http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/274003.php
If you read that link you'll find a v..e..r..y interesting piece of information. The state of Illinois happens to have just the type of legislation on its books that the tiny, tiny town of Wasilla is accused of having.
Of course this smear story has spread far and wide. The Daily Telegraph displayed it prominently on its web page. I wrote to the editor and asked him to show the link above to his correspondent, and then publish an excuse to the readers and to Governor Palin. Of course nothing has happened but this:
John McCain was 'good kisser' says former Brazilian lover
Not much of a scandal, when you read the story - a young sailor, pilot on a visit to Rio - what do they expect? And McCain has written about it in his memoirs. But what about this last sentence:
The presidential candidate has sometimes struggled to convince social conservatives that he has the religious morals needed to lead Americans.
No bias there, absolutely not, no siree!
This is yet another calculated, astroturfed SMEAR campaign perpetrated by Obama supporters...the lone source for the smear being a single line in the Frontiersman back in 2000 by a reporter who said Wasilla charged for rape kits without offering ANY corroborating evidence or quotes backing up this assertion. That reporter, Jo C. Goode, hasn’t written a single word since then about victims of rape in Wasilla being charged for rape kits. I’d LOVE for someone to actually trackdown Ms. Goode and ask her to clarify some of the info that’s missing from that 2000 article, like whether or not the city of Wasilla ever actually charged ANYONE, ever, for a rape kit.
There’s great info about the rape kit smear on the Confederate Yankee’s blog; if any FReepers would like to post their feelings on the blog of one of the early instigators of this smear (she claims to have been the first to “break” the rape kit non-story, and is giddy with the fact that it was picked up by CNN), that would be the Op Edna blog.
Feel free to let her know how you feel.
It sounds fake on the face of it.
But the propagandists had a field day with it.
This is the kind of people we are up against.
I tuned in to CNN briefly this afternoon, they were doing a story on the rape kit controversy. Very biased. You would think Palin was personally responsible not only for the rape kit charges to the victim, but also the higher incidence of rape in Alaska.
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I’m six paragraphs into this, but still can’t figure out what the controversy is....hows about some context?
I take it Dems are mad about “rape kits” and Wasilla. There isn’t even a hospital in Wasilla, is there? What’s the controversy, was Palin supposed to hand them out at City Hall or what?
[WIKIPEDIA]: "Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in 2002, he ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2004 and again for governor in 2006."
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown required women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her police chief fought to keep as late as 2000.Unfortunately, the article in the OP does dick all to offset that embarassment.
Former state Rep. Eric Croft, a Democrat, sponsored a state law requiring cities to provide the examinations free of charge to victims. He said the only ongoing resistance he met was from Wasilla, where Palin was mayor from 1996 to 2002.