Palin to Sue Everybody
Now she’s going to sue everyone who, as this blog has, wrote about her little problem with her house and the sports complex down the road that got built on Wasilla’s dime at exactly the same time. Here’s what she had to say about the reaction to her resignation, or at least the reaction that held that she resigned because a bigger scandal was about to break:
Almost immediately afterwards, several unscrupulous people have asserted false and defamatory
allegations that the “real” reasons for Governor Palin’s resignation stem from an alleged
criminal investigation pertaining to the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex. This
canard was first floated by Democrat operatives in September 2008 during the national
campaign and followed up by sympathetic Democratic writers.1 It was easily rebutted then as
one of many fabrications about Sarah Palin. Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism
apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are
repeated as fact.
A good measure of whether the housegate story is true will be whether or not she actually tries to sue anyone. Why? Because in order to sue someone over this she’s going to have to offer up tangible proof that her story is true and that the other party published a falsehood. If you’re actually waiting for her to file suit we have one piece of advise: don’t hold your breath.
