AP: Palin Issues Report, Clears Self of Wrongdoing in Troopergate Probe

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Too hilarious… This is not an Onion headline! From AP, within the last hour…

Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe

Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing.

Lawmakers are expected to release their own findings Friday.

UPDATE: 10/10/08: Oops. The official bi-partisan state report has now been released, and Palin has been found to have illegally abused the power of her office. MSNBC’s coverage here…

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AP: Palin Issues Report, Clears Self of Wrongdoing in Troopergate Probe

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  1. 1)
    Soul Rebel said on 10/9/2008 @ 10:31pm PT: [Permalink]

    I just read this 10 minutes ago before I logged here. Freakin’ hilarious stuff. This McCain campaign is an absolute sideshow.

  2. 2)
    Caleb said on 10/10/2008 @ 2:13am PT: [Permalink]

    Do not take this stock market decline at face value! This is very, very suspicious–drastic falls in share prices with little uptick in volume, threats of martial law directed at Congressmen (see California Congressman Brad Sherman’s speech opposing the bailout), a government and President that seemingly wants to scare us instead of trying to calm the situation. I have no idea what is really going on, but the history of the Iraq war and election fraud should have taught us to be skeptical.

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    Bluebear2 said on 10/10/2008 @ 3:59pm PT: [Permalink]

    Palin releases own Troopergate report:

    In an effort to head off the report, McCain campaign spokesman Taylor Griffin released the campaign’s own version of events. That report, which Griffin said was written by campaign staffers, says the Legislature has taken a legitimate policy dispute between a governor and one of her commissioners, and portrayed it as something inappropriate.

    But wait a minute:

    “Whenever anyone writes their own report, they’re filtering their data. And if you’ve already drawn your conclusion, you tend to filter it in a way to support that conclusion,” [Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, said.]

    Um, isn’t there some kind of disconnect there?

    Link

  4. 7)
    Big Dan said on 10/10/2008 @ 4:57pm PT: [Permalink]

    “I find myself – NOT GUILTY!!!” CASE DISMISSED!!!

    I learned that since 2000, we don’t have to follow laws, that’s one thing that was taught to us all in the last 8 years. Laws are quaint, not to be followed.

  5. 8)
    Big Dan said on 10/10/2008 @ 8:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    AP changed their headline when you hit that link, they must be on to you, Brad.

    You’re right, it’s not an Onion headline, it’s a MAD Magazine headline! And further proof of the “liberal media” sham, the biggest sham of all time!

    Let’s watch and see if they cover a REAL abuse of power story with as much vigor as the bogus ACORN voter fraud stories! Keep track of that, Brad!

    Maybe this won’t be on TV!!! At all!!! Will Fox “news” cover it at all???

  6. 10)
    Anthony Look said on 10/11/2008 @ 2:17pm PT: [Permalink]

    The darling of the conservative christian right, Lying Palin, has been given new marching orders to tackle the age old staples of abortion, gay marriage, and immigration. The tactics aren’t changing, it is still muster up hate within the troops, just the topic is modified.
    Lack of ethics and racism and breaking the commandment of bearing false witness, run hand in hand all in the name of the god of this female false prophet.
    McCain will bandy about this next week with the other falsehoods about ACORN, and tout his economic bribe policies at the wall street, banking and corporation entities; all along proclaiming it’s for the average American ( and not a mention of the illegal vote purging that the GOP has already accomplished). All the while, Fox propaganda machine spewing their affirming lies 24 hours a day.The addition of ministers, evoking their two cents (and retaining their tax exempt status) goes unanswered as well, instilling their false prophet threats of their god that apparently condones lies and fear.
    Meanwhile the Democratic party says and does nothing about the hundreds of thousands of voters that have been purged. Meanwhile the justice department does nothing about the hundreds of illegally disenfranchised voters (after Obama wins, there will be plenty to prosecute this current AG).
    It is up to the bloggers to incite the network news to address the vote purging truth and not these false distractions that the GOP and McCain campaign is spoon feeding the networks. Where are all the true journalist. Why isn’t Brad Friedman on a network news show.
    McCain only refrained from this last weeks continuation of hate speeches so that he could appear like the maverick he so maliciously tries to say he is; the harm has been done. The real ugliness of the GOP was becoming too evident and it was hurting him, he did not do this for the sake of the nation; once again America did not come first with this man and his demon like not repented unethical and lying side kick. The lying will continue this week, just new victims, the same hate format continues.

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