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Newsweek casually repeats smear that Palin cut funding for teen mothers

Restrictions on abortion in Alaska have actually been loosened during her tenure. Last November, the Alaska Supreme Court rejected a 1997 law requiring girls younger than 16 to obtain parental consent before getting an abortion. Palin slammed the ruling as “outrageous” and had her attorney general to file for a rehearing, but it was promptly denied.

Meanwhile, both this year and last year, she has used her line-item veto to slash state funds for programs providing precisely the kinds of resources Feminists for Life supports for at-risk mothers on the fence about abortion. She cut by 20 percent the funding for Covenant House Alaska, a state program that includes a transitional home where new teenage mothers can spend up to 18 months learning money management and parenting skills.

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You need to keep pimping this list in every appropriate post so that memorandum trolls get to it…

http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/

I would create a post linking the newsweek piece with this…

http://wthrockmorton.com/2008/09/04/our-operating-budget-was-not-reduced-director-of-teen-center/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 4, 2008
Contact: Deirdre A. Cronin
Executive Director
907-339-4203

“Covenant House Alaska is a multi-service agency serving homeless and runaway youth, including teen mothers. The majority of the agency’s annual operating budget is privately raised, with no more than 10 to 15 percent of funds coming from state grants in any given year. We are grateful for the support we have received from Governor Sarah Palin, the Alaska legislature and our Congressional delegation over the years.

Despite some press reports to the contrary, our operating budget was not reduced. Our $3.9 million appropriation is directed toward a multi-year capital project and it is our understanding that the state simply opted to phase in its support for this project over several years, rather than all at once in the current budget year.”

Covenant House Alaska is Alaska’s largest private non-profit adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway and at–risk youth between the ages of 13 and 21. With particular expertise in helping some of the most hopeless teens grow into independent, successful and productive adults.

-END

ninjapirate on September 6, 2008 at 9:08 PM

Journalistic malpractice.

fossten on September 6, 2008 at 9:12 PM

But it was on the internets.

SouthernGent on September 6, 2008 at 9:12 PM

Oh that Newsweek! So Long Island.

Coronagold on September 6, 2008 at 9:22 PM

Hey, the presidents of CNN and NBC News told us it was just outrageous, irresponsible bloggers putting out this crap.

Karl on September 6, 2008 at 9:22 PM

These old dinosaurs will have no choice but to tangle us on the internets. Come on in fellas. The water’s ripe for a feeding frenzy.

Coronagold on September 6, 2008 at 9:31 PM

All my parrots love Newsweek.

Absorbent, but able to hold a load.

(They can all say: “Barack Obama!” , too. And “Pretty Boy“.)

profitsbeard on September 6, 2008 at 10:32 PM

It will be repeated again and again until the under-informed have been properly programmed.

joewm315 on September 6, 2008 at 10:48 PM

Man, the media’s handing out journalistic blowjobs like candy to the democrats.

Darth Executor on September 6, 2008 at 11:54 PM

Ok, I like this story, and the clear and present debunking of it, but there’s one out there I’ve grown to love more.

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien repeating the claim has several places now willing to run with the story that she cut special needs funding by 60%.

Sadly, one site has done some research and shown how this is just not true… That site?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/6/161910/4112/564/589298

KOS… if that isn’t enough fun for you; then you and I have different ideas of fun. CNN’s reporting upstaged by the conservative reich-wing KOS…

This makes me giggle like a schoolgirl… not pretty (36, male, carrying some extra pounds and facial hair) but I can’t help myself.

Using that link in comments on liberal sites to debunk the meme? More fun than I’ve had doing anything else today.

And I was watching the Freakazoid DVD and the House marathon earlier. :)

gekkobear on September 6, 2008 at 11:57 PM

Using that link in comments on liberal sites to debunk the meme? More fun than I’ve had doing anything else today.

And I was watching the Freakazoid DVD and the House marathon earlier.

gekkobear on September 6, 2008 at 11:57 PM

You are my new BFF.

joewm315 on September 7, 2008 at 12:05 AM

The MSM is just an adjunct to the Democrat party. There are only a handful of actual journalists left, the rest have been pushed out by the party hacks.

If I posted 10,000 words a day, I couldn’t cover how repellent that is, and how dangerous.

Merovign on September 7, 2008 at 1:16 AM

If I posted 10,000 words a day, I couldn’t cover how repellent that is, and how dangerous.

After this week, you don’t have to.

Jim Treacher on September 7, 2008 at 1:33 AM

I’m keeping this article as a PERFECT example of twist and spin. The lead line says it all, inferring it was her, not their Supreme Court, which “liberalized” abortion laws.

Classic MSM.

Tommygun on September 7, 2008 at 3:58 AM

Journalistic malpractice.

fossten on September 6, 2008 at 9:12 PM

You have to understand that in their minds (left/socialist/press), a reduction in an increase is a cut!
So the report is not a lie, but the truth, in their minds.

lsutiger on September 7, 2008 at 7:42 AM


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