{"id":3887,"date":"2008-10-11T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-11T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2008-10-11T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-11T13:32:55","slug":"spinning-troopergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Troopergate"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I wanted to keep up with the Sarah Palin “Troopergate” issue, I read Mata Harley<\/a> at Flopping Aces<\/a> who has covered this thing from the day Ms. Palin was nominated to be the VP candidate, mainly because the media’s coverage of this borders on useless. So yesterday, the 263-page report on the investigation was released and it actually cleared the Governor on the main charge of firing her pubic safety commissioner. But here’s how the newspapers are headlining the story.<\/p>\n

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The Washington Times;<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post;<\/p>\n

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The Wall Street Journal;<\/p>\n

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The Miami Herald;<\/p>\n

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The story is actually that the panel says she abused her position to get her former brother-in-law fired, but she didn’t when she fired her public safety commissioner. Each of the above stories admit as much, but look at the headlines they chose. For example, the Washington Post<\/a> put the actual findings of the investigator in the middle of the story;<\/p>\n

Branchflower investigated the charges for six weeks, interviewing 19 people, after he was hired by the Joint Legislative Council. He concluded that while Monegan’s rebuff of the entreaties played a role in his firing, other concerns such as budgetary issues and trooper vacancies also were factors.<\/p>\n

“I find that, although Walt Monegan’s refusal to fire Trooper Michael Wooten was not the sole reason he was fired by Governor Sarah Palin, it was likely a contributing factor to his termination as Commissioner of Public Safety,” Branchflower wrote. “In spite of that, Governor Palin’s firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis is mine. But which do you think the chatter from the Left will be…the headline or the facts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I wanted to keep up with the Sarah Palin “Troopergate” issue, I read Mata Harley … Spinning Troopergate<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-mccain","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}