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Tried to post this on the abcnews site comments section, using several bugmenot logins that appeared to have worked successfully, but kept getting errors each time I posted.

So I'll just post what I wrote below. If anyone wants to do me a favor and retry posting this over there, I'd appreciate it!

Uhh... did I miss something? I read the story carefully twice, and in spite of the fact the ABC writer implies twice that this travel authorization paper "contradicts" what Palin said, I see no contradiction at all. It was bait & switch -- he told them he was traveling to DC for one reason, but later admitted it was for another. So, Palin never "authorized" him to go to DC for the reasons that he eventually went there for, and that's obviously the sense in which she used the word "unauthorized" recently. But because there is this piece of paper "authorizing" travel for him to DC, ABC implies Palin has told an untruth? HARDLY!

What is it with these "journalists" (I use the term loosely) and their Palinophobia? They keep screaming "Fire" and then just churn out smoke. And more smoke. And more smoke. Sometimes smoke and mirrors. But no fire has yet shown up. What do they take us for? It's rather insulting, actually, for them to assume every one of us will just read the headline and a paragraph or two and yell "Ha! They caught her! Nailed her to the wall this time, they did, they did!"

What ABC seems to be saying to their audience, between the lines, is this: "OK, so if you do read our whole article through carefully, then yes, you will see it is all smoke and mirrors and hand-waving, and there's nothing really there of any importance to substantiate the smearing innuendo in the article's title. But we don't care, because you're not our target audience anyway. Our target audience is, in PT Barnum's immortal words, the 'Some People You Can Fool All Of The Time'. So don't waste your time reading this article carefully. It's not aimed at you, but rather at those who read only the title, or the title and first paragraph, or who try to make it past the first paragraph but get bogged down in all the boring details and give up while assuming there's some real meat in the rest of the article".

Another Shining Moment in American "Journalism"

I find it interesting that you can’t post. Reminds me of these media polls where the totals don’t ever change on our side.

Of course AOL commie news polls are always a hoot. Stuff like, “What ias your opinion of Hillary Clinton?” The choices are great, greater than great and the greatest human being ever born.

I also tried posting twice without success, even though I registered. Great response, hope you try again. Maybe they review the postings first?