Palin bans reporters from meetings with leaders

[Thomas Jackson]

Good, I would have done the same thing after the smear campaign that the driveby media engaged in.

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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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[Thomas Jackson]

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The NYT had the AIP lie as a front page story. They later buried a retraction on their blog.

Every media outlet out there (including the NYT) has repeated the "task from God" lie.

The Washington Monthly was the source of the lie about special needs funding.

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The NYT flat out lied in the AIP story. No ifs, ands or buts.

The "task from God" comment is another flat out lie. A purposeful and blatant lie.

Palin never banned any books. No books were banned from the library. Unlike what the media has claimed.

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I can't recall any blatant front page lies about Obama in the NYT. I can't recall any organized CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS/MSNBC/NYT/LA TIMES/WASHINGTON POST smear campaign against Obama either.