Sunday, March 2, 2014

Politico Editor Who Mocked Palin Over Ukraine Doubles Down, Refuses to Give Her Credit



Politico Editor Who Mocked Palin Over Ukraine Doubles Down, Refuses to Give Her Credit

by Tony Lee 2 Mar 2014, 10:12 AM PDT
The former Foreign Policy editor who dismissed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's warnings about Ukraine during the 2008 campaign still refuses to give Palin credit for her prescience and not engaging in the groupthink that has plagued the mainstream media and the chattering elite.

As Breitbart News reported, Blake Hounshell, who was then editor of Foreign Policy magazine and now edits Politico magazine, wrote in 2008 that Palin's remarks that Russia's Vladimir Putin may invade Ukraine if Barack Obama were elected president were "strange" and depicted an "extremely far-fetched scenario."

Palin took to Facebook on Friday, linked to the Breitbart News piece, and then simply wrote, "Yes, I could see this one from Alaska. I'm usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as 'an extremely far-fetched scenario' by the 'high-brow' Foreign Policy magazine."

However, Hounshell doubled down, dismissing Palin for calling him a "dummy," before sarcastically writing, "Yes, Twitter, Sarah Palin totally called this exact Ukraine scenario 6 years ago."

Hounshell then said that he was getting heat on Twitter and asked a BuzzFeed reporter where she got the strength to deal with barbs.

Politico even wrote about the editor who derided Palin (Hounshell), but conveniently omitted any reference to the fact that he now edits their magazine.

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Note: Thomson Reuters was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the Committee for Economic Development.
Paula J. Dobriansky is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the SVP for Thomson Reuters.
Steven A. Denning is a director at Thomson Reuters, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Kenneth M. Duberstein is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the chairman & CEO for the Duberstein Group, Inc., and was the VP for the Committee for Economic Development.
Obamacare vs. Medicare (Past Research for the Duberstein Group, Inc)
Richard H. Davis is a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and a managing director at Davis Manafort.
Viktor F. Yanukovich is a Davis Manafort client, and was the president of the Ukraine.











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