Comments on: Surprise, Surprise: Palin Caught in Another Lie

By: Despite Improvements, Rape Kit Billing Problems Persist : The Curvature

Despite Improvements, Rape Kit Billing Problems Persist : The Curvature — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:31:14 +0000

[...] the 2008 presidential race, due to the revelation that while Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, rape victims were billed the $1,200 fee that should have been paid by the government. Since then, the media has substantially backed off [...]

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:14:22 +0000

Samhita at Feministinghas just posted about how Palin's not the only one.

By: An Obama Ad About Rape? : The Curvature

An Obama Ad About Rape? : The Curvature — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:07:00 +0000

[...] thrilled about it. Yes, even if it’s a mere attack ad against Sarah Palin, because the rape kit thing absolutely deserves to be attacked, as does her atrocious position on [...]

By: sappari, zenzen » Blog Archive » In which it is apparently your own damn fault if you’re an Alaskan rape victim

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:32:06 +0000

[...] H/t Feministe, The Curvature. [...]

By: brenna

brenna — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:57:09 +0000

Thought you’d like to see this… when you get back online. Good luck with that. buh.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOTk11gvqDAgD0cY3i4WjI_2YOxwD937N8L80

By: Lemur

Lemur — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:18:04 +0000

Nick, you’re right. But that’s so damn frustrating I just want to pound my head on my desk.
It’s so hard to wrap my head around the fact that people still think that way. This isn’t the Victorian Age, we’re supposed to know better. There’s another article about it over at Shakesville; it’d be funny if it weren’t so damn wrong.

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:15:56 +0000

But seriously, how can any woman okay something like that?

By reasoning that only sluts get raped, not decent women – and thus rape is an aspect of slutty lifestyles, and paying to investigate rape is tantamount to funding/supporting sluts. Or possibly a parallel argument about stupidity/intelligence.

So to answer your second question, yes, she is too out of touch to realise how fucked up that is.

And if anyone feels like telling me how this is an unwarranted assumption, no it’s not – it’s a warranted assumption, based on the fact that only in such twisted worldviews can policies like this be justified.

By: Lemur

Lemur — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:38:23 +0000

I read about charging rape victims over at Shakesville and I was furious. This is a slap in the face of rape victims.
And thinking about it, I’m not surprised that Palin lied about it.
But seriously, how can any woman okay something like that? Is she that out of touch that she didn’t realize how fucked up that is?

By: jovan byars

jovan byars — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:36:08 +0000

I’m not surprised that Palin lied about her involvement in billing rape victims. Just like she lied about Troopergate. Just like she lied about trying to ban books from the Wasilla, Alaska library. Just like she lied about how she opposed the now-infamous “bridge to nowhere” in 2006.

That is yet another reason why John McCain and Sarah Palin must be defeated at all costs.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:54:41 +0000

When is Obama going to make an ad about this? There’s no shame in “going negative” if you’re actually exposing the truth (unlike McCain). McCain and Palin would be horrible leaders for women, and the public needs to know that.