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November 19, 2009

Palin/Beck 2012

If the U.S. still exists as a country in 2012, then Palin/Beck may be just the ticket to pull us back from the brink of communism.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/Palin-Beck-2012

Posted by Rob Kiser on November 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM

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From Thursday's "Best of the Web Today" column from the Wall Street Journal:

Accountability Journalism

An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:

Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11

Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432

Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3

On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism.

Posted by: anonymous on November 21, 2009 at 11:21 AM

Haha. Classic. I love how they're fact checking her book instead of our saviour's healthcare bill.

Posted by: Rob Kiser on November 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM

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