This media bias:
The Associated Press: “AP Investigation: Palin got zoning aid, gifts.”
Aha!
Republican Sarah Palin received a sweetheart deal on her $2 million mansion from a Syrian slumlord who was later convicted of buying off politicians — with the mortgage financed by an Iraqi-born billionaire who was convicted of shady business deals in the oil industry.
Oh wait. That was Democrat Barack Obama.
Mrs. Palin got a zoning variance and a facial massage.
WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - Though Sarah Palin depicts herself as a pit bull fighting good-old-boy politics, in her years as mayor she and her friends received special benefits more typical of small-town politics as usual, an Associated Press investigation shows.
When Palin needed to sell her house during her last year as Wasilla mayor, she got the city to sign off on a special zoning exception—and did so without keeping a promise to remove a potential fire hazard.
She gladly accepted gifts from merchants: A free “awesome facial” she raved about in a thank-you note to a spa. The “absolutely gorgeous flowers” she received from a welding supply store. Even fresh salmon to take home.
Fair and balanced.
If fair means unfair and if balance means imbalance.
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