Jackson Jambalaya

I really do not want to write about The Jackson Free Press and Madame DeLadd today. I am working on something about David Archie that you will enjoy reading but every time I start writing the article, she writes something so outrageous I have to call her out on it.

Ms. Ladd focused her inner rage on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently, attacking her faith, morality, family, character, politics, and anything else she can think of about the Vice-Presidential nominee. The Fondren Flamer went so far as to state she was a secessionist (thus questioning her patriotism):
"At this point, I've read enough to know that my initial doubts were right on. She's a radical-right, anti-government-to-the-point-seceding conservative, and seems completely out of touch with where the country is right now. (She would have made more sense back before the anti-government movement started falling apart and being connected with ugly events.)
posted by ladd on 09/01/08 at 09:34 PM" http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/mccain_chooses_alaska_hockey_mom_as_running_mate_082908/#c134979
"ABC News has confirmed with the organization that Palin was a member.So, is it "patriotic" to want your state to secede from the U.S.? And ABC is reporting that the McCain is sending a "rapid response" team to Alaska to see what other surprises await about Ms. Palin. Watch the video. posted by ladd on 09/01/08 at 08:18 PM "

This is the best one:
"I don't think her daughter's pregnancy makes her unfit to serve. Her position as an extreme radical-right secessionist who uses her position to go after her enemies, and could be impeached in her own state, is more the problem I have with her as vice president.However, this does show the hypocrisy of a party, and candidates, who bash single mothers and their families and believe in failed abstinence-only policies. posted by ladd on 09/02/08 at 07:27 PM"

Unfortunately, Lotus over on FOLO fell for this garbage as well, pointing out the ABC story. However, it must be noted that Lotus didn't add any comments of her own stating that Ms. Palin is a secessionist. Knowing Lotus, I'm sure she will post the following AP story if she sees it.

The smear campaign against Governor Palin has been one for the books. First the Daily Kos and their allies slander Governor Palin with the disgusting charge she faked her pregnancy and passed her daughter's child as her own. Congressman Wexler is saying she is a Nazi sympathizer because HE claims she worked for Pat Buchanan. She is called a law-breaker and someone who is corrupt in the handling of the Alaska state police. Allegations of her possibly being in a Christian Identity Church (She attends an Assembly of God church. Never mind Obama's racist church that he attended for 20 years) are made. Now our local high priestess of slime calls her out as being a secessionist with its accompanying racist and neo-confederate implications.

However, the AP printed this story this morning:
"Voter registration records show Sarah Palin registered in May 1982 as a member of the Republican Party and has not changed her affiliation.....
Voter registration records and past news reports, however, show Palin never registered as a member of the Independence Party, and backed Steve Forbes' presidential campaign in 2000, not Buchanan...." http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpC0ED5JB9qx1iUsd9xz-dBbwWBwD92UTA501

The New York Times also printed a retraction:
"The chairwoman of an Alaskan political party that advocates a vote on the state’s secession from the union said Tuesday that she had been mistaken when she said Gov. Sarah Palin was a member of the group.
A front-page story in The New York Times on Tuesday and articles in other news media reported that Ms. Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party for two years in the 1990’s.....
On Tuesday night, Ms. Clark said that her initial statement was incorrect and had been based on erroneous information provided by another member of the party whom she declined to identify. The McCain campaign also disputed the Times report, saying that Ms. Palin had been registered consistently as a Republican.
After checking the party’s archives, Ms. Clark said that she could find no documentation that Governor Palin had been a member of the party. She said Ms. Palin attended the party’s 1994 and 2006 conventions and provided a video-taped address as governor to the 2008 convention. ..." http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/alaska-party-official-says-palin-was-not-a-member/

This is why I didn't immediately comment on these allegations when they first appeared. Anyone who keeps up with politics and campaigns knows that lurid and sensational charges are made all of the time. When such claims are made, usually the truth comes out in a few days, as is taking place with these false allegations concerning Governor Palin. Ms. Ladd and to a lesser degree Lotus should have asked some basic questions such as where was the proof of the party official's claim. Political parties do keep rosters of their members and one would think that a party official stating the Governor was a member of her party would have produced SOME evidence of her membership. However, the rabid hatred for all things Republican drives people like Ms. Ladd to lose any sense of good judgement and smear people like Governor Palin without getting their facts straight or asking basic questions. Ms. Ladd owes her readers a correction and apology on her website.