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FACT CHECK: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts - Yahoo! News
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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 travel records indicate 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) overlooking New York City's Central Park for a five-hour women's leadership conference in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000. Event organizers said Palin asked if she could bring her daughter. The governor billed her state more than $20,000 for her children's travel, including to events where they had not been invited, and in some cases later amended expense reports to specify that they had been on official business.
ARE YOU ****ING ****TING ME? THIS IS 'GOING ROGUE' ON FACTS?
Someone give the AP a ****ing thesaurus for christ's sake.
Pay attention to the bolded words above, ignored by the AP.
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PALIN: Boasts that she ran her campaign for governor on small donations, mostly from first-time givers, and turned back large checks from big donors if her campaign perceived a conflict of interest.
THE FACTS: Of the roughly $1.3 million she raised for her primary and general election campaigns for governor, more than half came from people and political action committees giving at least $500, according to an AP analysis of her campaign finance reports. The maximum that individual donors could give was $1,000; $2,000 for a PAC.
Are you ****ing ****ting me?
This isn't 'going rogue on facts' this is being honest, again.
WTF is wrong with the AP? Were they being paid by their liberal overlords to find something, ANYTHING, that was a lie?
500 bucks is not what I consider LARGE CHECKS when it comes to campaign contributions.
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PALIN: Rails against taxpayer-financed bailouts, which she attributes to Obama. She recounts telling daughter Bristol that to succeed in business, "you'll have to be brave enough to fail."
THE FACTS: Palin is blurring the lines between Obama's stimulus plan — a $787 billion package of tax cuts, state aid, social programs and government contracts — and the federal bailout that Republican presidential candidate John McCain voted for and President George W. Bush signed.
Palin's views on bailouts appeared to evolve as McCain's vice presidential running mate. In September 2008, she said "taxpayers cannot be looked to as the bailout, as the solution, to the problems on Wall Street." A week later, she said "ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy."
During the vice presidential debate in October, Palin praised McCain for being "instrumental in bringing folks together" to pass the $700 billion bailout. After that, she said "it is a time of crisis and government did have to step in."
Its nice to know that they don't give us much details to what Palin really said, but the explanation goes on 3 paragraphs later. Also, if all else fails, throw a bunch of one liner quotes followed by your own paraphrasing of
what she meant.
Its also interesting for them to try to say that she is 'going rogue' on facts by bringing up what she told her daughter about being successful in business. Would you consider any of the companies that had to be bailed out successful? I wouldn't....
Off of a one liner "from Palin" the explanation goes too deep without letting us know exactly what they are saying she was lying about, so no score for the AP here either without more detail as to what Palin's book says.
Palin 3, AP 0.
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PALIN: Says Ronald Reagan faced an even worse recession than the one that appears to be ending now, and "showed us how to get out of one. If you want real job growth, cut capital gains taxes and slay the death tax once and for all."
THE FACTS: The estate tax, which some call the death tax, was not repealed under Reagan and capital gains taxes are lower now than when Reagan was president.
Economists overwhelmingly say the current recession is far worse. The recession Reagan faced lasted for 16 months; this one is in its 23rd month. The recession of the early 1980s did not have a financial meltdown. Unemployment peaked at 10.8 percent, worse than the October 2009 high of 10.2 percent, but the jobless rate is still expected to climb.
A. What economists say about the 'current recession' is moot because the situation as it stood WHEN SHE WROTE THIS is more relevant than to NOW.
B. Can you seriously hold what is to be EXPECTED (aka hasn't even happened yet) against her in a book that she wrote months/year ago? Give me a ****ing break.
C. I didn't see a statement of hers saying that Reagan slayed the death tax. She listed it as a part of how to get out of one, but I don't see her saying that Reagan actually slayed it.
Palin 4 AP 0
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PALIN: She says her team overseeing the development of a natural gas pipeline set up an open, competitive bidding process that allowed any company to compete for the right to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48.
THE FACTS: Palin characterized the pipeline deal the same way before an AP investigation found her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies and ultimately benefited a company with ties to her administration, TransCanada Corp. Despite promises and legal guidance not to talk directly with potential bidders during the process, Palin had meetings or phone calls with nearly every major candidate, including TransCanada.
Hmm... no explanation as to WHY the 'terms were crafted in a way that favored blah blah'? Then no dice on that one either AP. No explanation as to what those terms are? Are we supposed to just take the AP's word for it? I don't think so.
No explanation of what the ties TransCanada Corp had with her administration? No dice AP, no Dice. Im not going to just believe everything you say...
You say she had meetings with
every major candidate? Sounds open and competitive to me....
Palin 5 AP 0