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Never decided anything
Rising Hegemon — ... ordered the state guard to do anything. But what about disaster stuff within the State, surely she's made some decisions there? Did Palin directly approve each of those activities? No, Campbell said. The governor has granted him the authority to act on his own in most cases, including life-or-death emergencies — when a quick response is required — and minor day-to-day operations. And here is some more "actual" reporting, as opposed to Fourniercation.

Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars." THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fac... Excellent recap of the smears and ...

Jeebus…do they know that we have google?
Clareified — The lying lies that the liars lied. My favorite: MCCAIN: “She’s the commander of the Alaska National Guard. … She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” he said on ABC. THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under “federal status,” which means they report to the ...

Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere." Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_fac... Others: Palin - Obama will raise ...

The Associated Press is In the Tank
Snapped Shot — My mortal enemies went through the "trouble" of fact checking Sarah Palin? Sure, if you count actively campaigning for Barack Obama as "fact-checking." ...

If Palin Was A Pitbull With Lipstick, Cindy Was Trying Hard To Be Well Decked Out Big Bird
DownWithTyranny! — ... and even the severely Republican-biased was A.P. forced to admit that Palin lied her way through the whole speech. No one knows what a ...

Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up (Special Edition)
Daily Kos — ... , while previously hitting Obama for dour tone. Separate AP fact checking article is here (Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention). Too bad they don't read their own stuff. ...

Fact Check: Palin’s Dishonest Speech
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated Entries ...

This is Not an Exercise
Sadly, No! — ... grip? Do you slide? Recover, charge, and hide What’s your quote? Do you vote? Do you turn, or does your coat? Are you spare? Have you a part? Is there a finish, a middle, or start? Are you level? How’s your trim? Do you rotate, eddy, or spin? Are you game? What’s your trick? Do you vibrate, bounce, or tick? What’s your cut? Are you correct? Do you detour, bend, or stretch? We’re milling through the grinder, grinding ...

Small Town Values
Interesting Times — Sarah Palin says that her values are small town values and how dare you insult small town values. Really? Her values are small town values? Lying is a small town value? ...

AP article debunks GOP attacks and assertions
The Reaction — ... I'm a little late noticing this, but it's quite nice to see this article by the AP addressing exaggerations and untrue assertions made by various speakers (including the candidates) at the GOP convention. Check it out for yourself here. It makes a nice accompaniment to the ...

Not Ready?
Balloon Juice — ... But. The guy is a campaign flack managing an embarrassment. You have to assume that he’s shading the truth to cover up something worse. Taking a wild guess, the answer most likely has to do with Palin’s problem with telling the truth. In her short time on the national stage Sarah Palin has lied about practically everything. She lied about opposing the Ketchikan bridge, she lied about selling a state plane on eBay and about making a profit on the sale, she lied about visiting Ireland (her plane refueled there), she lied about fighting lobbyists and pork (she set ...

Who's missing?
Newshoggers.com — ... But. The guy is a campaign flack managing an embarrassment. You have to assume that he’s shading the truth to cover up something worse. Taking a wild guess, the answer most likely has to do with Palin’s problem with telling the truth. In her short time on the national stage Sarah Palin has lied about practically everything. She lied about opposing the Ketchikan bridge, she lied about selling a state plane on eBay and about making a profit on the sale, she lied about visiting Ireland (her plane refueled there), she lied about fighting lobbyists and pork (she set a record for ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for September 9, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... Rove/Bush/Cheney/McCain Repuglican! * * * “Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth”. Now that’s a nice way to put it, but frankly, the GOP in general and Sarah Palin in particular are telling outright, downright, bald faced lies!!!  “THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 ...

Campaign 08: Are Voters Really This Finicky?
The Nation: Top Stories — ... this to the surprise addition of Sarah Palin to the GOP ticket, but would that many white female voters simply switch sides like that? Are they that ideologically flexible? I have this regular debate with my fellow progressive friends about whether voters are simply stupid. I always play devil's advocate and argue that the voters are not stupid, just misinformed. That a barrage of 24-hour cable news numbs them and makes them more susceptible than they should be to the ignorant and blatantly false arguments of the right. But lately I haven't been so sure. It's not that the ...