Posted on 11/13/2009 3:24:57 PM PST by TitansAFC
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.
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Oh yeah, none.
Among the "Facts" checked:
PALIN: Writes about a city councilman in Wasilla, Alaska, who owned a garbage truck company and tried to push through an ordinance requiring residents of new subdivisions to pay for trash removal instead of taking it to the dump for free — this to illustrate conflicts of interest she stood against as a public servant.
THE FACTS: As Wasilla mayor, Palin pressed for a special zoning exception so she could sell her family's $327,000 house, then did not keep a promise to remove a potential fire hazard on the property.
So now explain this to me: Wouldn't a "Fact Check" of this claim involve, oh I don't know, finding out if this city councilman in Wasilla, Alaska, who owned a garbage truck company, tried to push through an ordinance requiring residents of new subdivisions to pay for trash removal?
I see no indication that this fact was checked, only a bunch of talking points designed to make her look bad, which do NOT in ANY way belie her statement.
As Palin said in her facebook posting: buy the book and read it, compare with what AP and others have said, then make up your own mind.
In other words: “think”
To the Drive-by media, a fact is anything they say, and a non-fact is anything that they don’t like.
she really has the left afraid .
Now they must write books which resemble hers and they must now do fact checks.
Hey AP how about fact checking your messiah’s book and while you’re at it go and look at his past records art school and the B/C
Ask him why they are all put away for no one to see
Shouldn't even read anything those pukes publish until they purge themselves of Islamofascists.
>>PALIN: Writes about a city councilman in Wasilla, Alaska, who owned a garbage truck company and tried to push through an ordinance requiring residents of new subdivisions to pay for trash removal instead of taking it to the dump for free — this to illustrate conflicts of interest she stood against as a public servant.
THE FACTS: As Wasilla mayor, Palin pressed for a special zoning exception so she could sell her family’s $327,000 house, then did not keep a promise to remove a potential fire hazard on the property. <<
That is classic argumentum Red Herring. It also is used to argue against an opponent, making AP, in this article, her de-facto opponent, as opposed to a news reporting agency.
Oh she has the left afraid..they have Levi as their special correspondent now..everything Sarah says, they go through him..if that doesn’t show their fear I don’t know what does
Ass Press will also fact check the endless complete dishonesty of Obama and Pelosi.
Not.
In.
This.
Lifetime.
Hahahahahaha...everything after the but is sullshit...
agreed
you watch those attacks to step up even more
Did you read the last lines on that article ?
Maybe they could say that about bozo too
liberals do not think . that is why they have those bumper stickers.
Ask them about what the sticker is about and they have no clue , they just look really dumb at you
“THE FACTS: Palin is blurring the lines between Obama’s stimulus plan”
At this point I stopped reading. I always knew the AP was pro-DemonRat, being 50% owned by Arabs, but I didn’t think they would make their bias so apparent.
Using a phrase like “blurring the lines” is not the language of fact checkers, its the language of apologists.
Seems to me that if the AP has a prerelease copy of the book that is not authorized, they’re in violation of copyright laws. Shouldn’t Palin be suing them??
The AP will have to face the FACT that 0bama is imploding for all to see and they are going down with him. Palin will benefit most from the fact she was warning us about him and the fact the media is so closely tied to 0bama to this day. These people are sick and they are showing how ridiculous and laughable they are with these continued attempts to demonize Palin.
If only they would honestly scrutinize the news the way they seem to want to manipulate the story to serve their agendas. Just saw Carl Cameron on Fox for the first time in years, wow, what is wrong with him? He looks seriously ill.
This must be a first. Nobody scares the hell out of these people like Sarah does. I’ll take her word over that of the OMaoist media. Clearly their goal is to destroy her.
Hey AP, your Pelosicrats are going to lose, and your idiot in the White House is going down as the worst president in the history of America. He’s already there. Waste your time going after Sarah.
I don't want to believe this stuff, and I don't trust the "objective" source of it.But I haven't read the book yet, and it doesn't appear that the FReepers thus far responding have the goods on this stuff. Maybe we just ought to hold this discussion in abeyance until the dust clears a bit . . .
So you just posted an AP article in its entirety on FR. What could possibly go wrong?
- JP
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