A 9/7/08 Washington Post article, "Palin's Family Has Always Held a Place in Her Politics," purportedly recounts Sarah Palin's statement to Sgt. Ron Wall on 5/2/05 regarding how she learned of her then brother-in-law's alleged threat against her father. Given that both Sgt. Wall's interview notes and transcription of the recording of that interview are online (links below), either the Post writers failed to properly research available primary sources and relied instead on available canned synopses or simply decided to rewrite the facts.
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After a panicked phone call from Molly suggesting that Wooten was on the verge of violence, Palin and her son Track drove to their relatives' house and peered through a window to watch an argument. Describing the scene later to a police investigator, Palin said: "Mike said that 'if your dad helps you through this divorce, he will eat an f'ing bullet.'
Even a cursory read of the investigating officer's notes and transcript of the 5/2/05 interview and 8/8/05 re-interview reveals that Palin stated that she heard the threat over an open phone line, that she left her son at home to continue listening to the exchange between her sister and Wooten and she alone drove over to her sister's house to observe what was going on through a window. She indicated that things had calmed down after 15 minutes and she left to go to a meeting. When asked by the investigator why she didn't tell her father of Wooten's threat for two weeks, Palin replied that it was "because Wooten had no reason to shoot her father."
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I post this diary because I am unbearably sick and tired of being fed stories by members of the media who are either so biased that they report fiction as fact or are too lazy to get their stories straight and I call on the Washington Post to acknowledge its error and correct the facts.