The Boston Globe is the latest media outlet to peddle the allegation that Wasilla made rape victims pay for rape kits. It is a lie, and it’s been debunked so thoroughly that the Globe has no excuse. It was never Wasilla policy to charge for rape kits, and it never happened. Just to pile on, here’s two more debunkings. (The latter one also traces the the origin of the lie. You’ll never guess.)
We’re beyond the normal operation of media failure here. The Boston Globe is knowingly printing an outright lie. (Spare me the protestation that they might merely be making a mistake. The Globe is a news organization; of course they know.) What we see here is the Globe is running a dishonest attack ad, on the editorial page, for free. As Glenn Reynolds put it, they are simply functioning as an arm of the Obama campaign.
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