US Weekly Reports Satirical Palin Story As Real News

BUSTED!

US Weekly published a story on Wednesday that turned out to be false. In fact, the "source" for their article was a parody website called "SuperTuesdayNews.com." US Weekly has subsequently scrubbed the story from their site, but not before another site by the name of "Gossip Cop" captured a screen-shot of the shoddy journalism.

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Gossip Cop reports:

This is really bad.

Us Weekly has published what it claims are comments made by Sarah Palin, in which the former vice presidential candidate blasts Christina Aguilera’s performance of the national anthem at Super Bowl XLV.

Except the over-the-top “quotes,” which Us Weekly attributes to a Monday radio interview with Sean Hannity, were actually written for a satire website.

Again: Palin’s Aguilera comments are fabricated.

They come from a satire piece.

Only Us Weekly posted the “Palin” comments as real.

Therefore, according to the outlet, Palin calls Aguilera a “demanding beauty queen who’s clearly in over her head.”

The fake “Palin” also talks about wanting to “deport” Aguilera, because “spicy Latin princesses” shouldn’t be allowed to sing at the Super Bowl.

“Unemployment is at nine percent, yet we have to suffer through a performance by a foreigner with a poor grasp of the English language,” the fake “Palin” supposedly tells “Hannity” in the phony interview.

It boggles the mind that a major outlet could read these obviously satirical, fake quotes and treat them as the real deal.

US Weekly proves once again why the public cannot trust everything they read from the media. Maybe they should consider setting some new standards for their writers in the future. At the very least, to avoid embarrassing situations like this one.

Mediaite also weighed in here

Mediaite Proves Governor Palin's Point

Glynnis MacNicol from Mediaite posted a piece today called, "Sarah Palin: The ‘Lamestream’ Media Is Hurting Our Troops." The article is a hostile effort to deflect attention from what Governor Palin actually said. She never said that the "media is hurting our troops," although I do believe she called the press 'lame.' She said:

"We've got to hold the press accountable when you know they're making things up and telling untruths. We've got to do this together.

By the way, I am the biggest proponent of freedom of the press in this country. Our young men and women in uniform willing to fight and die for our constitutional rights including that right to a free press. It's why I am hot on this lamestream media issue. It's why I am adamant that they tell the truth. How dare anyone disrespect our troop’s sacrifice by claiming the right to print and to say anything without a corresponding responsibility to truth."

The media's role is supposed to be one that tells the populace the who, what, when, where, and why's of any given story. However, we have seen the media stop doing that and instead they use their platform to push an agenda and distort the truth. What Governor Palin is clearly saying, is that the media has a huge responsibility to uphold the ethics of their trade. These people would not be able to practice their professions without the sacrifices of the people who serve our country in the military. The media has a big responsibility and they owe every ability they have to freely communicate to our troops. They trash that responsibility every time they overlook their ethics and instead try to push that agenda.

Governor Palin gave a great speech Friday night in Iowa. You can see it in it's entirety here. You knew the media would be upset by her calling them out. This article is a clear display of their displeasure, and by referring to her as "Frankenstein" at the end, they merely prove her point.