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Originally posted by Anne Bryant-Hamon:
Lo, I think you're being biased in your opinion and what are you doing posting these biased articles against Palin? You really ought to give her the benefit of the doubt. After all, you've never actually talked to any of these people, never been to Alaska, never attended her church. So it looks like you are just trying to smear this poor woman! Gosh!
Just in case you wondered what it is like communicating with you, I thought I'd give you a taste of yourself...
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The information I posted was factual, Anne. I don't have to go to Alaska or attend a church or talk to the people there to post a link to a state mandated legality. I didn't smear Sarah Palin, I reported a law, a
real law, not something which was venomous or misrepresented or mis-reported, which was enacted in the State of Alaska which was instrumental in changing a law specific to the town she was mayor of. It was not slander, it was not gossip, it was a
fact.
That seems to be the part you are not grasping. There is a difference between a personal opinion such as "that man is an animal" and a factual statement such as "The State of Alaska recently passed a law which prohibits a city or township to charge a victim of a crime with the cost of processing the evidence of the crime" and citing an article in an Alaskan paper which states Wasilla was the one hold-out town.
I'll admit that inferring that if Sarah Palin had been the governor of Alaska instead of the mayor of Wasilla at the time that the legislative bill was brought to her desk it might not have been signed into law may have been a deliberate attempt to pass off an opinion as fact. But really, in my own defense, what I did was ask people to think about it and draw their own conclusions - not an outright "she would have refused to sign the bill" as if it was fact rather than conjuncture.
Thanks for the point-out, though. The thing is, I talk to people who expect the truth all the time and I really try not to say anything which can't be backed up. And if it happens that my information is faulty, as it sometimes does, I rectify it and apologize. (Witness the exchanges between Jerry and myself right here in this thread.)
Lo