Showing posts with label Dan Fagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Fagan. Show all posts

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Sarah Palin has a short, and selective, memory.

Sister Sarah prodded her indentured servant Facebook writer to post the following in response to news that local radio jerkwad, and Joe Miller supporter, Dan "Are you going to finish that dessert" Fagan had been taken off of the air because of complaints that he was engaging in election fraud :

Individuals like Dan Fagan have a fundamental right to speak their minds without threats from the incumbent Senator from Alaska. It is hard to find a constitutional right Americans cherish more than the right to free speech. This was a right Joe Miller, as a decorated combat veteran – a tank commander tested in battle, was willing to die to defend. Dan Fagan has not always agreed with me, but I will gladly defend his right to speak freely on his radio show, which he has often used to criticize me. In fact, Fagan has actually used his radio show to attack and insult me, my husband, my children, and my family in just about every way possible. He was especially insulting to my son, who left for a war zone to defend Fagan’s right to attack our family. But when I was his governor, I never would have dreamed of threatening his right to free speech. I support him in this fight because this D.C. Beltway thuggery, as exemplified by Lisa Murkowski’s latest threat, is ruining our country. The powers that be want ordinary Americans to sit down and shut up and let the ruling class ride us right off the debt cliff we’re heading towards with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid steering the nation’s car. We can’t let them. Now is the time to put aside our past differences and stand up to the establishment powers.

Okay well encouraging people to fraudulently attempt to cause mayhem at polling places in order to benefit your candidate may not exactly fall under the protection of the First Amendment, but I do agree with Palin that people's right to free speech MUST be protected!

However unlike Palin I also believed that back in December of 2009, when she had ME and my friend  Dennis Zaki ejected from an "open to the public" book signing by the Wasilla police.

The woman who once called on the press to "quit makin' things up" took it a step further yesterday by allegedly banning four members of the media from a book event in Wasilla, Alaska.

So let me see if I have this clear.  Free speech is protected when it might keep a radio host who supports your candidate from being suspended, but not when it means that bloggers and news people who have been critical of you might ask you an embarrassing question in front of your fans Ms. Palin?

You know the Constitution is not a spigot you can turn on and off at will.  Either it protects free speech or it doesn't.  

Hypocrisy thy name is Palin!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Tank Jones defends Levi Johnston on Anchorage radio.

I NEVER listen to Dan Fagan, but this was too good to miss. (click the link above for the audio)

Can you believe how hard Dan works to dismiss the things Levi has said? What Fagan fails to understand is that Sarah Palin IS crazy.

And if he has trouble swallowing these allegations then I can guarantee he is going to choke to death on the next things to come out.

I stopped linking to the Alaska Standard because they started to get all wingnutty on me. But since this audio is borrowed from that site I am honor bound to provide a link. I am not a Dan fan, but he is not nearly as bad as some of the crazy radio morons around here.

Friday, May 08, 2009

Though it is against my policy I am going to post this audio from Dan Fagan's show because on it he gets spanked by Tank Jones.

The first thing that occurs to me while I listen to this if Dan Fagan were actually in the same room with the physically imposing Tank Jones he would be much too busy peeing on himself to even begin to think about arguing with the man.

As a matter of fact I believe that if Fagan ever even saw Tank he would reflexively reach into his pocket and hand him his lunch money.

Oh they did meet once.

There is no way that Fagan forgot Tank, and I have no doubt that Fagan did not allow Tank anywhere near him without security.

What a weasel.

(BTW let me give a hat tip to the Anonymous person who sent this to me. Thanks.)

Monday, January 05, 2009

Alaska bloggers cost Levi Johnston his North Slope job. Oops.

Levi Johnston, the Wasilla teenager planning to marry Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to participate in an electrical apprenticeship program, Johnston's father said today.

Johnston this fall began working at the Milne Point oil field through the ASRC Energy Services apprenticeship program.

However, radio talk show commentator Dan Fagan, in a newspaper column published Sunday, questioned how Johnston could take part in the apprenticeship program without the required high school education.

Johnston's father, Keith Johnston, said in a telephone interview that his son decided to resign today and return home to work on his education.

"He felt it was the best thing to do to kind of calm the waters, so to speak," the elder Johnston said.

I doubt very seriously that it was only Dan Fagan's column that contributed to Alaskans questioning whether Levi was qualified for that sweet apprentice electrician job or not.

The topic was extensively covered by this blog, as well as Mudlfats, Andrew Halcro, Progressive Alaska, Celtic Diva, not to mention a number of national blogs and websites, that found the story much too juicy to pass up.

Now I am sure that Dan Fagan's article may have started the ball rolling (Even though it was at least two days after my first post on the subject), but I would hardly give him all of the credit. I think that Papa Johnston would just rather give him credit because he is "one them". In other words a conservative.

Don't want to give those "liberal bloggers" too much publicity now do we?

The senior Mr. Johnston also undermines the main premise of the Fagan article by saying that Governor Sarah did NOT have anything to do with Levi's preferential treatment.

Keith Johnston also said the governor had nothing to do with getting Levi Johnston the oil field job. Keith Johnston said his own position as an ASRC construction engineer accounts for any help his son received in landing work.

Whether Mr. Johnston's account is true, or Dan Fagan's is true, I think we can all rest assured that if Levi was indeed qualified for that slope job he would still be up there making a boatload of money. You don't just walk away from that kind of cash simply because somebody hurt your feelings.