Palin says the media are prostituting themselves to gain access to Obama's campaign. Palin accuses media of 'prostituting'

Weighing in on the controversial “cancer ad,” Sarah Palin is accusing members of the press of “prostituting” themselves by failing to point out alleged collaboration between President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and a super PAC backing his reelection.

“Some of these reporters who know the truth about this situation because they were in the room, in the press conference, or teleconference room listening to this — I think you said it was back in May — and now they’re watching this ad play out from the super PAC, they know what happened, and I don’t know how they can sleep at night,” Palin said Thursday on Fox News’ “Hannity.”


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“They’re basically prostituting themselves for a job, for interview, for access to the Obama administration and the campaign. And they’re letting this go on, and it is illegal. It violates the PAC laws. What I would like to see happen is for just one reporter in the mainstream media who knows the truth about this to stand up and do the worthy and ethical thing and let Americansknow that there was collaboration and also that this is a far-fetched, despicable ad that misrepresents Governor Romney’s position.”

Palin, who was John McCain’s running mate in 2008, was referring to an ad from Priorities USA Action, which questionably links the decision by a Bain-owned steel company to lay off an Indiana worker to that man’s wife’s death from cancer years later. The Obama campaign initially claimed not to know the story of Joe Soptic’s story, even though he was featured on a campaign conference call in May and in a campaign television ad. The Obama team eventually acknowledged they knew who Soptic was.

Reporters apparently heard Palin’s plea before she made it. POLITICO, The Washington Post and The New York Times have all reported on Soptic’s ties to the Obama campaign. Fact checkers at CNN, the Post and PolitiFact have pointed out inaccuracies in the ad. Priorities co-founder Bill Burton has defended the ad’s accuracy.

Even though there’s no concrete evidence of coordination between Priorities and the Obama campaign, Palin said the president still deserves blame for campaign tactics she called “nauseating.”

“I hope his daughters never have to go through what he allows, and I believe, helps perpetuate, what other women go through,” she said. “He, the president, as the leader of these attackers, and these attackers try to invalidate and discredit somebody’s record and reputation and what they stand for. … I hope his family members don’t have to go through that. You don’t wish that on your worst enemy.

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“I think it’s disgusting,” she continued. “And at this point, you know, with all due respect to the office of the presidency, when I hear Barack Obama speak at this point, especially when he lectures about ethics and civility, it’s nauseating to me.”

Palin also said Obama should fire Stephanie Cutter and two spokesmen: Robert Gibbs and Jay Carney, all of whom Palin said “represent this agenda of deception.”