Posted on 11/14/2009 8:16:31 AM PST by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
In a few days Sarah Palins much-anticipated Going Rogue hits the stores. But this morning Ms. Palin is already meeting some criticism for allegedly false statements. Before the book is even released, a gaggle of Associated Pressyes, Associated Press!writers took it upon themselves to embark on a fact-checking mission:
FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.
Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition. ...
In Palins 400+ page memoir Calvin Woodward and his team of assistants found only a handful of questionable statements. This would hardly be a news story were the author of the book not the leftocracys the most hated and feared woman.
Now, in theory I have no problem with a news outlet parsing a popular new book and addressing misstatements, exaggerations, and falsehoods. If an author is gilting the lily, they should be called on it.
What I do have a problem with is the apparent enthusiasm with which a news source went after this book. Youd be hard pressed to find the mainstream media so ambitiously fact-check the publication of a liberal/Democrat public figure.
In 2003, Hillary Clintons Living History memoir came out. Taxpayer-funded NPR granted her no less than four interviews. In one of them, NPR did not fail to note that Hillary criticizes the Bush administration for a power grab on so many fronts which she calls an attempt to implement a very radical, right-wing agenda. (This
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