There have already been a lot of people talking about this (Allahpundit at Hot Air, MIchele Malkin, Laura W., Anchor Rising, Greg Pollowtiz at NRO Media Blog, and John McCormack at the Weekly Standard Blog), but since I decided to make PDS Watch a feature, I can’t exactly ignore it.
To hear Paul Kane of the Washington Post tell it, Governor Palin “used her line-item veto to slash funding for a state program benefiting teen mothers in need of a place to live.”
Trouble is, if you look at the actual document in question, you’ll see that Palin actually amended funds for Covenant House, which is actually “the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing shelter and other services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth” (emphasis added).
More to the point, if one actually looks at the document in question, one finds that the funds were for an expansion of CH, not regular funding. See, Alaska passes its operating budget and its capital budget in two separate bills, and what Kane found was the capital budget vetoes.
As for CH itself, the expansion certainly wasn’t stopped.
Governor Palin can take comfort in one thing, though. The Post was similarly awful in its reporting of Governor Bob Ehrlich, only to endorse him in his re-election bid in 2006. Of course, Ehrlich also lost, but I digress . . .
