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Fact-Check This (About Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue)
Power Line ^ | November 13, 2009 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 11/14/2009 4:41:23 AM PST by RobinMasters

The Associated Press got an advance copy of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, and assigned eleven reporters, apparently, to try to find errors in it. The eleven collaborated on an article titled "FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts." In fact, though, the AP's catalogue of alleged errors--six in total--is thin at best.

The AP starts with this one:

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.

THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) for a five-hour women's leadership conference in New York in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000.

This is frankly pathetic. Palin says she didn't "often" stay at high-end hotels, and the AP counters by saying she did, once. Yes, that's why she said "not often" rather than "never." What is indisputable is that Palin sold the Governor's private jet and flew commercial, thereby saving the taxpayers a large amount of money and qualifying her as a frugal traveler.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: goingrogue; romney; romney4obama; romneyantipalin; romneyantiusa; sarahpalin
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1 posted on 11/14/2009 4:41:24 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping.


2 posted on 11/14/2009 4:41:43 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters
Yeah... I’m sure they were just as thorough with the Clinton books.
3 posted on 11/14/2009 4:45:09 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: RobinMasters

Run, Sarah, Run! Run right over these mealy-mouthed leftists.


4 posted on 11/14/2009 4:45:43 AM PST by IbJensen (America being militarily and economically strong isn't enough: We must be morally strong!)
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To: RobinMasters

Pathetic. Meantime, they give a pass to all the liars running the country.


6 posted on 11/14/2009 4:49:50 AM PST by samsmom
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To: RobinMasters

If only they would apply 1/10th the scrutiny they do to Sarah to Obama/Frank/Dodd/Emmanuel, etc., ...keep dreaming


7 posted on 11/14/2009 4:51:49 AM PST by SueRae
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To: samsmom

When I read the article yesterday, I couldn’t believe how snarky it was.........they are really showing their true colors to everyone


8 posted on 11/14/2009 4:53:00 AM PST by estrogen (time to fight)
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To: RobinMasters

The left is terrified.


9 posted on 11/14/2009 4:53:25 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: RobinMasters
AP = Always Propaganda
10 posted on 11/14/2009 4:54:02 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: RobinMasters
five nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel ...With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000.

Uh, 707*5=3536. So, the bill, "including airfare" to Alaska was less than the room alone.

11 posted on 11/14/2009 4:55:59 AM PST by garyb
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To: RobinMasters

Its not like she played more rounds of Golf in 8 months than her predecessor playe in 8 years. Oppps, that is that current guy.


12 posted on 11/14/2009 4:56:11 AM PST by KC Burke (...but He has made the trains run on time.)
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To: sauropod

mark


13 posted on 11/14/2009 4:58:05 AM PST by sauropod (People who do things are people that get things done.)
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To: RobinMasters

Frugality in Al Gores life is a Gulfstream 5 in lieu of a Concord .


14 posted on 11/14/2009 4:58:38 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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To: KC Burke
New tagline.
15 posted on 11/14/2009 4:59:51 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: RobinMasters

I got news for you: in New York, EVERYTHING is sky-high. I’ve spent several conferences there, and NOT in “robe and slippers” hotels, and they easily come to $500-700 a night. At one hotel where we interviewed people, a simple cart of coffee, Cokes, and tea with place settings for seven was $300!! COFFEE!


16 posted on 11/14/2009 5:00:10 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: RobinMasters
We all know the MSM is going to try and destroy Palin. Only people who are mindless and have no regard for true objectivity will care.

I wouldn't be too concered about this because the MSM credibility is not what it use to be.

We have to fight them, point out their deceptions and move on...

17 posted on 11/14/2009 5:03:48 AM PST by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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To: RobinMasters
I can only imagine what they'd find if they ever decided to fact check Joe 'Plugs' Biden.
18 posted on 11/14/2009 5:03:55 AM PST by IoCaster ("No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: RobinMasters
With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000.

The White House is refusing to tell how much this little excursion with his wife cost the American people. Considering that last months joyride and Air Force One photo-op over the Statue of Liberty and Ground Zero cost us about $250,000 (or more), we can safely assume that this trip would cost at least that.

When Fearless Leader and his fugly wife go off on their little 'data nights' the AP, and all the rest of the fawning media, fall all over themselves to cover this touching and beautiful event.

19 posted on 11/14/2009 5:05:58 AM PST by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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To: RobinMasters

If that is the best AP can do with their team of experts, it looks like one of the most accurate books ever.


20 posted on 11/14/2009 5:07:33 AM PST by Always Right
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