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Posted on 11/20/2009 11:45:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sarah Palin haters will stoop to just about anything to malign the woman they most fear – including lying.
That's what Huffington Puffington Post columnist Max Blumenthal did Sunday when he claimed the former vice presidential candidate cited an "urban legend" in a speech when she said the Treasury Department had moved the phrase "In God We Trust" from presidential coins.
Blumenthal and his pseudo-news organization characterized Palin's statement as a "rumor" that "most likely originated with a 2006 story on the far-right website WorldNetDaily."
Actually, it wasn't "a rumor." It was, what we call in the news business, a fact.
A year later, Congress, alerted to the plan by the original WND story, stopped the plan dead in its tracks, as WND also reported.
That doesn't constitute an "urban legend." That constitutes reporting that led to a policy change.
She took the nation by storm in 2008 and could be the best hope for the future of the GOP. Get Sarah Palin's best-seller, "Going Rogue: An American Life"
It doesn't change the fact that the U.S. Mint formulated a plan to do exactly what Sarah Palin said it had done. It just means that once the whistle was blown on a plan that would offend the sensibilities of about 90 percent of Americans, Congress acted in line with the will of the people.
Blumenthal suggests Palin was believing and spreading an urban legend. Instead, she was stating a fact.
"Palin did not hesitate to take up this 'controversy,' however false, since it conveniently pits a tyrannical, God-destroying, secular big government against humble God-fearing folk," Blumenthal writes. "In doing so, of course, she presented herself as this nation's leading defender of the faith."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Except for his own name, the HuffPoo article got nothing correct. Wow, that makes me question if he even got his own name correct.
They are scared to death of our Lady!
They are absolutely TERRIFIED of her, otherwise they would have left her alone a long time ago
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I have no idea what Palin said, but to say it is a "fact" that the Treasury "moved the phrase 'In God We Trust' from presidential coins" is not a fact. It is the other thing.
>> They are absolutely TERRIFIED of her, otherwise they would have left her alone a long time ago <<
Ask yourself, did they ever go after Dan Quayle or Jack Kemp with the ferocity that they have gone after Palin?
She is seen as a threat to their power and this means she is wearing a target on her back.
Huffpo is a total joke.
Yes, they are..I'm half way through "Going Rogue" and can see why the Rats and Rinos are afraid...She has a steal spine for sure. After seeing how she began the clean up of corruption in Alaska, I wish she would have turned down McCain and stayed in Alaska as the Govenor there until she became better known for the truly amazing politician she is. She's a truly unique person and I would love to see her as our President one day.
Both sources have it wrong - Palin stated that the Treasury was preparing to move the motto to the edge of the coin, not that they were going to remove it entirely. It was that plan to relocate the words ‘In God we trust’ to the edge of the coin which was squashed.
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