifying America in his inaugural address as, among other things, "a nation of non-believers." She likens the calculated attacks of the liberal media to a class war, a revolution with a singular purpose: to overthrow God and silence Christian America for good. And she sends out an urgent call for all Americans to push back the leftist propaganda blitz striking on the Internet, radio, television, in films, publishing, and print journalism—or invite the tyrannies of a "mainstream" media set on mocking our beliefs, controlling our decisions, and extinguishing our freedoms.

Does the audience of CNN have to accept it as a fact that there don't seem to be any moderate Republican voices in the USA left? Does CNN really have such a hard time to find right-wing commentators who are not simply nuts? Would for example the BBC in the UK even remotely consider inviting "pundits" from extreme right-wing parties?

In the current political climate in the USA, nothing seems to be a surprise any more. What would have been an almost outrageous suggestion in previous times now passes as routine business.

Moving on: Erick Erickson from "Red State", another extreme right-wing CNN-commentator, is not Sarah Palin's friend any more. He published several mocking post over the last days, picking up on the fact that Sarah Palin missed her own deadline for declaring her candidacy, and he writes today:

It is now October even in Alaska and Sarah Palin has not announced by her own deadline.

I guess she could still do it this month. But if she can’t even keep to her own deadline and hasn’t really had a job for two years and could have made up her mind, why keep stringing us along.

This hasn’t just become a joke, but a bad joke.

Sarah Palin has of course always been a bad joke. In a longer comment at the Red-State post, a reader expressed his/her disappointment:

But, as we discovered, Mrs. Palin chose to lead not the movement, but her own personality cult. She was “considering” a run. Okay, good. I hoped that if she ran, she would have solid policies to run on, and be able to mount a serious presidential campaign based on issues. She was unpopular in general, but still popular with the base. If she won the nomination, she could overcome her unpopularity. So, I still had faith.

But time kept going by. People were announcing left and right. The campaign was progressing. Palin became less and less relevant as a political figure. And she saw it. This is where she began to seriously hemorrhage support within the movement. I was one of the supporters that she lost. Instead of building up leaders within the movement, she chose to tear them down. A couple of examples from recent weeks- the bogus charge that Rick Perry engaged in “crony capitalism.” and the stupid remark that Herman Cain was the “flavor of the month.” These are two recent examples, but go back, and you’ll find these starting a few months ago.

Sorry, Mrs. Palin. You aren’t a candidate. It’s time for you to either help the movemnent forward or shut up. But she doesn’t want to. She got used to the popularity that she once had, and the personality cult that was built around her.

It therefore appears that there is only her shrinking base of cultists left who still more or less believe in her and expect that the masses will rise up for Sarah her sweep her to Washington in order to rid the nation of all evil. However, even her die-hard cultists appear to be worn out, due to the many blunders of the Palin-camp. This includes the fact that SarahPAC wasn't so far able to deliver exclusive pre-release DVD copies of "The Undefeated" to the buyers who paid $ 100 for them instead of the normal price, as recent comments at "Comnservatives4Palin" revealed.

I would also like to include an older, wonderful clip by Lawrence O'Donnell, when he in July this year slammed Newsweek for the terrible puff-piece about Sarah Palin - it's worth to be revisited:

So it seems that in the near future, we will be able to virtually forget about the Queen from Wasilla - although I am sure that the final journey of this trainwreck will still produce many fascinating stories.

But there are other stories which are even more important. I planned already for quite a while to write a large posts about the Koch Brothers and the background of their front groups like "Americans for Prosperity", groups which will possibly play a big role in the coming propaganda war of the 2012 election. The Koch Brothers themselves said that the 2012 presidential elections will be the "mother of all wars", so it surely will be a nasty and vicious fight battle.

UPDATE:

I just now created a youtube-clip with one of the most important parts of the secret recordings from the Koch 2011 Summer Seminar (Charles Koch: "Mother of all wars in the next 18 months") which had origjnally been published by Mother Jones and Brad Blog. It's much more accessible this way:

But not so fast: Regarding the Koch Brothers, explosive news arrived today. Bloomberg Markets Magazine will publish a major, damning story on the Koch Brothers, and Salon reports today that the Koch Brothers are "spooked" by the story and that anonymous sources are already trying to discredit the story.

Salon reports:

Based on the prebuttal items appearing this week in the Washington Examiner, the Daily Caller, and U.S. News and World Report, the Bloomberg story focuses on alleged malfeasance and/or fraud and/or bad behavior by the conglomerate Koch Industries.

One of those episodes apparently involves bribery by a Koch subsidiary in France, according to the piece by Washington Examiner editorial page editor Mark Tapscott. He reports that “Bloomberg reporters have been trolling among former Koch employees overseas in search of disaffected voices willing to talk,” but Tapscott suspects the story may be animated by bias against the Tea Party. And he notes that, “Koch USA officials say they were as surprised and angered as anybody else when they were first apprised of the bribery allegations, and moved as quickly as possible to get to the bottom of the situation and fix it.”

All three of the prebuttal stories cite an unnamed source who was interviewed for the Bloomberg story; it’s not clear if that same source spoke with all three publications. The Examiner describes the source as a former government official.

Another one of the issues addressed in the Bloomberg article will be the Kochs’ past business dealings with Iran, according to the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis, who also argues that this is not “terribly newsworthy” and the Kochs are being singled out for their politics.

Meanwhile, Paul Bedard of U.S. News reports:

One of those interviewed by Bloomberg for the upcoming article said the firm received four pages of single-spaced questions, all dealing with old trade and environmental problems and issues the company says it has fixed. None were about the firm’s politics or the Koch brother’s support for conservative causes, though the firm believes that is the focus.

Clearly, the Kochs are nervous about what Bloomberg has coming. And as it turns out, they’ve used the prebuttal strategy before. In April 2010 I got an unsolicited email from Koch Industries’ spokeswoman offering to “reiterate some important facts.” She said that Koch Industries and the Koch brothers had never funded the Tea Party, in case I was wondering. That, of course, was not true. And a few months later, Jane Mayer’s now famous expose on the Kochs and the Tea Party was published in the New Yorker.

Kathleen and I already received a full copy of the Bloomberg story about the Koch Brothers, and we plan to publish an in-depth report about it soon. The story contains some real bomshells, and at the end of the article it is revealed that no less than fifteen Bloomberg-journalists all over the globe contributed to the story. It looks like this piece will be as big as the groundbreaking article about the Koch Brothers by Jane Mayer's in the New Yorker.

While CNN pals around with extreme right-wingers and call this journalism, real investigative journalism fortunately still exists, and finds "new homes", like "Bloomberg Markets Magazine."

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UPDATE:

Following a suggestion from our reader Kasha Knish, here is the live stream from Occupy Wall Street protests:

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PalinPalooza reloaded: Palin "recycles" bus from "Sarah Palin's Alaska", "crashes" Rolling Thunder (or did she?), Lawrence O'Donnell's bizarre rant

By Patrick

The good old Sarah Palin madness started again, although some people are still in denial. But let me thank our brilliant readers first: The collection of links and stories in our comments is simply invaluable. Poor Kathleen went to bed already several hours again with a bad migraine, and when I came home today after a tiring working week, I was so glad (as usual) to see all the collected links, news and facts in our comments. This makes it so much easier for us to prepare new posts. Thank you, everybody, and keep up the good work!

Sarah Palin's bus tour starts with a propaganda blast and the usual Palinesque chaos which in the end makes her appear a "victim", as usual, as always, as it was to be expected.

SarahPAC today released this propaganda video for the bus tour - fodder for her gullible fans:

Then there is the usual chaos surrounding this tour, but don't expect that it will make Sarah look bad, because it's so totally not her fault, it's just the others who always get their facts wrong, you betcha.

Andrea Mitchell interviewed Ted Shpak, spokesman of "Rolling Thunder", who said that Sarah Palin was "not invited", that the organizers heard "yesterday through a press release" that she was coming, that the event is not political and that he considers Sarah Palin to be a "big distraction":

Even Ben Smith from Politico, who is known to be incredibly careful in his criticism of Sarah Palin, smelled the blunder and felt compelled to declare:

"Palin invited herself to motorcycle rally"

But he should have known that Sarah Palin makes no mistakes. It's always the others who get it wrong. She is the victim. Do you get it, Ben?

Oh yes, he did - just about one hour later:

"Palin had invite to bike rally"

She had an invite from Alaska! She is the victim. How could the lamestream interview a spokesman who clearly had no idea what he was talking about. How mean of Andrea Mitchell! Sarah, they are all picking on you for no reason as usual!

It's not very difficult to predict that similar "confusions" will probably happen a gazillion times in Sarah Palin's "sphere" during the next 12+ months - and that the "lamestream" will dutifully report each other's "mistakes" as far as Sarah Palin is concerned.

But we have a real discovery, and strangely enough, a Palinbot made it: Sarah Palin uses exactly the same tour bus for her upcoming "One Nation" bus tour that she used for her reality show "Sarah Palin's Alaska!"

A right-winger posted this picture on twitter (click to enlarge):

The busses are not only identical - in fact, even the number plates are the same! It's the same bus, without any doubt.

So what the heck does that mean? On the bus, there now is a huge sign with says:

"Paid for by SARAHPAC"

Is everything paid by SarahPAC, including the bus? Who is the owner of the bus? Who paid for it when it was used for her reality show "Sarah Palin's Alaska?" Did SarahPAC secretly finance parts of the reality show as well?

So many questions - so few answers. This would also be a good title for a Sarah Palin biography. ;-)

In the meantime, Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't believe that Sarah Palin will run for President:

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Lawrence O'Donnell is certainly entitled to believe that, and he received much praise for his stance for example in the comments at Huffington Post, and I believe that a number of our readers will agree as well. But I don't agree at all, and I find it quite painful to watch how Lawrence O'Donnell mocks the New York Times because they chose to take Sarah Palin seriously.

His comparison to Donald Trump is as flawed as it can get. Sarah Palin has prepared her run for President for years, and everybody who has closely followed her story also should know that she is virtually been eaten up by her desperation to become President. She is much cleverer than Lawrence O'Donnell realizes: She doesn't need to follow the "usual script" for a presidential candidate - because she always got away with doing it "the other way." Giving speeches to enthusiastic fans, hiding behind facebook and twitter, producing a reality show, produce additional propaganda through more staged events like the bus tour, giving interviews to pro-Palin journalists - that's her dream, and she is just about to live it. Because she is allowed to do it, by the people she despises, by the "lamestream." At some point, they might wake up, but until then, Sarah Palin will be able to do a lot of damage.

Thankfully, the New York Times understands as well that the comparison to Trump is flawed:

But Mr. Trump’s was a brief dalliance with presidential politics that almost appeared to have been done on a whim. Ms. Palin, by contrast, has been moving slowly and methodically for several years. Aides have said for months that she wanted to be in a position to run for president if that’s what she decided to do.

Ms. Palin and her aides revealed few clues on Thursday, which leaves a lot of people in Washington and around the country guessing.

Yeah, but I am not guessing. Please don't look for sanity or logic in Sarah Palin's actions. She is a mad cow on the lose. That's really all one needs to know.

Just in: The Washington Post makes fun of Sarah Palin's upcoming movie and publishes an imaginary script:

MORGAN FREEMAN (voice-over)

Ahem. My name is Sarah Palin. I was born and raised in a small town called Wasilla, Alaska. I’ve spent my whole life trying to escape it, and the rest of the world has spent its whole life trying to return me there, like a package with insufficient postage (chuckles). I wanted a reality TV show. They said, “Fine. Go back to Alaska.” I wanted to govern a whole state. They said, “Fine. Go back to Alaska.” I wanted to be Miss Alaska. They said, “Sorry, that’s just not happening.”

EXT. SOMEWHERE ELSE IN ALASKA – DAY

Sarah stands with Todd. We can only see her feet, because the camera is hidden in some bushes.

SARAH

I’m not going to be engaging in too much of that fictitiousness that I’ve been hearing about, in regards to that stuff in the chitchat, that I’m running with regard to hoping for the attention and the fiscal value and not feeling that good belly-fire. But in the unmortal words of Ronald Reagan, “Give me liberty or give me death, and Sarah Palin should be the President in the future, not of the future, or, as some amongst us say in regards to the future, ‘winning,’ but with and amongst, amongst the all-Americans.” Joe here knows what I’m talking about, don’t ya ,Joe?

TODD

I support you, Sarah, but I’m not sure what you just said actually makes any sense.

Bristol salsas past the camera.

BRISTOL

I’m here too! I’m shy and withdrawn, just like my new chin.

Andrew Sullivan received harsh criticism from right-wing websites for his comparison of Sarah Palin's upcoming propaganda piece "The Undefeated" to Leni Riefenstahl's infamous propaganda masterpiece "Triumph of the Will":

Andrew Sullivan's vendetta against Sarah Palin reached a new milestone on Friday after he insinuated that the former Alaska governor was somehow akin to Adolf Hitler. Sullivan referenced Leni Riefenstahl's infamous pro-Nazi movie after quoting a former Palin spokeswoman on what he labeled "the upcoming propaganda movie, 'Triumph Of The Will' 'The Undefeated.'"

Having watched "Triumph of the Will" (click for youtube), I am sure that there couldn't be a better comparison to Sarah's upcoming concoction, but then, Sarah Palin doesn't have a moustache, and therefore it's a proven scientific fact that she cannot be Adolf Hitler.

But there is something which I have been asking myself. We all know that Sarah Palin hates to give interviews to anyone who cannot be considered to be a faithful supporter - but did Adolf Hitler actually give interviews to the press?

I originally thought that he didn't. However, I was only half-right. Interestingly, there is a very fascinating story on the record about an attempt to interview Adolf Hitler - in 1931, by an American journalist. The story was published in 1936 in Harper's Magazine and can be read here.

The encounter was Hitler wasn't a success - but it surely was expensive:

Hitler’s secretary, a nervous little man who clattered like a teletype, introduced me. Herr Hitler paced back and forth in an almost unfurnished room. He wore black, which set off rosy cheeks against a dead white face. A lock of hair over his forehead frequently got in his way and he pushed it carefully aside. In civilian clothes he appeared far slimmer than in pictures in uniform.

The secretary read to him from my list of questions. None of them was particularly provocative. Hitler answered like a man who has lost all conversational tones. Everything was double or triple forte except the greeting and the farewell. Er brillt, as the Germans say.

“A Fascist government in France and a Nazi government in Germany – then the two nations would understand each other. . . .

“The Jews? Can you shoot flies with machine guns? By the way, you aren’t Jewish, are you? Your name is the same as that of the Jew police commissioner here. . . .

“Put the unemployed on the marginal land. . . .

“Between Germany and the United States there should be nothing but increasingly good relations. . . .”

The secretary said softly, “That was your last question.”

“Thank you.”

“Auf wiedersehen!”

I added. “I shall write this and send it over for your signature.”

“Certainly. With pleasure.”

I sent a copy of the interview and felt satisfied. Hitler had said nothing startling but it was the first interview he had given for many months.

Four hours later a messenger brought me an envelope. In it were the pages of the interview. Every line and every paragraph was crossed out, not neatly but savagely, with many blurs and blots. One line remained: “Between Germany and the United States there should be nothing but increasingly good relations.” Signed, Adolf Hitler. For that astounding fact I had paid two hundred marks. Possibly some of the things said did look brusque on paper but I had written them as they were spoken.

So here we have another politician who didn't like to have his words twisted by repeating them verbatim. Certainly "Triumph of the Will" (1934) was much more enjoyable from his point of view.

How to end on a more humorous note? After all, we can have so much fun with Sarah as well.

Twitter came to the rescue, where I just spotted the following clips from 2008 - have a relaxing Friday evening, everybody!

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Sarah Palin's Magical History Nationwide Bus Tour and Video: Lawrence O'Donnell Reasons Why Sarah Palin is Not Running for US President

By Kathleen

It has been quite a week. The "elected" were not raptured and it seems that they will have to suffer alongside "the sinners" until Judgement Day (which is definitely going to happen) takes place on October 21st, 2011. Elected and sinners, we now face the end of the world together.

Unfortunately, Sarah Palin has dominated the news this week. First the acquisition of what would appear to be the Palin Campaign HQs in Arizona, distastefully furnished with cheap plastic toys for the swimming hole. I can't wait for the inevitable shots of the interior. This was rapidly followed by The Mansour Confessions in which Rebecca concedes to Toki de la Vega that Bristyal is an embarrassment and that every family has one. (Or in the case of the Palin /Heath family a succession of dysfunctional characters.)

It would seem that someone forgot to include Toki or RAM in on the inside information that Bristyal was on a Mata Hari type mission to seduce Levi and get a public confession out of him insinuating that he is a liar and that Sarah is indeed the angel of the north. Subtext: Never underestimate the sexual power of a Palin woman. Toki valiantly continues to push against the unconscious stream of c4p Sarah adulation and advises that it would be unwise for Sarah to run. Still, we should consider the fact that Toki may just be afraid that Palin will pull a tendon or suffer some sort of running sport related injury. After all he does admit that he often posts for the sh*ts and giggles and that he does enjoy getting a rise out of taunting and misleading anti Palin bloggers.

Thanks but no thanks to the GI Film Festival Chairman and "film maker", Stephen K Brannon, a whole two hours of a reformed Palin is about to hit a cinema near you. The "Premier" showing will be in Iowa next month. Freedom isn't free, but the cinemas showing the Palin film would be wise to stock up on give away supplies of wheat grass pills as they are known for their digestive properties.

To round off this "horrible week" we have two further reports. And we finish on a high point.

Sarahpac has announced that Sarah will be on the road again as she sets off to restore the "Good in America".

I call it the Magical History Road Tour because it has been intimated by Palin aides that her trip is a history learning experience. Didn't she go to school? Perhaps she wasn't that exceptional a scholar or she just didn't pay attention? I wonder how many private luxury jets they will employ on the trip this time?

Anyway, the trip begins in Washington DC where Palin has the opportunity to ham it up yet again alongside angry motorcycle builder, Paul Teutal snr. whilst at the same time taking in the historical monuments that the capital has to offer. I just had a horrible thought. What if they decide to film the Magical History Road Tour?

Good news is that Henry Blodget, editor of Business Insider, has once again issued a challenge to Sarah Palin that she release absolute documented proof that Trig is her natural born son. Henry believes that such proof is simple. The article uses the graphic that Brad Scharlott recently posted in the comments here at Politicalgates, and Henry reveals that Brad has had a number of in depth interviews discussing his graphics with Laura Novak over at her blog.

Read Henry Blodget's full post at the Business Insider.

The winners of the five copies of Frank Bailey's, Blind Allegiance, have been pulled out of Patrick's cowboy hat.. Thank you to everyone who took part. Winners are Steve, Celine, Sheri, Maureen, and Cynthia. I hope you all enjoy your books and once again many thanks go to our very generous book donors.

I have 2 copies of Frank Schaeffer's new book, Sex, Mom and God to give away. I will pick names out of the hat again so email me kathleenpoliticalgates@gmail.com. Good luck to those who enter. Entries close end of day Saturday, 28th May, 2011.

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Update:

In the following report at The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell outlines his reasons why he believes that Sarah Palin will not run for the Presidency.

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Thursday News Links -Ohio:Tim Ryan Asks Hard Questions; Egypt - Essam Sharaf; USA; Frankfurt Airport Shooting of USA Military,Palin Praises Breitbart

OHIO:

Crooks and Liars reports that Rep. Tim Ryan in a speech against Senate Bill 5 wants to know whether or not US workers who contribute to the wealth of society are going to have their collective bargaining rights respected. Ryan argues that workers collective rights and their pensions should be protected when the State of Ohio wants to push forward estate tax cuts which would benefit the wealthiest people in the state.





LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - THE LAST WORD ON SARAH PALIN:

Mediate writes that Lawrence O'Donnell confirms that he believes that Sarah Palin, who is trailing Tim Pawlenty in some polls, will not run as a possible contender as GOP representative in the 2012 presidency race because she is not willing to give up her million dollar pay check from Fox. My brain says yes, Lawrence is right! But my heart says no, he isn't!




USA:

Justice John G Roberts of the Supreme Court, in a "sticks and stones will break my bones but names can never harm me" decision, ruled yesterday that hate speech is protected if it "addresses matters of public import on public property."

On the otherhand, Justice Alito thinks that "vicious verbal attacks" make "no contribution to the public debate" if they inflict further pain on private individuals who are already suffering. Link to the ruling here.

Palin inserted herself into the Court's decision here.

Wonkette broke down the meaning of her tweet and came to the view that Sarah Palin is a victim. AGAIN.


EGYPT:





BBC has announced that Egypt's Prime Minister, Ahmed Shafiq, who was appointed days before Hosni Mubarack's resignation as President, has resigned. Shafiq has been replaced by Essam Sharaf who has been asked to form a new government. Reuters lists a few facts about Essam Sharaf. A twitter message reveals that Sharaf was recommended for the position by a coalition of revolution groups. The twitter was sent by Ayman Mohyeldin who is a correspondent for Al Jazeera English.


FRANKFURT:

Der Spiegel reports that one US military person and a bus driver were killed, and two military personnel injured, in an incident at Frankfurt airport yesterday. A German born, 21 year old man, of Kosovo Albanian origin is in custody. The shooting took place in an unsecured area of the airport which is open to the public. Whilst German authorities are pursuing the idea that the suspect could have links to Islamist terrorist organisations they also do not rule out the fact that he may have been acting on his own.


PALIN PRAISES BREITBART'S BOOK:





Politico informs that Sarah Palin considers pathological liar and dirty trickster Andrew Breitbart an "invaluable asset to the conservative cause." Click the book cover to read Palin's expressions of approval.