Palin Makes Troopergate Assertions that Are Flatly False (ABC News)

[jefferson_dem]

Palin Makes Troopergate Assertions that Are Flatly False

October 12, 2008 6:56 PM

On Saturday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin twice spoke to reporters about the so-called "Troopergate" scandal and the investigative report on whether she had abused her power in trying to get her sister's ex-husband Mike Wooten fired as a state trooper, and for firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan one year after she, her staffers, and her husband Todd began unsuccessfully pressuring Monegan to let Wooten go.

Palin spoke on the phone with Alaska reporters about the report. The McCain-Palin campaign only allowed one question per reporter. The journalists came from the Anchorage Daily News, KTVA-Channel 11 and KTUU-Channel 2. No follow-ups were allowed.

The call can be heard HERE.

"Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing," Palin said, "any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that."

That's just not the case.

One can make the argument, as Palin and her allies have tried to do, that this investigation -- launched by a bipartisan Republican-controlled legislative body -- was somehow a partisan Democratic witch hunt, but one cannot honestly make the argument that the report concluded that Palin was "cleared of any legal wrongdoing" or "any hint of unethical activity."

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/palin-makes-tro.html

[dkf]

1. I can't believe they are calling her out on her lies!

Simply amazing.

[nyhuskyfan]

2. Yeah, but...

They are calling her out on a blog.

I might have missed it, but I didn't see one of the Sunday morning shows discuss Troopergate at all.

[Mojambo]

3. Republicans love to massage reality.

Palin loves to beat the living shit out of reality.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. I love headlines like that .... I had to check to see if it was yours or theirs

That's gonna hurt.

Thanks.