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AP commits 11 reporters to “fact-check” Palin’s autobiography

The Past Tense Media, still doing the left’s dirty work.  Details:

Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently “Going Rogue” is no normal book.

When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.

The AP claims Palin misstated her record with regard to travel expenses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, using statements widely reported elsewhere. But it also speculated into Palin’s motives for writing “Going Rogue: An American Life,” stating as fact that the book “has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto.”

Palin quickly hit back on a Facebook post titled “Really? Still Making Things Up?”

“Imagine that,” the post read. “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.”

The AP, an organization with over 4,000 employees and 49 Pulitzer Prizes earned for asking the hard questions, wouldn’t comment on their own reporting for this story.

Well, at least they got some of their reporters to similarly ”fact-check” autobiographies by Ted Kennedy, the Clintons, Joe Biden, and B.O.  Oh, wait…

Reviewing books and holding public figures accountable is at the core of good journalism, but the treatment Palin’s book received appears to be something new for the AP. The organization did not review for accuracy recent books by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, then-Sen. Joe Biden, either book by Barack Obama released before he was president or autobiographies by Bill or Hillary Clinton. The AP did more traditional news stories on those books.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

Exit question: So does the AP count as a “legitimate news organization”, or will they only qualify after they fact-check an SNL skit?


November 18, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | Palin, hypocrisy, media bias

5 Comments »

  1. There is an old saying…don’t start none..won’t be none.
    Since Palin like to attck the media for reporting on her (the benefits), they are going to hit back.

    Sorry Sarah..but when you can’t answer simple questions the media asks you..want want to blame them saying a media gotcha..what do you expect.

    The said part is that people actually follow her..but then again blind devotion to all the political figures Obama, Gore, Bush, Hannity, O’Riley, Clinton, Limbaugh, Regan are really sicking. Once people learn to think for themselves, check the actual facts, and not listen to what these politicians things will get better.

    Comment by peppereyes | November 18, 2009

  2. There is an old saying…don’t start none..won’t be none.
    Since Palin like to attck the media for reporting on her…

    Yeah, really! The nerve of Palin for defending herself against the media that went dumpster diving in Alaska when she was announced as McCain’s VP last year! And the unmitigated GALL of her to get annoyed at the media trumping up stories that her Downs Syndrome child wasn’t really hers, but her teenage daughter’s, baby! How DARE Palin fight back against that crap!

    In case you didn’t figure it out, the prior paragraph was sarcasm.

    Seriously, “don’t start none”? So you’re saying when Palin decided to accept McCain’s offer to be his running mate, she “started it” with the media? Really?

    Comment by crushliberalism | November 19, 2009

  3. Peppy…..there’s a little button on your computer that says “tools”. Click on it, and go to “spelling and grammar”…. just sayin.

    Comment by Kanaka Girl | November 19, 2009

  4. Crush, I think “peppy” there was an accident. He thought he was on Media Matters?

    “Once people learn to think for themselves”
    He probably still thinks Gore invented the internet.

    Comment by tnjack | November 19, 2009

  5. If he was aiming for MM, then he took a “right” turn and went WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY off course! :lol:

    Comment by crushliberalism | November 20, 2009


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