Noticing an ever-reliably-anti-Palin AP news piece that provided what they thought was the only newsworthy item about Sarah Palin--an actually, truly, reliably totally independent investigator found evidence, yes evidence, that Palin violated ethics rules by raising money for her defense fund--I was chagrined to find "the rest of the story" from Fox News.
Here's the story: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/palin-investigator-ties-democratic-party/?test=latestnews and notice the title, "Palin Ethics Investigator Closely Tied to Democratic Party", then the sub "Independent investigator Thomas Daniel has contributed $3,500 in recent years to Democratic causes, including $1,500 to John Kerry's presidential campaign in 2004 and $1,000 to Alaska Sen. Mark Begich's senatorial campaign last year,"
Then the story: "The independent investigator who has accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of violating state ethics laws is a major donor to the Democratic Party as well as a partner in a law firm that represented Barack Obama's presidential campaign."
"Thomas Daniel was hired by the Alaska Personnel Board in late April to investigate several complaints against Palin, including one filed by an Alaska resident who claims the governor used her official position for personal gain by authorizing the creation of a trust to use as her legal defense fund.
"In a July 14 report leaked to The Associated Press and major news organizations, Daniel accused Palin of drawing improper gifts and unwarranted benefits...Palin's supporters say the governor, who will resign on Sunday, needs the legal fund because of a quirk in Alaska law that prevents state officials from defending the state's chief executive against ethics allegations.
"The whole situation is nuts," said John Coale, a prominent Washington attorney who helped set up the legal fund, which so far has accepted $500,000 in donations. "Alaska has an ethics law that is unsustainable."
Coale also accused the personnel board of being "either vicious or idiotic" to hire Daniel, whose law firm is closely tied to the Democratic Party...
Here's my email to a news editor on the situation and the reporting:
"I noticed with chagrin the supposedly "straight news" story about the ethics charge by a so-called "independent investigator" over Gov. Palin's legal defense fund. Before even getting into the tall or even short grass, I had to shake my head over the obvious fallout from this criminalization-of-politics culture that has combined with anti-Palin hysteria by the Democrat left and the badly written/conceived Alaska ethics law. The law, signed by Palin, for supreme irony, has allowed the dozens of charges, none of which have panned out, to which Palin and her staff must devote time to respond to, tying up resources', casting a cloud over her conduct, with no check or balance in the process. One simple problem is that there is no penalty to anyone that makes what turns out to be a false or frivolous charge, which they have all been up to now. This has been the definition of the reprehensible trend called "the criminalization of politics."
"I knew immediately that what was left out of the AP story (the same AP which was from the start of the Palin Veep saga, obsessed with digging any dirt they could find--sorry to slam your beloved AP) was any background on the possible/likely partisan slant to the charge and the "independent investigator." I knew on first read that it was a hit-job that essentially said that "we (the Democrat opponents) will use the system to level charge after baseless charge, force you, Palin, to fight and spend to defend against them, and now we are gonna make yet another baseless charge that you're in the wrong to solicit funds to defray what you've had to spend in the kangaroo-court process.
"I can't really express the disgust, the anathema, the bile I have for the entire Democrat/media complex that will not leave this woman alone. I could have forgotten about it and her story if it were not the obsession, the howling-at-the-moon distortion of all that is right and decent, of these people to destroy a public servant, a mom, a symbol of conservative values. They all make...me...sick."
Here are the YouTubes of her speech from Monday, a true inspiration beyond anything I have ever heard come out the teleprompter's mouth, Obama:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhAnDsXEPEI
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALswHoIpPo
Now, here's the first cheap shot from the enviro/dem/wacko/moveon.org left over Palin's determination to advocate for energy for America's future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25KfNHn0wms&feature=player_embedded
and the HotAir blog on it:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/27/video-moveon-launches-new-energy-campaign-targeting-noted-private-citizen/
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