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Published: 08/7/10

Sarah Palin: Fighting Fact-Checkers Over Taxes from a Fishing Boat

By  Suzi Parker - Politics Daily
Sarah Palin: Fighting Fact-Checkers Over Taxes from a Fishing Boat

Sarah Palin won't let anything drop. Not even when she is on a fishing boat in Homer, Alaska. Early Saturday -- 12.07 a.m. to be exact – Palin launched another round via Facebook in her row with PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the St. Petersburg Times, over Democrats' possible tax increases and the George W. Bush tax cuts expiring at the end of the year. The fight began a week ago when Palin said on Fox News that Democrats could levy new taxes on Americans over a 10-year period. "No, this is going to result in the largest tax increase in U.S. history," Palin told Fox News' Chris ...

Published: 12/24/09

Palin: I'm Not the Biggest Liar of the Year

By  David Corn - Politics Daily
Palin: I'm Not the Biggest Liar of the Year

There's an old story that occasionally makes the rounds in Washington. In the 1970s, a magazine (now long defunct) named New Times reported that Sen. William Scott, a Virginia Republican, had been ranked the "dumbest" senator in a survey conducted by a public interest group. Subsequently, Scott held a press conference to deny the charge -- thereby proving he was pretty darn dumb. After all, he only called more attention to the accusation. Sarah Palin has taken a Scott-like position. Earlier this month, PolitiFact.com, a project of the St. Petersburg Times, awarded Palin the not-so-coveted ...

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