There they go again: Politico distorts Palin with lying headline

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Who writes the headlines at Politico? If authors are responsible for furnishing the headlines for the articles they write, then Andy Barr deserves a black eye.

Check out Politico's latest hit job on Sarah Palin:

"Sarah Palin on Fox says she thought Iraq was behind 9/11"

No, she never said that, as a transcript of that portion of her appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" taken directly from the video clip clearly shows:

BOR: Was it a lie that you thought Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11?

SHP: You know what, on that, I did talk a lot to Steve Schmidt about the history of the war and about where, perhaps, the 9/11 terrorists came from, and could there have been any connection to Saddam.

BOR: Okay, so that's not a lie, but it --

SHP: So I admit that I asked questions about it --

BOR: But you didn't -- you weren't blaming 9/11 on Saddam?

SHP: No. No. No, no. And --

BOR: Okay.

SHP: Yeah.

Now, watch the clip for yourself, and compare the transcription with the way Barr misquoted Gov. Palin's answers and tood them out of context in his hit piece. "Lamestream" media, indeed!

Further, asking questions about some is not tantamount to believing that thing. It simply means that one has questions about it.

Despite claims to the contrary, Saddam had some ties to terrorists, including Al Qaeda -- the group responsible for 9/11 -- as was widely reported here, here, here, here, here, here and here, just to name a few. It's no small wonder, then, that more than just a few people, Sarah Palin included, had questions about possible links between Saddam and 9/11.

Asking questions about Saddam's ties to 9/11 are a far cry from thinking that the late dictator was responsible for it, as Politico's disingenuous headline more than just implies.

Politico continues to engage in the most irresponsible hack media tactics. Even considering the word "journalism" has lost its meaning in recent years, we wouldn't give Politico enough credit to label what it does as journalism. Rather, it is simply pure partisan prevarication.

- JP