Palin sweeper
No real content, just a collection of links gathered mostly from Insty and Treacher, assembled here because I’m getting tired of Googling everything that comes down the wire — and good Lord, there’s a lot of it.
- Annenberg Fact Check rumor/fact check list, and the original master Palin rumor/shootdown list
- Hatefest analyses: Nick Cohen in Guardian/Observer, Clive Crook in FT
- 1996 Wassila newspaper story on censorship inquiries
- She didn’t assert that the Iraq war was a task from God. Those claims quote her out of context during a prayer that our troops, like everyone else, do God’s will.
- The bridge: final verdict appears to be she was for it before she was against it — but once she got all the numbers, it was dead. The Alaska Democratic Party used to agree.
- Troopergate — read the whole thing.
- The per diem thing: apparently, the Washington Post doesn’t understand the concept of a per diem.
- Treacher’s thought on the primary vector for all this is David Axelrod, Obama chief strategist, whose commercial firm is a leader in Astroturfing.
