Posted on 09/10/2008 9:02:19 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Apparently the media wants to get even for the Swift-Boaters successful torpedoing of John Kerry in 2004 because they are by the dozens every day promulgating lies about the career and life of Governor Sarah Palin. I recently posted a piece on the lies, exaggerations and misbegotten assumptions of a Baltimore Sun columnist and it got me to thinking to try and gather one thread rebutting the media’s ever evolving negative memes against this strong woman. From unproven claims of infidelity, to claims she is a book banner and a negligent Mother, the media have been smearing this woman daily since she stepped out onto the national stage. One recent Politico attack on Palin was made up solely of the claim that she was once mean to someone… yes, Politico actually was trying to say that their report was serious.
In any case, I’d like to present and knock down some of the swift-skirt attacks the media is launching. So, in no particular order…
Lie- Palin Slashed spending for teen moms from $5 million dollars to $3.9 million in the Alaska state budget.
Truth- Palin actually increased by three-fold the budget for the Covenant House teen pregnancy programs. What she “cut” was the Covenant House’s request for $5 million! Palin’s $3.9 million was still a massive increase from the previous budget.
Lie- Palin belonged to the Alaska Independence Party, a group that wants Alaska to secede from the United States.
Truth- The Governor’s political registration shows that she has been a Republican since 1982 and she has never been a member of the AIP, though he husband has in the past.
Lie- Palin wants Creationism taught in school alongside of the Theory of Evolution.
Truth- Palin has spoken in favor of open discussion in the classroom of the two competing ideas, but has never spoken for, advocated for, or tried to make a policy that would make Alaska’s schools add creationism to their curriculum. Palin quote: “I don’t think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
Lie- Palin was so mired in controversy as a mayor that she was almost recalled while mayor of Wasilla.
Truth- Only a small number of Wasilla residents supported the recall effort and the idea died stillborn.
Lie- Palin cheated on her husband with her husband’s former business partner. This man had his divorce papers sealed to hide Palin’s affair.
Truth- Turns out it is untrue and the reason the man wanted his divorce papers sealed is to prevent the media from intruding into his life and the life of his young son.
Lie- Palin faked her recent pregnancy to cover for an out-of-wedlock birth of her teenaged daughter.
Truth- Many eyewitnesses and photos easily debunk this story. And even if you didn’t believe that, the fact that Palin’s daughter is pregnant NOW makes it physically impossible that she could have had a baby earlier in the year.
Lie- Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan when he ran for president in 1999.
Truth- Palin actually supported Steve Forbes in 1999 and was the co-chair on his Alaska campaign.
Lie- Palin is hiding her real religion from the public. She claims to be “just” a Christian, but is really a Pentecostal.
Truth- Palin left the Pentecostal Church she belonged to in Alaska 6 years ago.
Lie- Palin wanted a long, long list of books to be banned in the Wassilla library.
Truth- Palin did ask the library about what the process might be to ban a book, but the long list of books being circulated to “prove” she wanted books banned is really a list of all the books that have been banned at one time or another over the last 100 years. In fact, as far as the Harry Potter Books on that list goes, some of them came out after Palin left the office of Mayor of Wasilla.
Lie- Palin is lying when she says she sold the state’s jet plane on ebay.
Truth- Palin never said she sold the jet on ebay. She says she put it up to sell on ebay. And she did. But it didn’t sell there. The state sold it in a private sale to Larry Reynolds.
These are just some of the lies that the media are trying to sell us to swift-skit Sarah Palin. They cannot stand to see a strong woman like Sarah that actually got to the top by her own efforts… as opposed to some female Senators who got where she is because her philandering, but powerful husband paved the way for her.
There are surely others I’ve missed, I know, and if you readers have some, post them and I’ll add them here. (Give supporting links if you can)
The Lies Against Sarah are piling up.
Now, they are saying that as Gov. Palin kept the 300 million dollars that was given to her state by Congress for the Bridge to Nowhere.
Glad you are doing this. Hopefully you’ll keep it up as it gives me a central place to go for answers to slurs. Thanks.
I don’t like the term either.
Besides, what the media is really doing is more akin to rape.
Rape of a person’s name and character.
I think I’ll start using that.
“The media’s rape of Sarah Palin.”
Uhm...she did keep the money.
The volume of crap that is being dumped onto the scene by the garbage collectors of the Left, and the Leftist MSM should be construed by us all as proof that the Left is fearful of these two “Mavericks”, McCain and Palin should they succeed in their campaign for the Presidency/Vice Presidency.
The Left has incrementally built a government within our government. Bureaucracies are laden with Leftist sycophants. They fear the loss of POWER they have achieved over the many years. It would only take a few actions of a Conservative Congress with a Conservative President with the desire to get the job done to overcome.
The fear of becoming irrelevant is what is driving this feeding frenzy of the Left’s against Sarah Palin. They don’t fear John McCain, they fear the team.
Lets be a little more precise here.
She kept the money for the State of Alaska, she didn't personally keep the $300 million.
You've just got the attention of every straight male in the blogosphere.
Cheers!
More precisely, there was a ton of money allocated by Congress for Alaska. Within that total there were a number of items “earmarked” for particular purposes, including the BTNW. She got the BTNW canceled, and spent the money that would have otherwise gone to it on other more worthy projects.
Any truth about a liberal is a lie, and any lie about a conservative is a truth.
I don’t like it either. The Swift boaters told the truth by first person testimony of people in the same type of unit as Kerry at the same time in Vietnam. The anti Palin slugs are bloggers and reporters with a political motivation only.
Let’s be even more precise.
She kept the money that was given to the State during Murkowski’s term, and was allocated by the Congress in session before she was even governor.
It was actually the previous year’s Federal and State budgets that had the money exchange, not her first year.
I’ll chime in in agreement, it’s the wrong description. What they are trying to do to her is Bork her. That is telling lies to scare others so her true story is ignored. It worked with Robert Bork and perfected with others, such as John Bolton.
One reason why the national leadership of the Democrat party is utterly corrupt.
and her family. what did they do to the left and the media to deserve all this?
It is different from the Clintons in that they presented a more coherent attack. I am hoping the frantic nature of the attacks on Palin will be seen as the panic it is.
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