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Old 09-07-2008, 07:56 AM   #46 (permalink)
jim schmidt
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Originally Posted by F&D View Post
The link to The Smoking Gun has a copy of the document Scott Richter filed to request his divorce records be sealed, for reasons of wanting to protect his family's privacy.

TSG asserts that they went through the entire 98-page divorce document and the Palins were not mentioned in it at all other than in this sealing request. No mention of an affair.

Now, I have not seen Mr. Richter's full divorce document on the web anywhere, but IMO this is entirely appropriate. It may not have been sealed, but nobody deserved to have such a private matter splashed all over the internet either.

If this is a lie, it would be VERY easy to prove, no? There either is mention of an affair with Sarah Palin in it, or there isn't. There is not.

I just love the double-standard of proof you apply. Since when have you ever required this degree of substantive proof for an allegation that supports with your agenda?
Well nothing you've written here actually proves the assertions in the blog, but you've actually gone a long way toward using The Smoking Gun as a source. Since you didn't -- and since it seems to be a much better choice -- I'm assuming this is post-use research right?

This is exactly the kind of vetting you ought to be doing prior to subjecting us to some random blog. Still, it seems well short of the claim that

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Another Palin smear bites the dust
Here's your actual headline: "No mention of Palin in Divorce Filing?"

You have to begin to believe that truth matters.
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