kendall i trust your information to be vetted even more than my own as you are very careful. 


--- On Wed, 9/10/08, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Fw: FactCheck correction on Sliming Palin
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 1:31 PM
> Ken,
> 
> My sister was in town on Monday, and wer talked about
> several of
> these.  I've been as careful as possible to send only
> "vetted"
> information to the list.
> 
> As Fact Check says:
> 
> "In our original story, we incorrectly said that a few
> of the claims
> we examine here were included in the e-mail by Anne
> Kilkenny. Only one
> of the claims – about the librarian's firing – was
> _similar_ (emphasis
> added) to an item in that e-mail"
> 
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:09 PM, ken barber
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > i hope you can get this and it is information you can
> use. i did not know some of these questions were out there.
> >
> > --- On Tue, 9/9/08, FactCheck.org
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > From: FactCheck.org
> <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >                    Correction: In our original story,
> we incorrectly said that a few of the claims we examine here
> were included in the e-mail by Anne Kilkenny. Only one of
> the claims – about the librarian's firing – was
> similar to an item in that e-mail. We regret the error. We
> are sending this corrected summary and links to the story to
> all readers on our e-mail list. We also have revised the
> story's section dealing with accusations that Palin
> wanted to ban books from Wasilla's library to include
> more detail about what transpired at the time.
> >
> >
> >
> >                    Sliming Palin
> >                    September 8, 2008
> >                    False Internet claims and rumors
> fly about McCain's running mate.
> >                    Summary
> >                    We've been flooded for the past
> few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and
> mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain's
> running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely
> false, or misleading.
> >
> >                        Palin did not cut funding for
> special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She
> didn't cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil
> funding over just three years.
> >
> >                        She did not demand that books
> be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a
> widely circulated list were not even in print at the time.
> The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?"
> question, but the librarian continued in her job through
> most of Palin's first term.
> >
> >                        She was never a member of the
> Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to
> vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States.
> She's been registered as a Republican since May 1982.
> >
> >                        Palin never endorsed or
> supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a
> Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited
> Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair
> of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.
> >                        Palin has not pushed for
> teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said
> that students should be allowed to "debate both
> sides" of the evolution question, but she also said
> creationism "doesn't have to be part of the
> curriculum."
> >
> >                    We'll be looking into other
> charges in an e-mail by a woman named Anne Kilkenny for a
> future story.  For more explanation of the bullet points
> above, please read the Analysis.
> >
> >                    Note: This is a summary only. The
> full article with analysis, images and citations may be
> viewed on our Web site:
> 
> 
> Kendall
> 
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
> redundant!)
> 
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
> unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
> Therefore, all
> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
> 
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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