Amanda Coyne II – End Game
What is Reporter Amanda Coyne’s ‘End Game’ Against Gov. Palin?
If you listen to Kaylene Johnson, the first biographer for Sarah Palin, you would learn that Governor Palin story is a modern-day David and Goliath, an unstoppable force in Alaskan politics, hockey mom and friend. If you listen to Amanda Coyne, an Alaska freelancer writer, blogger at Huffington Post, and an APU writing teacher who was supposed to be the first biographer, Governor Palin is nothing more than a puff piece without substance.
Two weeks before McCain tapped Governor Palin, Anchorage-based writers Amanda Coyne and her husband and editor at the Anchorage Daily News Tony Hopfinger launched the Alaska Dispatch website; an online news and opinion magazine which discusses Alaska stories that they feel went uncovered and Alaska voices that went unheard. But somewhere along the line, Amanda Coyne decided that she would, without masquerade, conveniently convert the Dispatch into a personal political platform to promote her and her husbands agenda. And, that agenda is to tarnish the reputation and image of Governor Sarah Palin.
Before Palin was selected as McCain's VP choice, Coyne was generally complimentary of Palin. Then in the heat of the campaign, she turned into a vicious partisan-hack, often spewing visceral hate against Palin. At that time, the Main Street Media-types then began to flock to Coyne supposedly because she was an 'Alaskan.' Yet she is not a native Alaskan, nor does she speak highly of Alaskan residents. She is a transplant from Iowa who moved to Alaska in 2002 and still finds time to flock to her beloved Santa Fe every winter.
Right after Palin spoke at the Republican convention; Coyne wrote a condescending article for Newsweek that disparaged Alaskans by starting the whole 'Wasilla-Hillbilly' nonsense. She then went on to make it her personal crusade to destroy Sarah Palin and anything affiliated with her. Ms Coyne went so far as to attempt to link a deranged nut case who threatened to kill the Governor of New York David Patterson to Palin's convention speech and she purposely mischaracterized Palin’s Pentecostal religious activities and affiliations.
The Alaska Dispatch is also the website who linked to Andrew Halcro's ‘scoop’ about SarahPAC being "behind Palin's stimulus decision." Many native Alaskans and outsiders who seek the truth have noticed that Halcro has many "sources" that never seem to have a name. Andrew Halcro is the former two-term Republican state representative who ran against Governor Palin, lost, and also seems to have an axe to grind against her. Halcro is also friends with both Amanda Coyne and her co-conspirator husband Tony Hopfinger.
Together, Coyne, Hopfinger and Halcro are part of a left-leaning group that is trying to destroy Sarah Palin and sources have speculated whether their marching orders have come all the way from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Is a deal like the pay-for-play similar to the Kim Elton arrangement eventually in the works? The contempt they have for Gov. Palin and those like her is undeniable.
Such disgust is also illustrated in Amanda Coyne’s Newsweek depiction of Gov. Palin’s Christian beliefs. Despite Sen. Barack Obama's long-time association with the theologically and politically liberal Trinity United Church of Christ, Amanda Coyne, jumping on the bandwagon of how the media portrays believers, set out to find something juicy about Governor Palin's house of worship, Wasilla Bible Church, in an attempt to make fun of her religion.
Yet, Sarah Palin is like the cross to these blood suckers, and at times, Palin’s opponents have sunk into self-righteous deceit. Ardently-biased Progressive writers such as Amanda Coyne like to perpetuate the idea that Palin is reverently unqualified and lacks substance to govern. She blends limited newsworthy essays with biased opinion commentary in an attempt to paint Palin in broad-brushed strokes of incompetence. Anything anti-Palin is fair game - even when her writings fall well short of any journalistic integrity.
Coyne’s motives are simple; vilify and destroy Sarah Palin at every chance for personal gain. A somewhat obscure writer prior to Palin’s journey on the national stage, Coyne is transparent in her advocacy to implicate by reference and innuendo. Her short shallow take on the truth of a story runs secondary to an impulse to defame as she manages to craft a story that leaves a sincere reader errantly misinformed. She is deliberate in her attempts to show distaste for anything Sarah Palin but often lacks the literary aptitude to inform the reader through any material substance. Coyne is part and parcel, a member of the left wing smear machine; a partisan, and an ideologue.
To this day , conspiracy theorist still ponder whether Amanda Coyne was ‘fired’ as the first biographer of Governor Palin, as reported by one blog and rumored among many, or whether she ignorantly discarded the chance to benefit as Kaylene Johnson has. We will leave that up to you to decide. One thing is certain; no one knows what turned Amanda Coyne against Governor Palin or what her end game is. But if she can personally profit from the Palin bashing journey that she is on, she sure looks willing to abandon any degree of credibility in her advocacy writings.
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.” - Abraham Lincoln