Martin Eisenstadt was not - I repeat - was not Carl Cameronâs source for the Sarah Palin smears
November 13, 2008 by William K. Wolfrum
(Update: As I was saying.)
Let me just get this off my chest once and for all: Martin Eisenstadt was not the source for Carl Cameronâs Fox News story about “anonymous sources” telling him that Sarah Palin did not know whether Africa was a continent or country, threw temper tantrums, etc.
Cameron spent the entire campaign with McCain. He knew everyone who worked there. He never spoke to Eisenstadt at all. The “anonymous sources” are still anonymous, and all they were doing was dumping blame on Palin to take the focus off the fact that those on McCainâs campaign were horribly, horribly inept.
So for bloggers and others who now know that Eisenstadt is a hoax, yet now believe that somehow Eisenstadt tricked Cameron, well, you are equally guilty as MSNBC and others who fell for the original story from Eisenstadt.
Whoever told Cameron about Palinâs foibles remains anonymous. This really shouldnât be that difficult to figure out.
P.S.: And, yes, I exist. I do dabble in satire, but Iâm not a hoax. Seriously, people, youâre killing me here.
-WKW
Iâm confused.
Maybe Iâm a hoax.
I believe in you! Seriously, I think the tongue in cheek in the Times would only confuse the people who voted for McCain. Oh no!, thatâs 46% of the country. Iâm sorry. But the rest of us believe in you, and science, and evolution and global warming. The original hoaksters gave you quite a kudos. Good job!
[...] 2. Having one of biggest newspapers on the planet insinuate that youâre a hoax - not so much. Update: From Jerry Ludwig in comments: “I believe in you! Seriously, I think the tongue in cheek in the Times would only confuse the people who voted for McCain. Oh no!, thatâs 46% of the country.” [...]
[...] 4. Their hoax that Eisenstadt was the one who leaked the Palin info has created a new false meme - that they were the ones who fooled Cameron in the first place, thus the original smears were not true and that Palin deserves an apology. This just isnât the case, and even Mirvish has admitted as such. Nonetheless, Iâm feeling pretty confident that many, many people will believe that Cameron was hoaxed, regardless. I completely agree that the Palin smears are a sideshow and unfair to her. Sarah Palin did not lose the election for John McCain. The people John McCain chose to run his campaign lost it. And more than that, Barack Obama won it. Nonetheless, the “anonymous sources” - obviously campaign members looking to get the stench of an inept campaign off of them - are still anonymous, and after seeing the vitriol unleashed at “Eisenstadt,” they will likely stay that way. [...]