Palin bans reporters from meetings with leaders

[J. J.]

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Media Myth (Bold face lie): "Palin said Iraq was a task from God." OH NOES!!!1111 SHEZ A CRUZADERZ@!121111

Fact: Palin actually said: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

Media Myth: Palin banned books!!! OH NOES1!1!!!1 SHEZ A BOOKZ BURNERZ!!!11!43123

Fact (From the Anchorage Daily News): "Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so. According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully support her and had to go. Emmons had been city librarian for seven years and was well liked. After a wave of public support for her, Palin relented and let Emmons keep her job. It all happened 12 years ago and the controversy long ago disappeared into musty files. Until this week. Under intense national scrutiny, the issue has returned to dog her. It has been mentioned in news stories in Time Magazine and The New York Times and is spreading like a virus through the blogosphere. The stories are all suggestive, but facts are hard to come by. Did Palin actually ban books at the Wasilla Public Library? …Were any books censored banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.    Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time."

Media Myth: "Palin was a member of the AIP." OH NOES!!11!!!! SHEZ A CONFEDERATEZ!!11!!!1

Fact: Palin was never a member of the AIP. She once recorded a polite video addressing their convention which emphasized POLITICAL COMPETITION, as in she was a member of a competing political party.

Media Myth: "Palin cut special needs funding." OH NOES11!!1!1 SHEZ HEARTLESS HIPOCRITZ!!!

Fact: Palin RAISED special needs funding 175%

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"Sweet Sarah Palin being attacked by those mean Democrats and their leftist lapdogs the liberal media."

[J. J.]

Is Palin going to be behind a cordon sanitaire from the give and take for the entire campaign? Is she not doing very well, in the pop quizzes the McCain campaign is giving her regarding the content of the briefing books she is supposed to be reading? Is the world beyond energy policy simply too confusing and complex for her? 

So many questions, so little time. Yep, you guessed it -  I'm not a Palin fan. I find her annoying.

It plays in brilliantly into the Republican strategy.

[J. J.]

It plays in brilliantly into the Republican strategy.

Which is?

You asked:

"Look at those mean Democrats and leftist lapdogs the liberal media attacking Sweet Sarah Palin.  Those Democrats hate women an motherhood."

It keeps the base rallied and might even help with some swing voters.

[J. J.]

It appears that you have a rather low opinion of the intelligence of the voters JJ.

No, of the Press, for falling for it.  They've played their parts to the hilt, especially MSNBC and the NYT.