{"id":620,"date":"2008-09-09T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/sweet-nothings\/sarah-palin-rumors\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T21:13:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T02:13:02","slug":"sarah-palin-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/rants\/sarah-palin-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/parablemania.ektopos.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/palin-derange.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy<\/a> for linking to these sites. The first is one that focuses on the <a href=\"http:\/\/palinsexismwatch.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">sexist commentary toward\/around\/about Sarah Palin<\/a>. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with submitting a vice presidential candidate to scrutiny but some of this scrutiny is simply ridiculous. Like newspaper articles that focus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/photos\/lat-rewind-palin-fashion5-2008sep05-pg,0,545039.photogallery?index=1\" target=\"_blank\">fashionable way she dresses<\/a>&#8211;ridiculous stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/explorations.chasrmartin.com\/2008\/09\/06\/palin-rumors\/\" target=\"_blank\">second is a (growing) list of rumors that have been flying around<\/a> and which answers them and often links to evidence.\u00a0 Some of it even made its way into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new.facebook.com\/home.php#\/note.php?note_id=27529766633\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook discussion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here are some samples from the list:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>23.<\/strong> No, she&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t believe that the Iraq War was directed by God. Yes, she did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/06\/us\/politics\/06church.html?em\">pray that proceeding with the war was God&#8217;s will<\/a>: &#8220;they should pray \u2018that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God, that&#8217;s what we have to make sure we are praying for, that there is a plan, and that plan is God&#8217;s plan.'&#8221; (Ever hear the phrase &#8220;Not my will, but Thine, be done&#8221;?) Yes, this apparently freaks some people right out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>50.<\/strong> No, she doesn&#8217;t believe in &#8220;abstinence only&#8221; education. Yes, she thinks abstinence is an effective way of preventing pregnancy. Duh. Yes, she believes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-na-sexed6-2008sep06,0,3119305.story\">kids should learn about condom use in schools.<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>37.<\/strong> No, she didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/09\/02\/palin_slashed_funding_to_help.html?hpid=artslot\">cut funding for unwed mothers<\/a>; yes, she did increase it by &#8220;only&#8221; 354 percent instead of 454 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/wthrockmorton.com\/2008\/09\/04\/our-operating-budget-was-not-reduced-director-of-teen-center\/\">as part of a multi-year capital expenditures program.<\/a> No, the Washington Post doesn&#8217;t appear to have corrected their story. Even after this was pointed out in the comments on the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone else getting annoyed by my incessant politics posts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge hat tip to Jeremy for linking to these sites. The first is one that focuses on the sexist commentary toward\/around\/about Sarah Palin. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with submitting a vice presidential candidate to scrutiny but some of this scrutiny is simply ridiculous. Like newspaper articles that focus on the fashionable way she dresses&#8211;ridiculous stuff like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,46,8],"tags":[230,452],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-n-junk","category-politics","category-rants","tag-palin","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}