Sliming Palin

Its obvious the fact checking was done by a republican...of course none of these claims are true...these aren't the droids you are looking for....its the old "Jedi" mind trick....Very Sad...Very Sad Indeed...JC

Notice how Palin increased funding for special needs children only AFTER she knew she was carrying a Downs Syndrome baby. Then she tripled spending. But BEFORE she was pregnant, she cut spending. Sadly, republicans don't get it until it happens to them.

All I want to say is that before you publish a NEW article you should do your research first. Just yesterday, you, News Week, printed the exact opposite of all these statements. And many other places reported many of the same at about day two after the announcement of her as VP. Is it not a fact that she is so far right she's scary? Is it now not a fact that her husband was a member of the Alaskan Independant Party for 8 years? Strange how all of these facts are now fiction. Honestly, it sounds to me like a buy out - just another scandal. You can't have it both ways. Either half of the press in American really isn't doing their job by getting information first (again, including News Week) or it was/is true and some how we are just going to 'make it all go away'. Also, when you talk about Sara Palin's spending, why are we comparing it to her predecessor? What he did or did not do isn't relevant to HER spending, it is amazing how the facts cannot be printed for what they are. Let's make her 'look better' by comparing her to someone eles. So he ripped off the state and she did to, but he is not the issue here, is he? Another thing, I am so tired of her tramping around carrying her down syndrome baby to make her look like some type of hero mom. There are plenty of people in this world that choose to keep children with many more problems than that child will ever have and we are not praising them in our media! She is using that kid to her advantage as a ploy of 'look at me and how wonderful I am' - I don't buy it.

I hope the media is paying attention. I'm sick of seeing the MSM trotting out lie after lie about Gov. Plain even after they have been thoroughly debunked.

Tennismom is her graduation degree a fact? I never see anything listed except that she attended the University of Idaho college for a time. i used to live in Alaska and college costs are next to nothing in comparison ,and people usually attended the OUTSIDE for degrees not offered in Alaska.

Thanks for clearing all that up. She wore a Buchanan button as a courtesy like I would wear a David Duke or Slobodan Milosevic button if one of them came to visit me.
I suppose this one about her getting paid by the state just to live and eat at home is just a rumor too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088.html

It is interesting that FactCheck mentioned several items in Ms Kilkenny's note that they debunked. However, they did not even mention the several issue-related items in Ms Kilkenny's email (taking Wasilla from in the black to heavily in debt, supporting the "Bridge to Nowhere" before it was convenient and keeping the money Congress gave Alaska for the bridge, and others). Does FactCheck normally pass over mentioning those things that they analyze and find are true?

Watching what has happened to Senators Obama and Clinton on the internet rumor-mongering (the whole "secret Muslim Terrorist" idiocy mentioned by Huberc being a prime example) I fully understand the need to shine light on the wilder claims out there. But focusing only on those rumors while ignoring the substantive issues (like running one's town into debt or lying about one's position on things like the "Bridge to Nowhere") is to support the RNC narrative that any questioning of Gov Palin is inherently a plot to discredit a Crusading Reformer. Gov Palin is applying to be VP of the US behind a 72 year old man with a history of cancer with a father and grandfather who died of sudden heart attacks at ages younger than 72. It is NOT wrong to challenge her statements with substantive critiques, and the campaign's refusal to let that happen does a disservice both to Gov Palin and the American people. "Country First"--unless it interferes with the RNC campaign.

travvler seems to be implying that Gov. Palin is psychic -- because it is one thing to address a long-ago published book that is out of print but quite a different matter to know well in advance the title of a book that has yet to be WRITTEN! But let's not let simple things like FACTS get in the way of our bigotry. On another note, NOW has argued that Gov. Palin is actually a MAN, which if true would make her the first man to have borne five children ... a feat which would of course make her a SUPERMAN! Of course, no Obama supporter even cringed when Jimmy Carter called him a "black boy" -- and the Klansman Harry Byrd still robs us blind from his Senate seat long after talking publicly in recent years about "white ***" ... I do feel sad for those who cannot see the truth right in front of their own eyes ... because they dare not learn the truth.

travvler seems to be implying that Gov. Palin is psychic -- because it is one thing to address a long-ago published book that is out of print but quite a different matter to know well in advance the title of a book that has yet to be WRITTEN! But let's not let simple things like FACTS get in the way of our bigotry. On another note, NOW has argued that Gov. Palin is actually a MAN, which if true would make her the first man to have borne five children ... a feat which would of course make her a SUPERMAN! Of course, no Obama supporter even cringed when Jimmy Carter called him a "black boy" -- and the Klansman Harry Byrd still robs us blind from his Senate seat long after talking publicly in recent years about "white ***" ... I do feel sad for those who cannot see the truth right in front of their own eyes ... because they dare not learn the truth.

The spin and smears are dizzying. A friend of mine's church secretary sent out emails claiming Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. What is going on in America today? I'm afraid at the end of the day, Karl Rove will win the spin, and the American people will have another 4 years of failed policies. Its interesting to watch us tear ouselves apart. We will be our own undooing. A world with China as the only super power will interesting.......