Palin misleads on aerial hunting

[struggle4progress]

Rogue Fact: Palin misleads on aerial hunting
November 14, 2009 7:13 pm ET

... On Page 327 of Going Rogue: An American Life, in discussing her phone call with a radio host who was impersonating French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Palin writes:

Then Sarkozy started talking about hunting and suggested we get together and hunt from helicopters, which Alaska hunters don't do ...

Fact: Aerial hunting of wolves takes place in Alaska under program supported by Palin

Under Alaska law, "the Board of Game may authorize a predator control program as part of a game management plan that involves airborne or same day airborne shooting." On May 19, 2008, the Anchorage Daily News reported that "

ilot-gunner teams" had "taken 124 wolves," according to the Alaska Division of Wildlife Conservation, as part of "a winter program to kill wolves from aircraft," which the Daily News contrasted with "the 97 wolves gunners took last year." In 2007, Palin introduced a bill to "simplify and clarify Alaska's intensive management law for big game and the state's 'same day airborne hunting' law," which she stated would "give the Board of Game and state wildlife managers the tools they need to actively manage important game herds and help thousands of Alaskan families put food on their tables." According to an August 26, 2007, Daily News article (retrieved from the Nexis database), Palin supported "a $400,000 appropriation to educate Alaskans about the aerial shooting of wolves and efforts to reduce bears in some areas" ...

http://mediamatters.org/research/200911140012

[mwb970]

1. The corrections to Palin's lies may end up being longer than the book.

It sounds like her new diatribe is as fact-free as any other "best selling" right-wing crapfest.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. They put wolves on families's tables??? "Or, you could watch

the wolves play with polar bears."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-Nyt4Bmi8&feature=fvw

[Life Long Dem]

3. Or we can all watch Bambi!

:bounce:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Bambi had a mean streak, not unlike the rabbit in Monty Python's

Search for the Holy Grail.