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New Palin smear: She “slashed” funding for pregnant teens by, um, expanding it
Hot Air » Top Picks — New Palin smear: She “slashed” funding for pregnant teens by, um, expanding it posted at 12:23 pm on September 3, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Daily Kos up to no good again? Nah — this one comes from WaPo , doing the hard work of ignoring primary sources that are reproduced right in the piece. The boss , Laura W. , and Anchor Rising did the heavy lifting so read them for the details; if you think expanding a program by $3.9 million instead of $5 million counts as cutting funds, you’re qualified to work for one ...

Why they fear her
Cold Fury — ... more authentic change agent. Exactly right. And as usual, they’re perfectly happy to trample their supposed “principles” in favor of their ass-backwards ideology. They’re frauds, they’re cheap smear merchants, they’re business-as-usual statists, they’re fully invested in their Messiah’s coronation — and they’re wholly, unrelievedly despicable. And they’re every bit as much the Republicans’ opposition in this (and every) election as the Democrats themselves are. Update! They’re also blatant liars .

I have learned more about feminism in the past 48 hours than I had in the previous 40 years
Stop The ACLU — ... the feminists don’t respond with an expected, “wo, there pal”, but obediently follow Markos’ lead. Same thing with regard to the sexist fantasy posts of Andrew Sullivan recently. When the Washington Times writer Paul Kane does a horrid job of journalism (if he meant to do a good job) and publishes an assertion ridiculously easy to disprove to mean the opposite of what he thinks it means (he calls a increase in funding for a shelter for pregnant youth a “slashing” of the budget — it’s been debunked all over the place, I just went to the shelter’s website and compared ...

To the media - please keep it up (Part II)
QandO — ... has pictures: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee who revealed Monday that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, earlier this year used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.But as Allahpundit at Hot Air points out, only in liberal land is "expanding a program by $3.9 million instead of $5 million count[ed] as cutting funds" He also points us to two bloggers who’ve debunked the entire WaPo story. As it turns out, ...