Sarah Palin is trying to fact check the fact checkers. The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee — whose memoir release this week has just about everyone talking about her — took issue in a Facebook note today with the AP’s scathing fact check of her book. She even goes so far as call the AP piece “opposition research.”
Amazingly, but not surprisingly, the AP somehow nabbed a copy of the book before it was released. They’re now erroneously reporting on the book’s contents and are repeating many of the same things they spewed during the campaign and afterwards. We’ve heard 11 writers are engaged in this opposition research, er, “fact checking” research! Imagine that – 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.
We’ll keep setting the record straight, and we’ll keep reminding some in the media that Americans are very tired of their non-objective reporting.
The AP, which got a copy of Sarah Palin’s forthcoming memoir “Going Rogue” several days before the book’s Nov. 17 release, called Palin out on a number of false or exaggerated claims in the book.
Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time.
Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer’s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.
The full AP piece is here.
