Fact-Checking the Mainstream Moron Media
Remember the days when you could actually trust the talking heads on your TV screen?
You don’t?
This is probably why.
Lie: Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party (which advocated voting to secede from the Union) before she ran for Governor.
Truth: Sarah Palin was NEVER a member of the Alaska Independence Party.
Lie: Sarah Palin supports abstinence-only education.
Truth: This is tricky. Sarah Palin opposes “explicit” sex education, which is not quite the same as abstinence-only education. “Explicit” sexual education is commonly understood to be more along the lines of http://takecaredownthere.org/, an absolutely disgusting and all-too-accessible website developed by Planned Parenthood and supported by YOUR tax dollars.
More importantly, however, Palin has not made a move to change the way sex ed is taught in Alaska. To wit:
Neither have Palin’s socially conservative personal views on issues like abortion and gay marriage been translated into policies during her 20 months as Alaska’s chief executive. It reflects a hands-off attitude toward mixing government and religion by most Alaskans.
Lie: Sarah Palin is opposed to contraception because she supports abstinence-only sex ed.
Truth: Sarah Palin supports contraception. The abstinence-only thing has yet to be proven.
Lie: Sarah Palin lied to John McCain and his vetting team about Bristol’s pregnancy.
Lie: The McCain team was never told about the Bristol pregnancy
Lie: The McCain team did not thoroughly vet Sarah Palin.
Truth: Incorrect. Not only did 25 people vet Palin as thoroughly as all the other VP candidates, but she told him about Bristol’s pregnancy herself.
Lie: Sarah Palin supports the same windfall profit tax on Big Oil that Obama does.
Truth: Absolutely not. She supports a severance tax, which is standard operating procedure whenever new deposits are struck. (The author of this rebuttal addresses the exact Seattle Times article linked above.)
Lie: Palin lied about being against the Bridge to Nowhere.
Truth: Palin was for a bridge — until the cost of said bridge ballooned out of hand, the way government projects usually do.
Lie: Palin supports creationism being taught in schools.
Truth: She did say she supported both creationism and evolution, but has not effected any school policy changes to include creationism in Alaskan schools.
Feel free to judge Palin on the issues. Feel free to disagree, and vote against her. But don’t judge her on the issues that are blatant lies. Do your own research; don’t just spout off what the coolest new bumper sticker or DailyKOS hate speech tells you. Be a responsible, thinking citizen.
To the media, who obviously can’t do their own research: Knock. It. Off.
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Feed for The Spectrum
It’s not whether or not Palin turns her beliefs into law, but that she actually has those beliefs, that’s what frightens us. It’s taken us a long time to come down from the trees.