Going Rogue with the Facts
Andrew Sullivan is having a field day with the various fact checking issues in Sarah Palin's book. My recent favorite is this gem found by the Huffington Post:
Perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden. As the epigram to Chapter Three, "Drill, Baby, Drill," Palin assigns the following remarks to the Hall of Fame hoops coach:Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their lives.
Only the quote wasn't by John Wooden. It was written by a Native American activist named John Wooden Legs in an essay entitled "Back on the War Ponies," which appeared in a left-wing anthology, We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May, Clint Willis, and James W. Loewen.
That is rich...
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Somebody was dipping into the ol' Bartlett's whilst writing her memoir. Ironic, no?
Posted by: Little Timmy | December 1, 2009 10:46 AM