[Raycpa]

What a fascinating display of the power of the headline

Another paper takes the same story,titles it:

Alaska Law Backs Palin Expenses

and it with the headline change, the same story becomes the rebuttal for the charges.

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/LOCAL08/809090354/1044/LOCAL08

[Crazieman]

No bias here...

[gondramB]

>>ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a “per diem” allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.<<

How far does she live from the capital - that might include traveling each day.

[bahblahbah]

She spent a lot less than her predicessors. Everything will be picked apart and framed against her. It’s so insane what the media are up to.

[samtheman]

I’ve personally learned from friends in Alaska that Palin also PERSONALLY tore off some of those DO NOT REMOVE mattress tags.

The beast!

[Snurple]

YAWN

[just me]

So who pays for the 5 suv’s that take obama’s kids to school?

[IamConservative]

Since when has a politician ever spent a dime of their own money? Most states have Governors mansions and full time staff to cook for and wipe his/her honor. It’s really up to Alaska to determine how pampered the Governor will be. At 80% approval, it seems the residents are happy to pay for a few perks.

[Raycpa]

Deep in the bowels of the hit piece is a fragment of truth that must of missed the editors scissors:

Gov. Palin has spent far less on her personal travel than her predecessor: $93,000 on airfare in 2007, compared with $463,000 spent the year before by her predecessor, Frank Murkowski. He traveled often in an executive jet that Palin called an extravagance during her campaign. She sold it after she was sworn into office.

[Darkwolf377]

OK, I read the headline and thought "Damn, I knew she was too good to be true," then read the article, and now I can't figure out something: What, exactly, is the story here? That the governor uses the fund she's entitled to?

Tomorrow it will be revealed that while doing her job as governor she actually used STATE-OWNED computers and stationary!

[incredulous joe]

Let me guess. First page, above the fold.

We have the Post to thank for Jim Webb.

They are scum.

[Perdogg]

ombudsman@washpost.com or by phone at 202-334-7582

[musicman]

[Terabitten]

which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau,

And there the story ends.

[popdonnelly]

The MSM just can’t help themselves, can they? The only way to deal with them is to hit back.

[Issaquahking]

Notice that they don't talk bout the fact that she laid off the Gov's chef, and no limo (drives herself)? Lot's of reason for a limo lib to hate her! Bring it on!

They forgot that she sold a 2.7 million dollar jet on EBay. So let's see, she cost me dimes, and saved hundreds of millions? Oh ya, that woman has got to go...What a bunch of maroons!

[DrewsMum]

I just wonder what OBAMA AND BIDEN’S “expenses” were in the Senate....anyone know a link to find that info...?

[Iron Munro]

Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home

Palin Did Not Bill State For All Expenses She Is Entitled To

"Palin rarely sought reimbursement for meals while staying in Anchorage or Wasilla, the reports show."

"Leighow noted that under state policy, all of the governor's children are entitled to per diem expenses, even her infant son. "The first family declined the per diem [for] the children," Leighow said. "The amount that they had declined was $4,461, as of August 5."

[PGR88]

Obama Campaign to Washington Post: “Help us! Were Desperate!”

[Tennessean4Bush]

This is the biggest piece of horse manure they have? We are in, like Flynn.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Last Line on Page 1:

Palin rarely sought reimbursement for meals while staying in Anchorage or Wasilla, the reports show.

I can almost see a on-air MSNBC purse fight between a moonBat leftist headline writer and a journalist trying to maintain some form of respectability.