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Sarah Palin is being questioned on the facts in "Going Rogue." AP Photo Al Grillo
Increasingly the press is reporting that Sarah Palin's book is simply "Going Rogue" on the facts. First the Associate Press did a fact check on a copy of the book they received before the release. The fact check revealed what the AP called twelve false claims from Palin in her book. A McCain campaign staffer then released emails from Palin herself which contradicts Palin's narrative from the book concerning her Saturday Night Live Appearance.
Today numerous other organizations are doing their own fact checking and finding what they claim are distortions in the book. The Huffington Post has collected a large sampling of such stories the highlights of which can be read below.
CBS points uses McCain staff to contradict Palin's claim that she was yelled at by Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt over a prank phone call she received during the campaign. The staffers maintain that Palin was never yelled at by Schmidt and that he in fact took out his anger at the McCain staff surrounding Palin. The same CBS report also claims that Palin was not always a creationist as opposed to the claims in her book that she continually rejected evolution.
In the book Palin writes that the McCain staff were entirely responsible for the $150,000 worth of the clothing that was purchased for her during the campaign. The Boston Globe reports that Steve Schmidt calls that claim "total fiction" and other McCain staffers have backed up his claim. Meanwhile Palin has had no one from the campaign back up her version of events.
Palin writes in her book that the McCain campaign forced her to pay for the lawyers involved in vetting her as a candidate for Vice President. CNN reports that John McCain himself has contradicted that claim saying in fact the bill was for lawyers used to defend Palin in the "troopergate" controversy.
Despite all these reports the loyal Palin followers will still buy the book and support her. In the end Palin loyalists feel the media simply has an agenda against Palin and so no report is deemed credible or weighty enough to damage Palin's reputation in their minds.
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I wonder if Runners World will sue for using their cover photo!
"Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech Friday, declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."
Newsweek is not biased... Newsweek is not a news outlet.
Great article!
And to Blind Followers below- didn't John Lennon also get critizied for his God comment? How easy it is to take a statement out of context and put your Fox Noise scary spin on it.
Jonathan Alter writes for Newsweek – you know, that’s the guy that wrote – “The Defining Moment". A few million people might disagree with you that Newsweek does not cover news!
I'm as anti-Palin as they come, but all this attention being paid to her book is pretty ridiculous. 11 fact-checkers for the AP? Why on earth would they devote ANY factcheckers to it? Palin will never, ever, ever be the Republican nominee for President. Let her embarass herself on her own - giving her more of a spotlight says more about the press than it does about her.
Newsweek just lost whatever was left of their credibility!
Blind followers said: "Newsweek is not a news outlet."
But World Nut Daily is, right?
<sigh>
WAKE UP Palin cult followers! This woman is a genuine idiot.
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