Anchorage Paper Calls Palin Response to Troopergate 'An Embarrassment'
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By E&P Staff
Published: October 14, 2008 10:10 AM ET NEW YORK
Since its release late last Friday, the Alaska legislatures "Troopergate" has drawn much attention, and Gov. Sarah Palin has claimed numerous times that it actually found no ethical misdeeds on her part -- even as it charged her with a serious "abuse of power." The main paper in her home state is not buying it.
The Anchorage Daily News' angry editorial today was topped with the headline: "Palin vindicated? Governor offers Orwellian spin." It opens: "Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.
"She claims the report 'vindicates' her. She said that the investigation found 'no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.'
"Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian."
An excerpt follows.
In plain English, she did something "unlawful." She broke the state ethics law.
Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters.
That's the charitable interpretation. Because if she had actually read it, she couldn't claim "vindication" with a straight face.
Palin asserted that the report found "there was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired."
In fact, the report concluded that "impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired."
Palin's response is the kind of political "big lie" that George Orwell warned against. War is peace. Black is white. Up is down.
Gov. Palin and her camp trumpeted the report's second finding: that she was within her legal authority to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. But the report also said it's likely one of the reasons she fired him was his failure to get rid of her ex-brother-in-law trooper.
That's not "vindication," and surely Gov. Palin knows it.
omment:
If anyone is going to vote for this ticket, you are doing the rest of us Americans a grave disservice. Abuse of power was what Watergate was about. Sartah Barracuda and McSame (Keating Five) have a track records for abusing their power going in. Do you think they won't abuse their power once in office the first time a bad situation comes along?
By E&P Staff
Published: October 14, 2008 10:10 AM ET NEW YORK
Since its release late last Friday, the Alaska legislatures "Troopergate" has drawn much attention, and Gov. Sarah Palin has claimed numerous times that it actually found no ethical misdeeds on her part -- even as it charged her with a serious "abuse of power." The main paper in her home state is not buying it.
The Anchorage Daily News' angry editorial today was topped with the headline: "Palin vindicated? Governor offers Orwellian spin." It opens: "Sarah Palin's reaction to the Legislature's Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation.
"She claims the report 'vindicates' her. She said that the investigation found 'no unlawful or unethical activity on my part.'
"Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian."
An excerpt follows.
In plain English, she did something "unlawful." She broke the state ethics law.
Perhaps Gov. Palin has been too busy to actually read the Troopergate report. Perhaps she is relying on briefings from McCain campaign spinmeisters.
That's the charitable interpretation. Because if she had actually read it, she couldn't claim "vindication" with a straight face.
Palin asserted that the report found "there was no abuse of authority at all in trying to get Officer Wooten fired."
In fact, the report concluded that "impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired."
Palin's response is the kind of political "big lie" that George Orwell warned against. War is peace. Black is white. Up is down.
Gov. Palin and her camp trumpeted the report's second finding: that she was within her legal authority to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. But the report also said it's likely one of the reasons she fired him was his failure to get rid of her ex-brother-in-law trooper.
That's not "vindication," and surely Gov. Palin knows it.
omment:
If anyone is going to vote for this ticket, you are doing the rest of us Americans a grave disservice. Abuse of power was what Watergate was about. Sartah Barracuda and McSame (Keating Five) have a track records for abusing their power going in. Do you think they won't abuse their power once in office the first time a bad situation comes along?
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