AP INVESTIGATION: Palin Children Traveled On State (AP Hit Piece)

Newspeak ^ | 10/21/08 | Brett J. Blackledge, Adam Goldman, & Matt Apuzzo

[steve-b]

Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.

The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three daughters to join Palin to watch their father in a snowmobile race, and a trip to New York, where the governor attended a five-hour conference and stayed with 17-year-old Bristol for five days and four nights in a luxury hotel.

In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls....

[omega4179]

if it was for a gay partner to travel it would be perfectly acceptable.

[newnhdad]

I'm guessing that the garbage can scrapping in Alaska didn't go so well if they have to report this, AGAIN.. Now they can dedicate their resources to finding Obama’s drug connection, the guy that sold him cut-rate real estate, why he lies about Ayers and his payoff to ACORN.
Next up, revelations that McCain was actually in the company of commies during the Vietnam war. They track down the commies in Vietnam and sit them down for an interview.

[an amused spectator]

Brett J. Blackledge, Adam Goldman, & Matt Apuzzo Associated Press "writers"

Three more on the list of the Ossociated Press, Fall 2008.

My God! This campaign season is like The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot!

[peeps36]

AP stands for Anti-Palin. This rotten news organization has been attacking Palin and sucking up to Obama from day one. I really hope the American people punish the media for their unfair and one sided coverage of this election. They are the disgusting propaganda arm for all liberal organizations.

[an amused spectator]

Why is it that when McCain and Palin drew 20,000+ to Fairfax County, VA rally the Washington Post responded with an eleven paragraph article - EIGHT PARAGRAPHS OF WHICH DEALT WITH THE 30 ASSORTED KOOKS, BUSSED IN UNION MEMBERS AND OLD DECREPITS WHO WERE PROTESTING?

Can you point to a FR link or give me the date when the WP article ran? I'm making a list, and checking it twice.

I don't want the good little girls and boys of the Post to go without their nice lump of coal this Christmas... ;-)

[Califreak]

Wait a minute!

Aren’t they all saying our side is getting desperate?

And they bring up this irrelevant nonsense?

I believe it’s the other way around.

All I could think of when I heard that was the staggering amount of money she must have saved by getting rid of the jet.

To spin this into some kind of scandal reveals the utterly naked desperation of the lying libs.

[Califreak]

I just read that a jet costs about $22,000 per hour.

[Trajan88]

Re: "$22,000 per hour."

Damn that's a lot of coin... with that much Trajan88 could buy a Rolex Daytona Cosmograph... after just one hour.

I don't have a Cosmograph... but being that I'm a simple man... I can dream ;-)

[Califreak]

Libs must be desperate to try & whip people into a frenzy over all these non-issues.

[kjo]

Actually, I think it started when the MSM took Howard Dean out in the spring of ‘04. If you remember the coverage, the media was all for him until he stated saying some really stupid things...then there was the “scream”.

The MSM played it for all it was worth. To this day Joe Trippi, Dean’s campaign chief can’t believe that they turned against his candidate on a dime...in unison, for pete’s sake...like they all take their orders from central command...sad but true.