Thought this might clear up some of the BS.

By Maxim Lott
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been subjected to an intense amount of media and public scrutiny since she was named as John McCain’s vice presidential pick one week ago. Many of the attacks have come in the form of unconfirmed reports on the Internet. Among them:

1) Palin “Joined a Secessionist Political Party”
The Charge: Unsubstantiated Internet reports insisted Palin was once a member of the Alaska Independence Party, which critics call a secessionist political movement and supporters say is dedicated to seeking greater state control over federal lands across Alaska.
The Facts: Palin has been a registered Republican since 1982. There is no record of her ever being a member of the AIP, or any party but the GOP. Palin’s husband has been a member of the AIP in the past, but since 2002 has been a registered independent.
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2) Palin Supported a “Nazi Sympathizer”
The Charge: “Palin was a supporter of Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or, as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer,” Obama Florida spokesman Mark Bubriski was quoted as saying in a Miami Herald article.
The Facts: While mayor of Wasilla, Palin wore a Buchanan button during the sometimes presidential candidate’s 1999 visit. But Palin actually supported Steve Forbes in 2000, and served as a co-chair on his Alaska campaign.
In the weeks after the 1999 report of her wearing the Buchanan button, Palin said: “When presidential candidates visit our community, I am always happy to meet them. I’ll even put on their button when handed one as a polite gesture of respect. … The article may have left your readers with the perception that I am endorsing this candidate, as opposed to welcoming his visit to Wasilla.”
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3) Palin “Wants Creationism Taught in School”
The Charge: Palin opposes the teaching of evolution, and would mandate the teaching of creationism in the state’s public schools.
The Facts: Palin said during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign that she would not push the state Board of Education to add creation-based alternatives to the state’s required curriculum, or look for creationism advocates when she appointed board members. She has kept this pledge, according to the Associated Press.
Palin has spoken in favor of classroom discussions of creationism, in some cases. “I don’t think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum,”Palin told the Anchorage Daily News in a 2006 interview.


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4) Palin “Was Nearly Recalled” While Mayor
The Charge: Palin was so controversial as mayor of Wasilla that she was almost recalled by a popular voter movement.
The Facts: The Wasilla City Council considered but never took up a recall motion after she fired a longtime police chief, who subsequently brought a lawsuit. A citizen’s group dropped their recall bid, and a judge ruled Palin had the authority to fire the chief.
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5) Palin “Opposes Sex Education”

The Charge: Palin opponents say she supported the end of all sex education in public schools. In light of her daughter’s presumably unplanned teen pregnancy, this has been a particularly well discussed Internet topic.
The Facts: “The explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support,” Palin wrote in a 2006 questionnaire distributed among gubernatorial candidates. Palin favors abstinence-based sex education programs.

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6) “This Picture Proves Palin is …”
The Charge: A slew of fake, Photoshopped or misdated photographs on the Internet purport to show Palin in any number of embarrassing or compromising poses. One photo claimed to show Palin standing poolside, wearing an American flag-themed bikini, toting a rifle with telescopic sight.
The Facts: The various photos are being discredited and shown to be fake on a number of Web sites. The original of the so-called bikini shot, probably the best-known of the pictures, was shown to have been taken of another woman, with Palin’s head Photoshopped above the body.

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7) Palin is the grandmother, and not the mother, of Trig Palin
The Charge: The most salacious rumor of all, this theory holds that Palin did not give birth to her son Trig in April, and was actually covering up for her daughter, Bristol.
The Facts: There are a number of photographs showing an apparently pregnant Sarah Palin, as well as a number of published eyewitness accounts of her pregnancy. These include First Lady Laura Bush, who says she spoke with a pregnant Palin at a governor’s conference in February. An assignment manager for KTVA news in Anchorage, Cherie Shirey, has also been quoted saying: “We worked with Governor Palin many times in 2008. Our reporters worked her on location and in the studio and I worked with her myself. She was definitely pregnant. You could see it in her belly and her face. The whole idea that Sarah Palin wasn’t pregnant with Trig is completely, absolutely absurd.”
The McCain campaign, in an apparent effort to counteract the rumors, announced last weekend that Bristol Palin is five months pregnant, which indicated she would have become pregnant before Trig was born.

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on point 5 there you failed. the stick your head in the sand approach obviously dose not work just look at her daughter 17 unmarried and going to be a mom by the end of the year. ive seen some of the "sex ed abstinent" programs and it took all i had to not be laughing so hard as to be incopasitaded i mean really grade A fiction going on there

Abstinence includes the teaching of birth control. It is sex ed after all. They just don't teach ridiculous things like...how to give a BJ.

Some folks actually read and understand ...so it works for them. While others slip through the cracks, and others just can't read English too good.

BTW...my friend has an 8 year old daughter. He and his wife were "fixed" years before her birth. The pregnancy sparked a brawl you would not believe....DNA testing followed. They're still married.

Yeh I know...its the Huffington

And you don't give the younger generation much credit for understanding the process....sad.

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They can teach kids any thing they want and some are still going to fool around. Nature is going to take it's course no matter what parents say. It happens in rich, poor , and middle class families every day. Hell I imagine if they went back to the old chastity belt these kids would find a way on line to get around or through it. Abstinence is definitely the best, but there is no one size fits all for human emotions.

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Duker ill agree with part of that abstinence is best and teens are going to fool around but only teaching abstinence leaves many teens ill informed on how to be safe/lower the risk of pregnancy in many of the abstinence only programs they even go as far as stating that condoms dont work and are a wast of money

A good example is my wifes niece. Comes from a mid western, farming community, church attending...twice a week....family. Father is a deacon in the church. She meets a fellow in church. One of the quietest kids I have ever met. They both graduated high school 2 years ago, but, her very first boyfriend, and his very first girlfriend. My wife gets a call one night that she is pregnant. She just about fell off the chair. Family is all upset, oh my God...not Elizabeth!!!!! Well, she has the baby...right after she was born, Dad gets shipped off to Iraq...baby just turned 1 year old last week, and she is now a bundle of joy for the entire family. Dad is still in Iraq, supposed to come home in January.

The news that she was pregnant, was a complete shock to everyone...all that went away after the baby was born. So no matter what type of family kids qrow up in, or how they mature...they can be as pure as the driven snow...you can drill it into their heads every night, if they want to have sex without protection, they are going to do it. I would bet it was the 1st time for both of them. You can't just lock them into a room every night.

A friend of mine has a teenage daughter, and I heard about what they are teaching in sex ed these days, including giving bj's. This girl's sex ed teacher even brought in a dildo. That's taking sex ed too far. No matter what is taught in sex ed, the kids are going to learn more from their friends and on the internet anyway. You put a group of co-ed teens in a room to teach them about sex, and they are not paying much attention because they are all embarrassed as hell to have an adult talking about this stuff in front of them.

As I have said elsewhere on this topic, parents may think they know where their teenage kids are all the time, but if they want to, they will find 80 million different ways to lie about where they are going to be. I know, I used about 40 million of them myself. You can have the best relationship with you kids, and they will still lie about where they are sometimes.

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Not my kids.

My beautiful, wonderful 18-year-old son is living proof that condoms don't always work. Lukily I was an adult and married during said failure, but if I were 16 I would definitely not stake my future on them, which is what they are teaching kids to do when giving them out like candy and teaching they then provide "safe sex." No sex outside of a loving, monogamous adult relationship is truly ever "safe" for the parties involved or the children potentially produced.

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