Statement by APD exposes lies about Todd Palin (Updated)

God have mercy on the bearers of false witness
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According to infotainment site TMZ, the Anchorage Police Department has released a statement explaining that although they have seized evidence in a massage parlor sting operation, none of the evidence shows any sort of link between a massage therapist named Shailey Tripp and Todd Palin.

Not only does the APD statement directly refute allegations made in the tabloid National Enquirer and spread across the internet by leftist and gossip web sites, but the police department also revealed that the Enquirer published their lies without even bothering to contact Anchorage police officials to verify their misinformation.

The website Uncoverage.net finds a curious coincidence in the timing of media coverage (what little there is of it) of the APD statement:

"...this attempt to 'bury' this story in the SOTU coverage really reeks of MSM business as usual. Slime the conservative morning noon and night…..bury the retraction on a busy news day."

To which we say, what retractions? So far only TMZ (to their credit) and Uncoverage.net have reported on the APD statement.

The lying, lamestream media just won't stop making things up.

Updates...
Add The Hollywood Gossip to the very short list of websites which are reporting the APD statement and making it clear (crystal) that no link of any kind was found between "massage therapist" Shailey Tripp and Todd Palin, as was erroniously -- and in some cases, viciously -- claimed by the Enquirer.

As regular readers of Texas for Sarah Palin are well aware, we have little regard for gossip columnists and their websites. Most of them are arrogant and high-school-mean-girl snarky, and they couldn't care less about actual facts. They have a slither factor which is right down there in the sewer with moonbat leftist bloggers. When we find exceptions to this rule, however, we will give due credit. In this instance, at least, good on The Hollywood Gossip.

Here's the Anchorage Police Department's statement, via Uncoverage.net:

The Anchorage Police Department investigation and arrest of Shailey Tripp has recently been mischaracterized in internet blogs and in a National Enquirer article. Several errors regarding the investigation and arrest were reported in the Enquirer article (printed and internet versions):

• None of the physical evidence examined by police showed any connection to Wasilla resident Todd Palin and his name did not appear in any of the records seized by APD.
• The investigation of the prostitution operation was initiated by Anchorage Police Department’s Vice Unit responding to internet advertisements, not through information developed from any tips or other persons.
• No rolodex was seized and taken into evidence.
• The National Enquirer has not contacted Anchorage Police Department Public Affairs Unit to fact check its story so their reported “call to Anchorage Police Department” could not have been returned.
• “Bloggers” have had no access to the evidence seized so their linking of evidence in police custody to any other person is incorrect.

- JP

Hundreds brave cold weather for Sarah Palin's Anchorage book signing

The Palins chatted with book-buyers as the line passed
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The line began forming before sunrise in single-digit temperatures at a Costco store in Anchorage for Gov. Palin's book signing Saturday :

Christmas music played as Palin and former "First Dude" Todd sat at a decorated table between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. signing copies of Palin's bestselling "America By Heart." The Palins chatted with book-buyers as the line passed. News photographers and gawkers outside the line angled to snap photos of the Palins.

The event was open only open to Costco members. A photo gallery is here.

Alaska Pride reports that a couple of the usual suspects were among the crowd:

No significant disturbances broke out, although security ejected at least two people. One was a woman wearing a "Worst Governor Ever" shirt, and the other was a known anti-Palin blogger spotted by Todd Palin. Alaska Dispatch confirmed the blogger to be Jesse Lee Griffin, who edits The Immoral Minority. Griffin posted about the encounter, and said things were going well until he told Todd his name. Then Todd's face darkened, he whispered something in Sarah's ear, and Sarah allegedly told Griffin "Oh, you are the one who is trying to destroy my children!" Griffin was then escorted out of the place, sans autograph.

Some fools don't even have enough common sense not to try to mess with a Mama Grizzly's cubs...

- JP

Sarah Palin: Leather-Bound Edition of 'Heart' and AK Book Signing Date

"This was like coming full circle"
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Posted by Gov. Palin on Facebook Thursday night:

Leather-Bound Edition of America By Heart & Alaska Book Signing Date

The leather-bound collectible edition of “America By Heart” is now on sale and can be purchased online here. I was honored by the thoughtful review of the book by Melissa Clouthier, which you can read here.

We had a great time on the book tour. It was wonderful meeting and speaking to so many fellow patriots. “America By Heart” was inspired by my travels around the country meeting great Americans following the “Going Rogue” book tour; so this was like coming full circle. Thank you to everyone who helped out on the tour and to everyone who attended the signings!

Our book signing in Alaska will be on Saturday, December 18, 11-2:00pm at the Costco in Anchorage.

I look forward to seeing you then. In the meantime, please enjoy the following photos a friend took at the Tulsa book signing.

- Sarah Palin

Gov. Sarah Palin at the “America By Heart” book signing in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Nov. 26, 2010. rights reserved

Waiting in line at the “America By Heart” book signing in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, on Nov. 26, 2010. rights reserved

“America By Heart” book signing in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
on Nov. 26, 2010. rights reserved

“America By Heart” book signing in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
on Nov. 26, 2010. rights reserved

Gov. Palin signs a copy of “America By Heart” at the book
signing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Nov. 26, 2010. rights reserved

Piper Palin joins her mother in signing copies of “America By Heart”
at the book signing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Nov. 26, 2010.
rights reserved

- JP

Joe Miller will host 'Change DC' rally in Anchorage Thursday

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The Republican Party's candidate for the U.S. Senate will host a rally Thursday in Anchorage. Joe Miller's campaign calls it the “Change DC” rally, and Sarah Palin and Todd Palin top the list of special guests that also includes former "Northern Exposure" star Janine Turner.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe radio talker Lars Larson and others are scheduled to appear at the rally via teleconferencing.

The event will be held in the Dena’ina Center at 600 W 7th Ave in Anchorage, and they will open the doors at 6 PM Alaska Time. There is no admission fee, but we doubt the Miller campaign will be refusing any donations.

- JP

Nachogate: Investigators say Bristol Palin did not violate the law

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When Bristol Palin's "Dancing with the Stars" partner Mark Ballas took the stage at Rumrunners Old Towne Bar and Grill in Anchorage, it probably never occurred to her that just being there in the audience to listen to Ballas play his music would become an issue.

But her Mother's political enemies are always on the lookout for opportunities, no matter how trivial the matter, to fabricate a faux controversy to try to drive Sarah Palin's poll numbers down. And so they filed a number of complaints with Alaska's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board alleging that 19-year old Bristol broke the law merely by being present in an establishment that serves alcoholic beverages.

As usual, the baseless complaints were propagandized first on leftist websites and picked up by by a national media which doesn't even bother to check out the stories that come from their blogging fellow travelers. And also as usual, after an investigation, the controlling authority, in this case the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, found that the complaints were without merit:

Law permits those under 21 to be inside such establishments if they're accompanied by a parent, spouse or legal guardian over age 21 and are there to eat.

Board Director Shirley Gifford says Palin was with an older guardian, drinking only water and eating nachos and chicken strips. She says there was nothing to indicate any law was broken.

Bristol, and the other Palin offspring, had better be careful to only cross the streets within the borders of painted crosswalks, lest the PDS-afflicted run to the police and demand that they be charged with jaywalking. It seems that they would also be advised to check their pillows and make sure that no tags have been removed. That's a federal crime, you know.

- JP

ADN: Gov. Palin introduces Glenn Beck to enthusiastic Anchorage crowd

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Sarah Palin introduced Glenn Beck at an event in Alaska Saturday night, telling an enthusiastic crowd of thousands that the conservative commentator has been an inspiration to millions of Americans. According to an Anchorage Daily News report, the 2008 vice presidential candidate told Beck that he represents why so many citizens never have to apologize for being American:

Palin and Beck, a popular Fox News Channel personality, took turns recalling what they were doing when they heard of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Palin, who was mayor of Wasilla at the time, said she got a call from the town's police chief about the attacks, then turned on her television.

"It looked unreal that this was happening to our country," she said.

She said she shut down city hall, then went over to her church to pray for the country.

Thousands of fans who paid between $73.75 and $225 for tickets gathered inside the downtown Anchorage center to see the two.

Palin and Beck joked about speculation that they would make an announcement at the event about a possible 2012 presidential run. Beck told Palin that he would not be a candidate, while Palin did not answer a similar question.

"I'd like to announce that in 2012, we will both be ... voting," Beck said.

Christopher Balfe, president of Beck's media company, said Beck will donate his speaking fee from the Saturday night event to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, and Gov. Palin wasn't paid for her appearance.

According to Bloomberg's account of the event, both Beck and Gov. Sarah Palin told their audience that America has grown complacent about protecting itself since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001:

“I fear that we are forgetting what it takes,” Beck told about 4,000 at a convention center in Anchorage. “How do we not make the same mistake again?”

Palin, a former Alaska governor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, pointed the blame at President Barack Obama.

“It starts from the top,” she said. “Those who kind of set the tone in our country that would lead us towards a complacency that is very, very, very dangerous. I fear that is why we are seeing the patterns we’re seeing right now, especially over the last 20 months.”

The Anchorage event, on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, came two weeks after Beck and Palin appeared together at the “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall in Washington, where they urged hundreds of thousands gathered there to embrace traditional American values.

The Aug. 28 rally was held on the 47th anniversary and on the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. While the timing drew criticism from civil rights leaders, Beck said it was a coincidence the event was held on that date.

Beck, 46, and Palin, a contributor to News Corp.’s Fox News, are both stars of the Tea Party movement, a loose-knit coalition of voters seeking limits on government spending, taxes and debt.

Palin, 46, is scheduled to speak Sept. 17 at a Republican Party event in Iowa, the state that holds the first presidential nominating contest.

After she gave a brief speech at a Sept. 11 commemoration in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, several in the audience approached her to encourage her to run for president in 2012.

“Bless your heart,” she told one man.

Palin said she was entertained by media speculation before the Anchorage event that she was going to announce a presidential bid with Beck at her side. If she did make such an announcement, Palin said it would be on an Alaska radio show.

“I laughed about some big 2012 announcement because, hey, if there’s going to be some big national announcement, I am going to do it where it is most worthy,” she said. “It’s going to happen on the Bob & Mark Show.”

Beck later asked Palin whether she planned to run for president. “Are you going to run, Glenn?” she responded, without answering his question.

Beck, 46, said the Anchorage event was not specifically designed for Sept. 11. Organizers had originally considered Sept. 4, and decided against it because they did not want to compete with the Alaska State Fair.

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One woman was removed from the hall after she shouted during the program, “Both of you are imbeciles.” Audience members were scanned for weapons as they entered the building.

ADN's photo gallery of the event is here. The leftist Alaska Dispatch has a more detailed -- but condescendingly elitist and quite snarky -- story about the event here. The AP's article is here. KTUU's coverage is here and here. That "large group of protesters" KTUU focused on in its unbalanced video package was a relatively small band of what ADN pegged as "several dozen," while the crowd of ticket holders numbered over 4,000.

- JP

No, media tools, Glenn Beck and Gov. Palin are NOT making money off 9/11 event

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We expect hysterical leftist sites to slam Sarah Palin for actions she never took, for words she never spoke and for being paid fees she neither asked for nor received. The left never even blinks when it tells a lie about her. But they couldn't care less if they use lies to attack the governor.

That why it's no surprise to see garbage like this from Washington Post left wing columnist Jonathan Capehart:

"Restoring America" apparently wasn't enough for Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. They now appear to be cashing in on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Politico reports that tickets for their Anchorage, Alaska, event this Saturday range between $65 and $115. If you pony up $200 you get VIP seats.

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If building a Muslim community center dedicated to human understanding and tolerance two blocks from Ground Zero "stabs hearts," then how should taking money from people at an event "to commemorate 9/11" be described? Disrespectful. Distatesful. Shameful. Greedy. Narcissistic. Did I leave any adjectives out?

But this statement from a Beck spokesman catches Capehart and a lot of other lying leftists with their adjectives, not to mention their hubris, down around their ankles:

“Glenn had always intended to donate the speaking fee from the event on Saturday, September 11th in Alaska to Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Governor Palin is not and was never going to receive a fee for introducing Glenn at this event.”

To his credit, Capeheart at least posted an update after the fact to reflect the that neither Beck nor Gov. Palin will be making money off of the Anchorage event. He should have also included an apology, because his column was a particularly nasty piece of leftist manure. But at least he posted the correction. Few, if any, nutroots leftist websites will follow suit. The truth just doesn't fit their Haterade-fueled narrative.

We expect a little more, however, from conservatives. We expect conservatives not to jump the gun and simply rush into print with "me too" pieces that just echo what the leftists say when they cast dispersion on Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. Like Gov. Palin says, "keep your powder dry" and get the facts before posting accusatory pieces that make other conservatives look bad.

- JP

Sarah Palin: Join Glenn Beck and me Saturday at the Dena’ina Center

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Gov. Palin went on Facebook today to make it official. She and Glenn Beck will appear together in Anchorage this Saturday:

Glenn Beck Visits Alaska on 9/11

Glenn’s coming to the Last Frontier! I hope my fellow Alaskans (and anyone visiting from Outside) will join me this Saturday, September 11, 2010, at Anchorage’s Dena’ina Center at 8:00 p.m. Glenn Beck will be there – you won’t want to miss it. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.

We can count on Glenn to make the night interesting and inspiring, and I can think of no better way to commemorate 9/11 than to gather with patriots who will “never forget.” Hope to see you there!

- Sarah Palin

- JP

9/11 in Anchorage: Glenn Beck and... Sarah Palin?

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Glenn Beck is playing coy about his "vacation" in Alaska, but Anchorage outlets have tickets on sale for a Sept. 11 Beck event at the Dena'ina Center. On his radio show, Beck said :

"I'm going to give a speech up there, and Sarah's going to give a speech too."

h/t: TheRightScoop

- JP

FRC says Sarah Palin to appear at Change Point Church in Anchorage, Thursday Aug. 27

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An e-mail from FRC's Tony Perkins:
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Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:25 AM
Subject: Join Gov. Sarah Palin this Thursday in Anchorage



Greetings from FRC!

We wanted to share with you, our supporters, the following alert from your state Family Policy Council. If you have already received this message from them, please simply disregard this. We did, however, want to help make certain that you, your friends, and your neighbors would be aware of this very critical legislative information. We encourage you to join your Family Policy Council in making your voice heard today!

Please join Governor SARAH PALIN & nationally known conservative STAR
PARKER Thursday, August 27th 7:30pm at Change Point Church Anchorage

The Alaskans for Parental Rights campaign was developed to return to parents the right to oversee abortion decisions their underage teenage daughters might be unfortunately considering. Because of an out of touch Alaska Supreme Court and a legislature that has been unable to vote on the issue, Alaska is currently one of only 10 states without a parental notification law on the books. In November of 2007, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that a state law the legislature overwhelmingly passed back in 1997 allowing parents the right to agree or deny abortions their minor teenager daughters might be considering was unconstitutional. Despite parents having to provide consent for ear piercings, tattoos, field trips and even obtaining a simple aspirin in school, children in Alaska can now have abortions without the consent, guidance or even knowledge of their parents.

The goal of the Alaskans for Parental Rights campaign is to obtain at least 32,734 signatures statewide to bring this issue back to the people on the 2010 August Primary Election.

Please join other pro-family, parental rights supporters for a public signing event where Governor Palin will officially become the first petition signer. Star Parker will provide a national perspective on the parental notification issue. Come and join the celebration and to sign the petition yourself!

The Alaskans for Parental Rights Campaign is a project of Alaska Family Action, the 501(c)4 lobbying arm of Alaska Family Council. For more info, go to http://www.alaskansforparentalrights.org/
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Thank you for joining this collaborative effort to protect and defend Faith, Family, and Freedom in your state!

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President
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h/t: Karen Allen

Update: It seems that either a scheduling issue has come up or someone is spreading FALSE information concerning Sarah accepting an invitation for this fundraiser. Either way, SarahPac is in dire need of someone to step up and admit the problems. Or possible do a schedule for upcoming anything?

- u

Thousands picnic with Gov. Palin in Anchorage

Thousands of people showed up for Sarah Palin's last governor's picnic in Anchorage Saturday. Officials had planned for a crowd of 8,000. Sean Cockerham's ADN report is here, and KTUU's is here.



Here's some AP raw video from the event:



Bloggers for Sarah Palin's own Shane Vander Hart has dubbed this "Palin’s Liberation Weekend" and posted this at Caffeinated Thoughts. Tom Lamb posted this at It's a Kwazy Life. Adrienne (The Dallas Adrienne, not the NY Adrienne) has some good picnic pics posted at Sarah Palin 2012.

- JP

Gov. Palin to address Reagan rally June 3

Gov. Sarah Palin and Michael Reagan will speak at a rally celebrating Ronald Reagan Wednesday, June 3 at 7:30 PM in the Anchorage Center for the Performing Arts.

The event is sponsored by Action for America, a pro-strong on defense, pro-free enterprise group. Conservatives, libertarian Republicans and Libertarian Party members are expected to attend.

Ticket information available at Blues Central, 825 W Northern Lights Blvd in Anchorage.

h/t: Libertarian Republican

- JP