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Originally Posted by andy764383
What's missing in all this is if it was ever a real issue to begin with? How many rape victims, if any, did this actually apply to in Wasilla? As far as I can tell, at this point, this was philosophical more than anything.
Furthermore, the USA article is incomplete and illustrates bias in the following methods used:
1. Omitting Context
3. Controlling Focus
4. Creating Myths
5. Circular Reasoning
7. Misleading Headlines
Media Bias - The Tricks and Techniques
That's just for starters. We don't know what laws were on the books in Wasilla at the time. We don't know what efforts were made to change them. We don't know how much support there was for changing them. We don't know what statements Palin may have made in other venues or articles that were conveniently omitted to create a controversy to sell newspapers. We don't know much of anything in fact.
What we have is incomplete quotes from a former political opponent.
Amanda Carpenter has this on Townhall.com:
It remains to be seen how this latest "controversy" plays out, but it's far too soon to pass judgment. Like the other so called issues, this may also be a whole bunch of nothing. Not that it will stop biased people from using it for political advantage. |
Out of curiosity, why is your numbered list missing numbers?
And yes, I would agree that more information would certainly be helpful in terms of understanding the full story of what the reasoning was, etc. I'm not sure how likely we are to get any up front explanation from Palin on the matter, however, as it seems like a hot potato.
One thing that occurs to me is that this law might have been on the books for a long time, and there was no specific event during her tenure to make it relevant. Still, the existence of the law is somewhat disturbing on its face.
Edit: Another thing I just thought of that is troubling is that this law absolutely discourages women from reporting rapes. So, even if no rapes were reported (which according to OSB's link, they were), we would have no way of knowing how many occurred but were not reported in order to avoid the personal expense of reporting the crime.