You wrote,

“This is unfortunate. I am a sincere independent conservative much like Sarah Palin. I will not participate at a web site which practices unwarranted censorship just as Sarah Palin would not participate.”

That is your choice. My position on this is first — I am paying for and operating this site. I am putting a tremendous amount of effort into its operation and maintenance. My authors devote a lot of effort to their work. Freedom of the press belongs to the owner of the press. We are now on 48 comments in this thread. How many are from the back-and-forth related to another website? I think I was very fair to both you and Kathy and let you both speak your minds and vent your spleens. Kathy has since moved on from this subject to other things. It’s time for you to do the same. You’re welcome to come here anytime and show your support of Sarah Palin, but this other stuff is finished now.

“I support reasonable commonly expected censorship of material which has no socially redeemable value.”

We’re on the same page there, nothing to belabor.

“I fiercely oppose censorship which is employed to suppress truth”

We had 48 comments now in which there was plenty of back and forth about your grievance. None of it was censored…till the last comment, because I’ve come to realize that if I don’t take this step, this will perpetuate. And if I have not made myself abundantly clear, I will state it again. U4P cross posts at the other site. And I’m not going to start getting into problems there — because someone who was banned does not like the site. You had this thread to air your grievances — they’ve been aired. Now, it’s enough. Like I said — you can come here any time to support Sarah Palin, but you will not use this comment board to launch daily invective against a site that I post U4P’s material on. Get it? Got it? Good.

“I am an American Indian truth speaker.”

And I am an Italian, German, Polish, Russian, with a little tinge of American Indian thrown in truth speaker. I have two black truth speakers who author on the site. And several white ones. My wife is Mexican. So, what’s your point? Race and ethnicity have nothing to do with anything. I can’t stomach Obama and Carter almost equally. One is half black/half white, the other is all white. The politics of both are socialism. It’s the socialism I can’t stand. I couldn’t care less if Sarah Palin were black, white, brown, yellow, red, green or purple. Or if she were “Sam Palin”. I’d support her all the same. We’re Americans. Not Indians — or more properly Natives — blacks, Hispanics, whites, whatever. We’re Americans and part of one human race.

I edited this last comment to remove references to another website that this blog is cross-posted to. Please refrain from airing dirty laundry or your personal issues from other sites here. I permitted it as part of your back-and-forth with Kathy. That conversation is finished. Your thoughts about the other site are more than well-published. U4P also posts on the other site and we have not had any problems there. We want to keep it that way. Enough with the grievances. Next comment containing a grievance about the other site will be deleted, not edited.

Now…back to your points….yes, polls are to be taken with a grain of salt. We run them from time to time, but unscientific polls in particular are problematic, especially Internet polls. The same person can vote hundreds of times. You pointed out where questions can contradict one another within the same poll. We have issues of sample sizes and who gets sampled and how. The only polls that are somewhat accurate are Qunnipiac, Rasmussen, and Zogby.

Alyssa Bonk is a “Headline Groupie”. Her method of research is to glance at headlines then squawk back those headlines like a mindless parrot. The girl has not the slightest clue if what she squawks is true or untrue. Bonk is a highly stereotypical blogger often found at Smart Girl Politics and far too many political blogs around the web.

I will use one of Bonk’s comments to headline how bloggers at[Ed Note: eliminated ref to a specific website] around the web are simply clueless.

Bonk: “…71 percent of Americans do not believe that Palin…”

Hers is an indirect reference to an ABC / Washington Post poll conducted by TNS Global, specifically a question if Sarah is qualified to be president. There are obvious problems pointing to Bonk not being the sharpest pencil in the official No. 2 Pencil Box.

This reference of hers is pulled from an article written by Eugene Robinson over at Real Clear Politics. Robinson is a well known fringe element extreme left liberal. He is a full on Marxist who is so deep in the tank for Obama the boy will never be able to surface for a breath of fresh air. Robinson routinely writes “hit pieces” about Palin, the Tea Party and independent conservatives. Robinson is beyond biased, he is a bigot. Nonetheless, Alyssa Bonk cites Robinson as a credible factual source.

This ABC / Washington Post poll is conducted by TNS Global a company which specializes in consumer marketing; cheesy “info-mercial” junk and TNS is known for being tangled up in scams. TNS is not qualified to conduct polls related to social issues nor political issues. TNS is headquarter in London, England. I would think ABC / Post would hire an American company as a display of patriotism. ABC and the Washington Post are well known left liberal “Yellow Journalism” media outlets which report opinion as factual news.

This TNS poll itself is highly flawed:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_021010.html?sid=ST2010021100035

Readers will note 22 questions are asked before getting around to Sarah Palin. Those previous 22 questions are of a nature which has respondents in a bad mood; bring about negative thoughts. By the time this poll asks about Sarah, respondents are mad.

There is inconsistency in questions 25, 26 and 27 as with many other question series. Results raise so many questions this poll is to be considered invalid.

Question 25 displays 35% have a favorable impression of the Tea Party, 40% not favorable. Question 26 displays 35% know something about the Tea Party, 64% know “little to nothing” about the Tea Party. Question 27 displays 45% agree with the Tea Party, 36% disagree with the Tea Party.

Readers here at Devito’s web page can instantly recognize this dire problem with poll results for those questions; direct contradiction. A most silly contradiction is a majority do not have a favorable impression of the Tea Party yet a majority agree with the Tea Party.

Hello! Those people are as inconsistent and fickle as my own feminine gender; crazy makers!

A large majority know “little to nothing” about the Tea Party. How could those surveyed offer valid opinions about favorable, unfavorable and agreement, disagreement? A majority of respondents know “little to nothing” yet offer opinion assumed by TNS to be valid.

I would surmise those folks knowing “little to nothing” about the Tea Party reflects they know “little to nothing” about Sarah Palin.

For each item listed by Alyssa Bonk, I could mount the same type of questioning critique. Bonk of [snip], like Sue of [snip], both are Headline Groupies who do not have enough sense to independently verify the veracity of their cited sources; both cite sources which are either deceitful in nature or biased or simply invalid.

This is plague upon our peoples. Participants at [snip] most political blogs, are Headline Groupies who mindlessly parrot fabricated sensational headlines.

Those political parrots only serve to inflict harm upon our America.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
Puma Politics

I agree that it was not fair to Teri Christoff and Stacy Mott; who were not here to defend themselves, though if they want to post something, they are most certainly welcome. There was a lot of back-and-forth between Taha and yourself and I posted all of it….well for the simple reason of fairness to both of you, for one and to not have gaps in the conversation for another.

I think we can all agree on the following:

1. You and Taha don’t like each other (no kidding!).
2. Taha was banned from SGP, because the administrators determined she violated their TOS.
3. SGP is a generic conservative site. As such, not everyone there likes Gov. Palin. I know that going in. SGP is not Team Sarah. My friends who are on SGP (who also tend to be on Team Sarah), have no issue with my content, and those who don’t like Gov. Palin probably don’t read my content — or read it and don’t comment. It works well.

I will state again that both Teri and Stacy (Mott) have been gracious with me and have let me post my Sarah stuff on SGP without issue….to include fund-raisers for SarahPAC and the AK Fund Trust. If SGP were so rabidly anti-Sarah, they would not be permitted to post that stuff there. I will state categorically that posting these fund-raisers got me banned from another site. The other site also probably took umbrage with my many edits to a particular article that they had to post and re-post (because all blogs there were moderated). Guess what? I hardly hear about the other site anymore, and I could care less about them. I’m getting kick-butt numbers here on U4P, and the other site was a blip on the radar.

A certain well-known generic conservative site that is operated by Romney supporters is a toxic environment for Sarah stuff. I haven’t posted at that site in nearly a year and won’t go back there till there is some fundamental change. I wasn’t banned, but one could say I self-banned. I have a whole host of Sarah-friendly venues to post to, and close friends and colleagues.

The point of all this is that life goes on. Taha needs to move on from SGP now. And…both you and Taha need to stop sniping at each other here. That has to stop and it has to stop now.

The one thing you both agree on is your support of Sarah Palin. Everything here should proceed on that basis.

The irony of the media attacking her is that she becomes more popular the more they attack her. No matter what people think of Sarah’s political future as a Presidential contender, and there are varied opinions on that, her popularity as a person is extremely high among conservatives. Besides, the mainstream media doesn’t matter much anymore. Their relevance has plummeted.