Palin Calls Photoshopped Images 'Atrocious'

For the past several months, Linda Kellen Biegel, the author of the Democratic Alaskan political blog Blue Oasis, has covered conservative Alaskan radio personality Eddie Burke's treatment of fellow Alaskan Andree McLeod, a self-described political watchdog who has vocally and consistently criticized Palin. As Biegel's coverage wore on, she came to suspect that the Governor's office had directly assisted what she has called the Republican Burke's "smear campaign" against McLeod.
Moved to investigate the validity of her suspicions, Biegel requested that the Office of the Governor provide her with whatever e-mails might be pertinent to her investigation (i.e. any e-mails between the Governor's office, Burke, and anti-McLeod writer Sheila Toomey). After corresponding with the Governor's staff, Biegel found out that copies of the aforementioned documents could be hers -- after she paid administrative fees amounting to $5,552.64.Undeterred, Biegel began to raise money on her blog, which she then started to festoon with satirical, altered images featuring Palin and Burke. And therein began the problem. On the fourth day of her fund raising, Biegel posted the above image. In a smiling Palin's arms squirms her infant son Trig -- with Burke's face photoshopped into the place of the boy's.
Wasting no time, Palin spokesperson Meghan Stapleton launched this diatribe, published today by Politico:
The mere idea of someone doctoring the photo of a special needs baby is appalling. To learn that two Alaskans did it is absolutely sickening. Linda Kellen Biegel, the official Democrat Party blogger for Alaska, should be ashamed of herself and the Democratic National Committee should be ashamed for promoting this website and encouraging this atrocious behavior.According to Politico, Blieger offered this statement in response:
Babies and children are off limits. It is past time to restore decency in politics and real tolerance for all Americans. The Obama Administration sets the moral compass for its party. We ask that special needs children be loved, respected and accepted and that this type of degeneracy be condemned.
It's called 'Baby Burke' because it's Eddie Burke...basically his probable second-biggest fantasy about the Governor. So, connecting the dots for you...WE'RE MAKING FUN OF EDDIE BURKE!!!!!!Still unwavering in her desire to ascertain whatever pertinent e-mails may sit in the Governor's inbox or deleted folder, Biegel is continuing her fundraiser. At the time of this writing, she reports that it has yielded $4,646.
Even though it's hard to argue with the Palin camp's statement that special needs children should be "loved, respected, and accepted," it's doubtful that Biegel even had Trig's disability in mind when she altered the image.
But, here's the rub.
If Palin wanted to preserve the dignity of her son by truly making him "off limits," she's gone and messed up. By binding her world-famous name to such a narrowly read, provincial blog, Palin has in fact -- intentionally or no -- taken this image from the mini-blogosphere of what may be the most secluded state in the Union and brought it to the attention of the world. So, now, instead of a debatably malicious image of her son appearing on thousands of Anchorage laptops, it is appearing on millions of monitors around the world. That, dear readers, we cannot stand behind. [From: Blue Oasis and Politico, via Huffington Post]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsmlopez2197Jun 26th 2009 7:39AM
typical, the demicrats love to take on the issues of the oppressed minorities, but only as long as it suits there needs, you will never find images of the Obama girls in slave outfits picking cotton on a republican blog.
Maybe we should put a slave pic out of the Obama girls with the caption "restoring the natural order", no that would make us as PETTY, IMATURE, BIGOTED, and HURTFUL as the DEMICRATS.
Linda KlauschieJun 26th 2009 8:55AM
This picture was doctored by one person, not the whole Demoratic Party. As for your statement, "Maybe we should put a slave pic out of the Obama girls with the caption "restoring the natural order", no that would make us as PETTY, IMATURE, BIGOTED, and HURTFUL as the DEMICRATS," the fact that you put it out there makes you just as immature, bigoted, and hurtful as you accuse Democrats of being. You also might consider using spell check or a dictionary (if you know how).
Steve DudasJun 26th 2009 7:40AM
Oh, God! Sarah's crying about someone else picking on her. Waaaaa waaaaa waaaaa. She needs to grow up and stop her whining. She's got a complaint at least once a week about the media. Real thin skin. But wait! There's more! Let's revisit that joke of John McCain's in 1998 at a Republican dinner. "Why is Chelsea so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father!" (Google it if you don't believe me.) So, knowing how classy the republicans can be, Limbaugh follows it up by calling Chelsea "the White House dog". Nice. Hey, repubs! Your house is made of glass!
dpperryJun 26th 2009 9:48AM
Wow, Steve, you only had to go back 11 years to find something you consider equivalent coming from a conservative. Let's be honest. Neither side has a monopoly on being insensitive and making unfair attacks. Not every conservative cheats on his or her spouse, just as not every liberal president seduces interns in the oval office. The difference is I remember Rush and Senator McCain being severely criticized by both sides for his comment about Chelsea. When a lib makes a degrading, disgusting attack about the child of a conservative, only the conservatives speak up. As someone said earlier in these postings, libs only believe in free speech for libs. For them anything goes.
jancJun 26th 2009 7:49AM
The liberal news media has just gone totally insane. After all this going after Sarah Palin and her family in such an unprofessional way, why would anyone ever give them any credibility ever again. Sarah Palin should be able to sue these media crackpots for every dime they have. These people on these liberal media have really gotten low and in the sewer. Even people I use to think were intelligent professional people I see them as pathetic lowlifes now. OMG, it has changed these people into horrible freaks now. Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Gloria Borger, David Gergin, Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Chris Mathews, Rachal Maddows, Keith Mathews, Joy Bahr, Barabara Walters, Brian Williams, John King, Larry King, Huffington, and so many more have turned into the most vile down right evil and mean spirited animals. Do they want to be viewed in that way? Is this the kind of influence Obama and his cronies have on them. They've sold their souls to the devil and the whole world is viewing their ugly personalities.
KenJun 26th 2009 7:48AM
Sarah Palin never, I REPEAT, NEVER, initiates the media issues. She has had to defend herself and her family from a liberal media that seems hellbent on hurting her reputation and thereby causing her to step back and leave the political arena. I applaud her courage and determination and would take her as my President over our idiot president Obama anytime. The media is hurting our country and is moraly currupt. I am boycotting every product advertised by liberal media as a way of doing my share to put a stop to their relentless twisting of the truth.
jancJun 26th 2009 8:06AM
Kenny, I agree with you. I boycott any company that has anything at all to do with these liberal crackpots. I will not support anything they have anything to do with. They are hurting, you can bet on that. The more they do like this, the more support they lose. I have friends, family, and acquaintances that are leaving this new Democratic Party of lowlifes. They don't like the effects Obama is having on them. It is like a spell has been put on the CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS crowd. It is an evil spell. I've never seen this before in my years on this earth. I really believe they will allow our country to sink into the worst country in the world before they will wake up and see what they are doing. This is awful and appalling. It is like with all the terrible politicians we have in Washington, they don't want a decent human being there to stop the same old crap that they have been getting by with for years. Here we have been complaining about the ones there who are destroying this country, but when we have someone decent to speak up for us and do something good for a change, they trample them down. Sarah has proven to be one strong human being. What we have up in Washington right now would have hid their heads and ran by now. I only wish Sarah was our president right now instead of what we have.
chrisJun 26th 2009 12:06PM
you are contradicting yourself. you defend palin being attacked and then you call someone else an idiot, hmmmm
athomas2024Jun 26th 2009 9:47AM
Ah, yes...but man can not survive off of guns, beer, and cigarettes alone! Since it is alleged that all but Fox News is "liberal media" you had better become self-sufficient or stick to the conservative staples since most other products are advertised on the major networks.
urbanpdJun 26th 2009 11:59AM
I agree with you also. I am boycotting all products advertised by the liberal left media stations. You might consider also boycotting all Pepsi Products (Frito-Lay-Quaker Oats-Pepsi-Gatorade) because Pepsi is giving millions to another left wing organization. Keep up the Fight!!!
Roger TylerJun 26th 2009 7:49AM
Jenny - keep your thinking cap on and remember Ted Kennedy (murder), John Edwards (adultry), Bill Clinton (adultry, perjury, desecration of the highest office on the planet). We won't even get into the crew that now reside in Congress and the White House. Demos. are the easiest targets to hit when it comes to anything immoral or illegal. You're all a waste of oxygen...
RedjagJun 26th 2009 7:52AM
Where do all these people who are keeping up on every detail of Palin's life get their money from? This bimbo paid 5500.00 for email messages that really said nothing - where did the money come from? I guess the Dems are really scared that a common person, IE non- East Coast Lawyer Intellectual liberal may actually get political power and represent the average person = Gasp! God Forbid! Therefore they need to keep the pressure on Palin to make sure she is alwayd defending herself and her family - even if it bankrupts her - it is for the good of the country and liberal power - right? Carville and the Dem Party are behind this, with their big business (anyone say bailouts - wonder where their loyalties lay) and hollywood backers. Ah, the price of power, eh? Too bad the average liberal believes the ends justify the means ,eh? Too bad the average american is blind!
looking glassJun 26th 2009 7:53AM
I have never seen just one person raise so much fear as she doew with the dums, I mean the dems. Dems cant handle truth as is obvious in the stupid comments they make in supporting the muslem anti american president.
JohnJun 26th 2009 7:53AM
What's really pathetic are the constant references to how 'hot' Palin is. No wonder the Republican party is in such tatters! If the thought process is that limited there clearly aren't any viable ideas careening around in those empty heads. There is such a thing as parody. Evidently non of the Repubs. read Mad magazine as an adolescent. They poked satirical fun at every American icon they could dream up. It would have made your head explode. "Come down off the cross..... somebody needs the wood."
Gordon RoustonJun 26th 2009 7:55AM
Governor Palin is such a great threat to Dems, to Liberals, to anyone that stands for something, they have no backbone, no morals, no life basically and nothing what so ever to attack her on so they go after her family and mundane little things that have no meaning. Watch people, especially politicians when they have nothing to say or nothing to stand on they always go after a persons family , what they wear or what they said (20) years ago. they just make up stuff and hope it sticks, resonates through the media. The media and people will always pick up on all that trash, hyperbole, gossip, inuendo when they are weak and shallow. No matter what is said and done to her she wil rise to Prsident after Obama gets through pushing his socilaism on us and completely bankrupts our great Country.
RoddJun 26th 2009 7:56AM
jemma112 ..Obama does not always have his kids in the media like Palin, if you even bothered to notice the first time we saw in months them was when foreign media had pictures of them in Europe. You sound really dumb and childish saying "Just as obama should stop "pimping" his kids". Palin does have her kids all over the media, that's a fact but you cannot compare her to Obama because it's simply not true, the media here leaves his kids alone..but I guess you cannot see that.
JohnJun 26th 2009 8:01AM
Palin reminds me of Reese Witherspoon in the movie Election. Blissfully self-absorbed and a climber at all cost. The universe revolves around her and any possible way to construe any comment or image as a personal attack is an opportunity for her to feed her already inflated ego. The comfort is that she has so many dim-witted supporters who will ensure the continual demise of neo-Con policies. The only thing accomplished by these wing nuts is the global contempt for our country because of the heavy handed, self-indulging practices that disregard the interests of anyone but our own. We share this planet with others and should behave accordingly.
mgc947Jun 26th 2009 8:09AM
Jenny: ATTENTION LIBERALS: Please take not of this. The man was wrong, republicans are calling for his resignation quite unlikke the democrats who lie, deny, cover up and try to bury the issue ala the Kennedys, Clinton, Edwards etal. You have no right to lecture anybody about taking the moral high ground.
veggaryJun 26th 2009 8:11AM
Lee Bains ended in the same sewer Biegel opened. How intelectually dishonest can the author be, there is no such thing as the"mini blogospher" if that were true she would have nothing to write about. Just admit your prejudice and stop making believe this is some journalism class at the county college.
Biegel's actions are unconscionable, a mean act of a sad, disgusting , individual and Lee Bains sells out to take yet another shot at a great woman.
pasinby1Jun 26th 2009 8:21AM
I cannot believe the invidiousness of the democrat party and their politic minded press , there was a time ,the only place you could read drivel like this was in the national enquirer !