Fair enough. It's just that I was so surprised that Fox News (!) reported it that I was willing to believe it. I want to believe it. I want her 2012 hopes dashed. I want her to just slink away and go back to Alaska.
This is another in a string of Plain Facts (tm) that has gotten no serious digging. The summary of this story is:
"We heard from some guy that another guy said that Palin said something stupid."
If you go back to the fact-checks on the "Palin-wants-to-burn-your-library-books" story or the "Palin-wants-to-secede" story or the "Palin-makes-rape-victims-pay-for-rape-kits" story, you'll find they all followed the pattern of being widely distributed with no regard for the fact that they um, weren't ... true.
From the Huffington PostgballsoutNovember 7 2008, 19:08:22 UTC
The Palin rape kit billing controversy has made its way from OfftheBus to CNN. In her story on the controversy, CNN's Jessica Yellin claimed to have found no evidence in city records that Sarah Palin was aware that sexual assault victims were being billed for forensic testing. However, recently released budget documents show that Sarah Palin directly shifted the cost of the rape kits from the police department to the victims in her budget for fiscal year 2000. If what a former city council member told CNN is true, that "Palin would review each department's budget line by line," then she either knew about the funding shift and approved it or was negligent in her role as state executive
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Re: From the Huffington Post continuedgballsoutNovember 7 2008, 19:08:48 UTC
In an earlier piece, I had mistakenly said that the exams were covered under a general "contingency" funding. In fact, the department's first full-year budget, for fiscal year 1994 (July 1, 1993-June 30, 1994), included a line item specifically to pay for medical examinations. This line item was denoted "contractual services", and was described on page G-26 of that budget (available in this PDF on page 42) as covering "costs for medical blood tests for intoxicated drivers & medical exam/evidence collection for sexual assaults." As a member of the city council at the time, Palin was required to read and approve this budget. The contractual services line item was more succinctly described in the 1995 and 1996 budgets as "costs for medical blood tests or exams as required for evidence
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"We heard from some guy that another guy said that Palin said something stupid."
If you go back to the fact-checks on the "Palin-wants-to-burn-your-library-books" story or the "Palin-wants-to-secede" story or the "Palin-makes-rape-victims-pay-for-rape-kits" story, you'll find they all followed the pattern of being widely distributed with no regard for the fact that they um, weren't ... true.
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