Former Alaska governor and vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s new book is coming out tomorrow. A lot of people, including those that worked in the McCain campaign, have taken exception to some of the contents of the book, specifically the parts she evidently just made up. The AP have been going through the book and have been writing about the factual errors the book contains. Palin has a problem with this. So much so that she wrote about it on her Facebook page:
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that – 11 AP reporters dedicating time and resources to tearing up the book, instead of using the time and resources to “fact check” what’s going on with Sheik Mohammed’s trial, Pelosi’s health care takeover costs, Hasan’s associations, etc. Amazing.
She refers to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as though Sheik is his title, like the Iron Sheik. It’s not his title, it’s his middle name. Maybe she just likes to refer to people by their middle name. In that case, I’m going to start referring to her has Louise Palin. That’s her middle name.
Louise Palin also wrote the following:
We’ll keep setting the record straight, and we’ll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.
I couldn’t disagree with her more. If Americans want objective reporting, why do so many of them watch Fox News? On the contrary, a good many Americans want non-objective, biased reporting. They not only want their news to be biased, a good many of them will simply reject anything that doesn’t embrace their particular bias.
I also think Louise Palin is dead wrong about the AP. I think the AP is very serious about getting the facts right. Back when I found a t-shirt at Wal-Mart with a Nazi skull on it, I was interviewed by an AP reporter for an article they published about the controversy. When the article first appeared online, it incorrectly stated that I’m a veteran of the U.S. Navy. I’m not. I’m a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, not that it mattered.
I didn’t really care, because to me, it didn’t make a difference. I didn’t think my military service pertained at all to the article. About 20 minutes after reading the article, the reporter called me. He asked me whether I had said I was in the Navy or the Air Force. I guess he was going over his notes and noticed that I never said I was in the Navy. I told him that I was in the Air Force, but that I don’t think it mattered. He disagreed. He said that the mistake would be fixed immediately. He said the AP cared a lot about getting facts, all the facts, correct.
Sure enough, the AP quickly corrected the article.
I was impressed by this. I didn’t think it really mattered, but they went to the trouble of fixing a mistake anyway.
So when Louise Palin implies that the AP shouldn’t be trusted with the facts, I couldn’t disagree more.
Lee B.
/ November 16, 2009There’s no polite way to say this, so I’ll just say it:
That is one dumb bitch.
The republican party would do well to distance itself, unless the MILF-chaser voting block is bigger than we think.
And for the record- I have no problem with women in politics, or a female president. Just not Hillary or Sarah. As with anybody, we need the right person for the job, period.
Rick
/ November 16, 2009@Lee B.: I’m watching the Oprah interview on the DVR (don’t tell anyone) and in her defense, I’m surprised how much more polished she is now then she was during the campaign. She sounds a lot better now then she did in the Charlie Gibson interview or the Katie Couric.