Compendium of Palin rumors, links and explanations
QandO — Charles Martin at Explorations has a 55 count Palin rumor compendium which he’s established as a sort of clearinghouse for such rumors. He’s adding rumors and links that explain them or debunk them as this goes along. Some, obviously, debunk themselves. ...

Debunked Palin Rumors
The Corner on National Review Online — ... Saturday, September 06, 2008 [image] Debunked Palin Rumors [Jonathan Adler] Here 's a good list. [Note: If the link doesn't work, try ...

One-Stop Shopping for Debunking Palin Smears [someone]
Ace of Spades HQ — One-Stop Shopping for Debunking Palin Smears [someone] Here . Even though this tactic's been shown to backfire, the left just can't help themselves. More on the insanity -- and the Daily Kos Media phenomenon -- at the ...

The “Palin Debunk” List
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... and growing list of debunked Sarah Palin Rumors. The list grows everyday as the press, the liberal blogs, and the Obamabots think up more and more crap to spin about her. So, be sure to check the link regularly, and maybe even print out a hard copy to carry around to slap idiots up-side the head with … Oh, and if YOU happen to hear a Palinism and can debunk it the site at the link invites you to add it to the list … I have only provided the top half already there. Explorations Palin Rumors (As of 9/6/08) ...

Sarah Palin News
The Next Right — ... that, while there's absolutely no confirmation beyond a partisan blogger who just remembered it in time to write a book this year, Cliff Schecter's allegation of McCain calling his wife a [word I won't use] is good enough for them. Amusingly/depressingly, Charley James also accuses Gov. Palin of being vocally racist against Eskimos.  Um...Sarah Palin's husband, Todd Palin, is "of Eskimo ancestry." Charles Martin has a full list of Sarah Palin rumors, along with the facts, rebuttals and ...

All the Sarah Palin rumours, one site
Daimnation! — No, smart guy, it's not andrewsullivan.com. (via Tim Blair) Damian P.

A cheerful, bespectacled hockey mom has turned the entire mainstream media into one big suicide bomb, and all she had to do was show up
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... by trying to stab her in the heart. And now that they've missed, they're trying to guilt her into buying them lunch. The affrontery is mindboggling. She's under no obligation to help these creeps sell ads. She's getting huge crowds and high poll numbers already, and so far she doesn't need them to do it. The more they try to make her look like the bad guy for avoiding them, the more they will be despised. These news weasels have nobody to blame but themselves. There's already a list as long as your arm of unfounded accusations (and true, but irrelevant, factoids) that the ...

The Complete Sarah Palin Smear List- Debunked
Gateway Pundit — Explorations has the complete (nearly) Sarah Palin smear list-- with debunking.

Despite Media Spin-- Palin DID Put Plane On Ebay-- Here's the Ad...
Gateway Pundit — ... Palin said in her acceptance speech this week at the RNC Convention: "That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay." Of course, this is absolutely 100% accurate. But, the liberal-media wants you to believe that Governor Sarah Palin was not honest. They still are trying desperately to destroy her integrity. Sadly, once again, this is just the latest case of the Obama-supporting media trying to smear ...

Anatomy of a Smear
Weekly Standard Blog — Blogger Charlie Martin has helpfully compiled all of the smears that the left has hurled at Sarah Palin. 54 and counting! Given that we’re more than halfway to the century mark in Palin smears, I think it’s time to take another brief look at the left’s method of smear dissemination. Yesterday on a blog hosted by the prestigious magazine the Atlantic, a post popped up at 11:49 a.m. with the breathless title, “Here We Go.” The post read in its entirety, “Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God.” ...

The ultimate list of Palin rumors... debunked
Doug Ross @ Journal — Alaskan Charles Martin has collected and analyzed each of the Palin rumors flying throughout the left side of the blogosphere. Here's a taste. Cripes, this has gotten ridiculous. Folks, look, let’s just run through a list here. (Updated.) Yes, she is ...

Palin rumors collected, and crushed; and Atlantic.com smears her again (but it’s quickly refuted)
Southern Appeal — This is good stuff, and you can find it here . (HT: Dean Barnett at the Weekly Standard ) According to Barrett, here’s the latest smear, offered by  the Atlantic, a magazine once known for a measured and more careful approach: Todd Palin’s former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God. But, as fate would have it, the Atlantic writer’s attempt at passive aggressively dropping a hint of an adulterous liaison turned out to be just another case of the writer  doing a bad Rona Barrett ...

Everyone Expects the MSM Inquisition!
The Sundries Shack — ... Charles Martin has done us the great favor of collecting all the stories being tossed around about Palin and her family, both on highly influential left-wing blogs and in the media (via ...

Sarah Palin: The Venus Fly Trap
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... Palin--the VP choice--is already drawing the kind of crowds that Obama was drawing early in the primary campaign; unbelievable excitement and electricity wherever she goes (witness, e.g. her Colorado Springs appearance today). And one could argue that all of this buzz would never have been possible had it not been for the publicity generated by mainstream media is making it all possible with their non-stop tabloid coverage. The only problem for the Dems: the public finally sees the media for what they are; just another arm of the DNC. And this helps the Republicans. ...

Sarah Palin: The Venus Fly Trap
The Discerning Texan — ... Palin--the VP choice--is already drawing the kind of crowds that Obama was drawing early in the primary campaign; unbelievable excitement and electricity wherever she goes (witness, e.g. her Colorado Springs appearance today). And one could argue that all of this buzz would never have been possible had it not been for the publicity generated by mainstream media is making it all possible with their non-stop tabloid coverage. The only problem for the Dems: the public finally sees the media for what they are; just another arm of the DNC. And this helps the ...

On Debunking Those Anti-Sarah Palin Rumors
Hyscience — ... If you're having a tough time distinguishing between truth and fiction (nice way of saying liberal smear), "Explorations" has a list of anti-Palin rumors going around the Internet and in the "news" (chuckle chuckle) media. At the time of this writing, the list is up to #66. ...

CARNIVAL OF THE INSANITIES - PALINPALOOZA
Dr. Sanity — ... your submitted post is included would be appreciated...and some extremely harsh penalties await those who do not comply with this simple and reasonable request! REMEMBER, THERE ARE SO MANY INSANITIES AND SO LITTLE TIME!!! 1. Sarah Palin: Let's kill stuff! Blacklisted, blackballed or blackedout? How, how how should they go in for the kill? 2. OK, let's talk Sarah Palin...Do you think there are enough Palin rumors being being bandied about? Well here are some future ones! See them ...

Brilliant!
sassafrassin.com — Explorations Currently, 1 through 55 are up, and they make a mighty fine - and funny! - read.

How the Left Went Berserk
JammieWearingFool — ... The slogans that move their hearts and stir their souls are directed against their enemies: Bush, the neo-cons, the religious right. This has all manifested in an orgiastic frenzy of hatred and venom directed at a woman unknown to the freaks just two weeks ago. Now they're fumbling and tripping over themselves to invent lies, distortions and half-truths, shredding all credibility or pretense of objectivity. It's exhausting just trying to keep up with the fabrications. But at least someone's doing it. Seems to me the Atlantic might want to have a chat with their resident ...

Gov. Palin rumors list
Sister Toldjah — ... Blogger Charlie Martin has compiled a long list of rumors (which he notes have been debunked) that have been spread by the far left and some in the mainstream media about Gov. Sarah Palin.  It’s a post that should be bookmarked as he plans on adding to it each time a new rumor is started and debunked. ...

Myths and realities of Palin’s record on social issues
Pundit Review — ... “. He examines a single anti-Palin smear, from who else…Andrew Sullivan. Dean also links to a very helpful post by blogger Charlie Martin cataloging all of the anti-Palin smears so far. Dean will be my guest tonight on Pundit Review Radio. Charge : Palin cut funding for pregnant teens Status : Not True FACTS : She increased funding by “only” 354 percent instead of 454 percent ...

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me"
sisu — ... "Also, I’m scheduled right now to be on Fox News at 0935 Eastern time Monday morning with Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly to talk about the list. Excuse me while I have a minor fanboy moment about Megyn Kelly," writes Charlie Martin of Explorations, Palin Rumors Central for the growing body of scandal allegations swirling around the Republican ticket's vp running mate. A great resource, but as we wrote in Charlie's comments, allegation #48 – "yes, she apparently believes in some variant of Intelligent Design" – is yet to be verified. We blogged about the issue last week: ...

A Sunday mixed bag
Stubborn Facts — At Presopundit: A photo and link to video of Palin's speech in Colorado today. And via the same, numerous Palin rumors debunked (we're big on that, here). MSNBC has a chat with Maria Bartiromo and Tim Pawlenty about Sarah Palin. Spengler writes: [R]ejecting Clinton in favor of ... Joe Biden was a statement of weakness. McCain's selection was a statement of strength. ... That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide, barring some unforeseen event. ... Obama evidently chose [Biden] to ...

The Snopes Site of the Palin-sphere.
Little Miss Attila — The Snopes Site of the Palin-sphere. For those who haven't seen it yet, Charlie Martin of Explorations has the Definitive List of Palin Rumors, with the status of each. ("Yes, she does have a tattoo of the Big Dipper on one ankle; she lost a bet." [Though I think she might be covering that with makeup for the durations of the campaign; we know she isn't wearing hose, and we have concluded that she must have be best spray-tan product in the world, or she's getting it in one of those fake-tan booths. All the better to show off her signature high heels. But in all the footwear ...

The Miracle Worker
The American Spectator — ... : "She's not running against Sarah Palin, let's be clear. She is not on the ticket." Indeed she is not, and Obama, who narrowly beat her for the presidential nomination and then passed her over in favor of Biden as his running mate, can hardly depend on Hillary to bail him out of this fix. And what a fix it is! Every attack on Palin seems to have backfired so far. Internet rumor-mongers had a field day (by Sunday, conservative blogger Charles Martin had listed 69 different Palin rumors), and yet her popularity increased. With Palin on the ticket, McCain attracted overflow ...

Separating Palin Fact From Palin Fiction
Pajamas Media — ... said, “The rest was history.” So this is the complete list of Palin Rumors , at least as it stands about midnight Mountain Time on September 7, 2008.  (The link will take you back to the complete and current list on my blog ...

The Compendium of Sarah Palin Rumors
Stones Cry Out — ... Charlie Martin at the Explorations blog has put together an (ever-growing) list of 60+ rumors about Sarah Palin.  Most have links to their debunking, and a few are actually…er…”bunked”.  Bookmark it.  I have a feeling we’ll all need to refer to this often in the next 2 months (and with any luck, the next 4 years). ...

Palin rumors debunked: The update
TigerHawk — I've linked before to this comprehensive debunking (with some bunking, too) of extant Palin rumors, but it has been extensively updated. If you are a supporter, you will want to read it so you can hold your own at the best cocktail parties (not that most Palin supporters go to cocktail parties, but if you do you will almost certainly need this post). If you are not a supporter, you should at least know whether or not you are spreading lies at cocktail parties. 1 Comments: Obama supporters should keep their mouths shut if they see cops at the cocktail parties. The national ...

McCain/Palin Campaign Rally In Lee’s Summit, MO
Nice Deb — ... at the age of some of these protesters. What kind of person has their kid skip school to protest an opposing party’s political rally, I ask you. The McCain/Palin troops were a feisty bunch, who jeered at the sullen group as they passed.  One of the signs said “Get the facts on Palin”. I countered with, “Let’s hear what you got, come on let’s hear it….any more dirt on baby Trig???” Fun times, fun times! (Seriously though, here’s a great source of 71[and counting] debunked Palin smears. Or you can try Fact ...

The New Playbook
The American Spectator — ... Yankees fan with roots in Illinois may not have been enough of a tutorial in how to stop real agents of change. But campaign operatives spend years honing political reflexes, and so Democratic talking points continue to trudge forward, limping from the beating that many of them received from the Governor of Alaska and her band of merry men, but still capable of persuading uninformed voters. While I am not a Republican, I am, together with such disparate conservatives as blogger Charles Martin and rocker ...

Mona Charen: Palin, the Media, and Trig.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... ...when it comes to pro-choice people in general. I will go this far when it comes to the utterly contemptible and vile reactions on this story from both the media and our ever-so-tolerant fellows on the Other Side; I'm not a psychologist by any means, but I've seen enough people with guilty consciences to notice when someone may be angrily suffering from one. You don't get this kind of reaction - which, as usual, has not been significantly pushed-back on by the often invoked but never active quote-unquote "Decent Left" - from people who are disengaged. ...

Sarah Palin Smear Watch: False Internet Claims and Rumors Debunked AGAIN
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Charlie Martin’s list of debunking Sarah Palin rumors and falsehoods yesterday. His website is back up and can be seen here. The summary from Pajamas Media is ...

She Named Her Daughters After Witches & Other Lies About Sarah Palin
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... And obsess they do. Did you hear? Sarah Palin named her daughters after witches! Sarah Palin banned books! Sarah Palin is against birth control! Sarah Palin is a bad mother! Sarah Palin caused her child to have Down's Syndrome! Sarah Palin cut special needs funding! Sarah Palin is a porn star! Sarah Palin called Hillary a whiner! And I'm sure Sarah murdered someone too, but I haven't found that one yet. Oh, wait. That was Hillary. ...

Academic hack goes fishing with red herring bait
Silent Running — ... what he’s saying, you are again reminded why Juan’s ‘analysis’ of the Middle East in general seems to be so unique , and quite often wildly inaccurate. Tolerance and democracy require freedom of speech and the press, but while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin inquired of the local librarian how to go about banning books that some of her constituents thought contained inappropriate language. She tried to fire the librarian for defying her. Not exactly the way it went down, Juan. Yes ( #40 ), she did make the enquiry, in the course of a general and open discussion, soliciting the ...

Media, Authenticity, Feminism and Election ‘08
The Anchoress — ... essay after another, Palin is a creature up with which the left will not put, and any auld smear will do , no matter how vile. So “sisterhood” is baloney , and dramatic accusations of ...

Two Sources On Palin Rumors
Sound Politics — ... Palin. Second, a post from Charles Martin, with a list of Palin rumors , most of them false. There are nasty rumors in every national campaign. But I haven't seen anything like this flood of rumors smearing a single candidate before. If anything, the flood has helped the McCain-Palin ticket and damaged the reputations of those spreading the rumors. But I don't see any signs that the flood will abate any time soon. (And yes, there have been nasty rumors about Barack Obama, that he is a Muslim, that he was not an American citizen, and so forth. I usually don't even ...

The Wages of Crying Wolf
Stubborn Facts — ... . They're going to remember the story of the boy who cried wolf. In their desperation to find anything that can be weaponized against Palin, they have cried wolf ...

I Slowly Come Up To Speed
JustOneMinute — As I gear up for this weekend's cocktail party circuit I am busy prepping to rebut a big talking point from a certain slice of last weeks crowd, to wit - Sarah Palin wants creationism to be taught in schools. Now, I could have gone to Charlie's helpful list debunking the Sarah Palin rumors and misinformation, where this topic appears ...

BDS Meets PDS: AP Writer 'Finds' Bush v. Gore/Palin Investigation Parallels
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Of course, Dems and their co-operatives in traditional media aren't just working on "Troopergate." They're also stirring up rumors, half-truths, and untruths about Palin at breakneck speed -- so far totalling 84, according to Charles Martin, who has taken on the unenviable task of monitoring them. ...

Oh Palin They Love You. Let Us Count The Ways
Snapped Shot — ... Check out this site: Explorations. Site owner, Charlie Martin, has been tracking and debunking all of the attacks and rumors that have been spreading about Gov Palin by the media (and the general idiots on the Left). ...

Another Palin Rumor Bites the Dust . . .
Little Miss Attila — Another Palin Rumor Bites the Dust . . . From Charlie's masterful debunking of Palin rumors over at Observations, the truth about the "victims charged for rape kits" allegation: No, she didn’t try to charge rape victims personally for rape kits. This is one of those complicated ones with a tiny hint of truth behind it. First, the Chief of Police in Wasilla (not Palin) did apparently have a policy of asking a victim’s health insurance to pay for the rape kit as part of the ER visit. This, it turns out, is policy in a number of states, including Missouri and North Carolina. ...

He forgot the one about her posing with an air rifle in a Stars and Stripes bikini
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... , the fact that she took an 8 hour flight, then a 45 minute car ride after her water broke when she was "pregnant" with a baby who had down's syndrome , yeah, that's great. An ...

A Tale of Two Vettings
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... regarding payment for rape kits - the media is all too happy to repeat the top-line, 30-second-viral-ad charge against Palin, and then move on before there is time for the facts to come out. A vast number of these have been debunked (another prominent example was the false claim that she'd belonged to the Alaska Independence Party), yet they keep on coming too fast for the media to be bothered sifting the truth out; as long as somebody's willing to say it, it gets dumped into the national bloodstream. The level of detail and rigor required before stories about Obama can get ...

Links for 2008-09-23 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... women's issues and crime victims Ahmadinejad on the Jewish People - No Problems Palin's town charged women for rape exams - CNN.com Interviews and a review of records turned up no evidence that Palin knew that rape victims were being charged in her town. But Croft, the former state representative who sponsored the law changing the practice, says it seems unlikely Palin was not aware of the issue. ++++++++ Oh no they didn't. Palin Rumors | Explorations 84 and counting. Note #72 about rape kits

links for 2008-09-24
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Confederate Yankee: The Palin Rape Kit Circus Continues Another Rape Kit Circus Post (tags: sarah_palin) Palin Rumors | Explorations 84 and counting. Note #72 about rape kits (tags: sarah_palin ...

More on "Rape-Gate" In Wasilla.
Little Miss Attila — ... Part II No word yet on whether Confederate Yankee (or Charlie at Explorations, for that matter) will be invoicing the mainstream news outlets who reported the story wrong, thereby compelling unpaid journalists to pick up the pieces after the hacks at CNN, US News & World Report, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, and "dozens" of others reported the story wrong because, hey shoeleather is expensive, and phone bills are high, and what's the harm anyway, if it might help put Obama in the White House where he belongs? Via Twitter-Tweets from ...

WaPo Ignores Its Own Poll Showing McCain Gain, Focuses on Palin Allegedly ‘Dragging Down’ GOP Ticket
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Agiesta wrote over 1,100 words, yet never named a single "perceived misstep," let alone "several." That also seems to be a tacit acknowledgment that the Alaska Governor has committed no real missteps. Naming the ones that are "perceived" would be embarrassing -- not to Ms. Palin, but to the reporters and the Old Media establishment they represent. Just take your pick from Charles Martin's accumulated list of myths and rumors, now up to 97 (the first 85 are here; scroll through his content or search on each relevant number to find the ...

IS THERE ANY WAY SARAH PALIN CAN RECOVER?
Right Wing Nut House — ... candidate that was treated so unfairly by the media in the modern age. The number of rumors, falsehoods, and lies that were published as fact about her is truly astonishing and has no parallel in modern politics. (Such blackening the name of candidates with prevarications was routine in the 19th century but died out when newspapers became more independent of parties.) I am surprised that I have not read that Sarah Palin bites the heads off chickens and drinks their blood. Charles Marti n took the trouble of listing the media lies about Palin, stopping at 84 linked entries - ...