Posted on 09/04/2008 9:21:07 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I thought Palin's speech was quite good: well-written, well delivered. And, as I said earlier, I think she's a genuinely engaging person, and comes across very well. There were just a couple of problems. One, which I have seen people notice, but which I suspect won't be a big deal for a lot of voters, is that it had very little substance. The other, which the commenters I saw on TV for some reason neglected to mention, was that she told a lot of lies. A few that stood out for me, or that I spotted in my quick run-through of some blogs:
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
i guess it would have been kind of hard to fact check obama or bidens speeches considering they said things like “we are going to cut taxes for 95% of americans, we are going to make a college education affordabl....blah, blah, blah”
actually, come to think of it. It wouldn’t be too hard to fact check since the speech was a week ago. I don’t recall any such fact check. Katie Couric was quick to tell her audience that there would be some fact checking done on the Palin speech.
SeeBS News complaining about someone telling lies?
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SERIOUSLY??
In an ELECTION year?
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Ambassador John Bolton joins Lars at the RNC (talks about Palin)
Tuesday, Sep 02, 2008
http://www.larslarson.com/pg/jsp/charts/streamingAudioMaster.jsp?dispid=362&size=10&headerDe
John Bolton knows Palin. He has every confidence in her.
Bolton said [paraphrasing]...they talked about missle defense, etc. and she was very knowledgeable and she is a ‘quick study’. He was very impressed.
“Sarah Palin might have changed her mind on this one recently. However, a comment here notes that Palin actually slashed funding for schools for special needs kids by 62%. Budgets: FY 2007 (pre-Palin), 2008, 2009 (all pdfs).”
If I’m reading the PDFs correctly, the schools still got more money than the year before. This sounds like another liberal misconception that cutting an INCREASE is cutting funding.
/bkmark
DUmmyland & KOSworld !
Are you saying that some partisan tart would LIE at CBS???
First things first. All politicians lie. Does not matter if they have an R or a D behind their name. Some lie more than others...and have bigger lies.
Lawyers are masters of lying and last time I looked Palin was not a lawyer.
Oh, and the energy lie? Obama has a nebulous plan of unproven approaches. Drilling for more oil now is a proven approach.
So the Dems are now calling differences of opinions lies. Typical.
just watched CNN’s Soledad O’Brien sandbag former White House Communications Director Nicole Wallace by asking her how Sarah Palin can claim to be a defender of special needs children when she cut the budget for that Alaska office by 62 percent. Wallace wasn’t familiar with the charge — which isn’t surprising, since it’s only being made on DailyKos and another liberal site. (Tip for Ms. O’Brien: DailyKos is not a reliable news site.)
This charge is based on looking at the budget for Alaska’s Special Education Service Agency for 2007-2009. In fact, the December 2006 budget document that they cite would have been prepared by the outgoing administration — that of Republican Frank Murkowski, whom Palin defeated.
What’s gone unmentioned is that the Palin signed into law a dramatic reform of the state’s education financing system that equalizes aid to rural and urban districts, while significantly increasing funding for special needs students. From the publication Education Week:
Gov. Sarah Palin and state lawmakers have gone ahead with an overhaul of Alaska’s school funding system that supporters predict will provide much-needed financial help to rural schools and those serving students with disabilities.
The plan, enacted in the recently concluded session of the legislature, is based on recommendations issued by a legislative task force last year. It will phase in a greater flow of money to districts outside of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, over the next five years.
Advocates for rural and remote schools have lobbied for years for more funding, in particular noting the higher fuel, transportation, and other costs associated with providing education in communities scattered across the vast state.
A second part of the measure raises spending for students with special needs to $73,840 in fiscal 2011, from the current $26,900 per student in fiscal 2008, according to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (emphasis added).
So the Netroots and CNN allege that Palin cut special needs funding by 62 percent, by crediting her with the budget proposed by a political opponent. And the truth is that rather than a 62 percent cut, she’s actually increasing special needs funding by 175 percent.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/newest_palin_smear_she_cut_spe.asp
So, is SeeBS dedicating an entire wing of “fact-checkers” to the Hussein/Plagerist campaign...or just the “fact-checker” for Dan Rather?
Tell your doofus liberal friend to do some “fact checking” on BO and Bill Ayers first. Then tell him to find out how BO hired lawyers to challenge the petitions of his opponents in Chicago to get them thrown off the ticket. Then ask him EXACTLY WHAT has BO accomplished, except to have written TWO memoirs about, what else, HIMSELF!
“This sounds like another liberal misconception that cutting an INCREASE is cutting funding.”
NOT a “misconception” IMO as they do it all the time. It’s a standard tactic (SOP) the Left/Dems use to misinform the masses about their opposition.
You are, and it is, although that last isn't a 'misconception", it is a deliberate, out and out lie...
the infowarrior
Oh that’s right. Remember all the “fact checking” that happened after Obama’s speech? Remember? Anyone??
You are correct, it is the old liberal ploy of saying someone "cut" spending when they actually cut down the an increase to a smaller amount. Palin cut down an increase in funding but raised spending on special needs children by about double the old amount. I don't have the exact figures handy but they are floating around the internet somewhere. Just another liberal bunch of BS trying to tear down a great candidate, but they will have a hard time after that speech last night. Don't worry, Palin and McCain will counter all these lies and slanders.
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