CNN Covers Palin Rape Kit Story (VIDEO)

Multiple newspapers have confirmed reports in blogs that Sarah Palin's town charged rape victims for their forensic exams while she was mayor. Now CNN has covered the story, interviewing the sponsor of a law aimed at ending the practice. He finds it hard to believe this practice could go on without the mayor's knowledge. Watch:

Comments

[MindyIsHot]

McCain is a sick man...

http://myrealitytelevision.com/2008/09/mccain-versus-obama-immigration-is-the-us-the-melting-pot/

[maggsa]

Give Palin the boot. How insulting - a woman gets raped and she then has to pay for the medical. Why is the victim paying over and over again? Palin will set woman and civilisation backwards. She is not fit to be lead and you can tell because she hasn't been around to look after her own family. Wake up America, Palin is worse that Hurricane Katrina, she leaves a trail of destruction.

[DesertLight]

So you are assuming then that everyone who makes that claim is honest, right?

[ricitizen]

Law enforcement assumes they have a possible crime. They have the alleged victim examined. they ask the victims questions and try to determine if there is evidence to corroborate the story. It is like that with any battery victim, whether the suspected crime is rape or other. We don't ask the victim to pay for the gathering of evidence. That's why we pay taxes for the law enforcement.

[juevosrancheros]

Unnecessary assumption. In any policy like this, you realize that not everyone may be telling the truth; nonetheless, it's not reason enough to withholding funding for all alleged rape victims.
We know that some families game the welfare system. Does that mean that because a few abuse it, we should shut down the welfare system?
Didn't think so.

[mcpalin]

Well, if they're lying, and you can prove it, then charge them for it AFTER THE FACT, along with filing a false police report. Prove it in court before you charge them.

[amaycatbaker]

And remember, if that woman is pregnant, she must carry the rapists baby to term. Palin is pro-birth even in the case of rape and incest.

[hmmmmmer]

Any man that would have allowed this to go on would be savaged by the not only the media, but the opposition.

If women are going to vote for this person they had better be ready to take more than a few steps backward into the dark ages. Not only has she shown some lack of care about women, her running mate McCain is a real peach when it comes to women's issues, just ask his wives.

[KiwisCanFly]

It is so reprehensible.

Palin is being managed totally. Touted as an example for the progress of women in society and kept at arms length from freely speaking to the media or even the public, coached on what to say, monitored and supervised Just like she is a piece of chattel.

Don't feel sorry for her, she is allowing herself to be exploited. Just like she expolited rape victims in Wasilla.

[nowalnuts]

I hear Palin defending herself right now. First : "I helped rape victims!" Then: Rapists are taxpayers and I won't waste their money! Then, finally, "Obama charged my dear Alaskan Women for Rape Kits! and there is no excuse for that!"

And the cult of Insane America will believe her and thank the their Lord that Obama is not the second coming of Christ.

[kellygrrrl]

I love the tr0//s on CNN site defending her

"oh, she probably didn't know about it."

yeah, that makes it all better!

This is Inexcusable and Cruel and Barbaric!!!!!

[DoTheMath]

That town was so small when she was mayor, mark my words, if somebody stubbed his toe at 8:05 AM, at 8:32 AM someone would be grumbling about being the last person in town to find out.

[booksnmore4you]

Here's the skinny on why a town would not provide these kits.

It provides a DISINCENTIVE to report rape.

So why would a town be interested in THAT?

Because towns are required to report the crimes that incur therein, including the number of rapes. And this info is public info. Here is the info for Wasilla: http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=103

And when a town has high incidences of rape, its REPUTATION suffers.

When its reputation suffers, BUSINESSES suffer because people are less likely to move to the town and become taxpayers and supporters of businesses.

So here we have an effort to bolster the perception of a town, Wasilla, ON THE BACKS OF RAPE VICITIMS.

Do I even have to say how utterly reprehensible this is?

[KiwisCanFly]

Palin is some piece of work!

[amazinggrace]

Rape victims paying for their own rape kits....................WHAT IS WRONG with people who do this. Rape is a horrible violation and then these victims are violated once again by the very law that should be protecting them.

Sarah knew and Sarah approved even if she isn't the sharpest TOOL in that TOOL shed. Shame on her, and shame on the Wasilla Chief of Police.

[ricitizen]

Myself and so many of us have been posting about this for weeks. It was in the newspapers in Alaska. It was easy to find. But the msm? When did they know? How could they not know? Why are they bringing this truth out now after weeks of selling us her lies? Why has the fact the Biden has championed on more issues on behave of woman then anyone else in the senate not been given any attention about his good work ,while moosegirl is tabbed as the one with the most "executive experience?" I want this to be asked about in the debate! I want to hear her explanation for this. Of course, there is not explanation. There is no excuse.

[ccoppe]

This situation bears the typical modus operandi of Palin:

put your chief bureaucrat out there to carry your water for you on controversial or unlawful acts;

say nothing (except on your private email account) - and;

when things blow up, use all the tools in your "plausible deniability" handbag to heap blame on the creature who did your bidding.

Bottom line: She is going to have a hell of a time getting anything done here at home after Obama, Biden and the American people send her packing on Nov. 4th.

Obama/Biden Nov. 4th!

[dutchess2]

psssst!

Take a deep breath, and really look at what is before your eyes...

Rape kits that the victims have to pay for in order to stand any chance of seeing justice is just a tip of the iceburg.

Sarah Palin is not the enlightened woman who has worked longer, harder, smarter to finally achieve the recognition of the Vice Presidency of the United States, a heartbeat from the POTUS...

No she is a cosseted bimbo, arm candy, paraded around by a sugar daddy with a long reputation of philandering. She never was the true governor of Alaska, her husband seems to have run things in his spare time. Now, she isn't really a viable candidate for VP, her every word coached, her access denied, hidden behind a wall of silence that stretches all the way back to Alaska where an army of
McCain henchmen have taken over the Governor's office. Her every move orchestrated, monitored, and supervised lest she make a mistake.

What a cynical old Boys Network tool she is!

Why not, after 400 years of denying women equality in this country, select a beauty queen and make her into a candidate and claim she is the culmination of all their work and hopes, while treating her in every sense of the word.....like chattel.

[exPatPatti]

Brilliantly stated

[EdT]

Yikes! You nailed it!

[dutch163]

Wow..how do you REALLY feel? LOL..You were brilliant!! well said!!

[juevosrancheros]

Oh snap!
You nailed it, dutchess2.

[oregondemgrl]

right on dutchess!!

[BabsfromKansas]

Better late than never with old news, CNN.

[Cheryllou]

This makes me sick. What about the women who couldn't afford the rape kit, did they have no testing done? sick, sick, sick.

[booksnmore4you]

I will very gladly have my taxes raised a bit to pay for rape kits for rape victims.

Any objectors?

[Cheryllou]

nope.

[kellygrrrl]

I'm With You!

[aliceinthewater]

What's worse about this is that she was pushing for a hockey rink that the tax payers paid for.

So, let's review some Palin logic. Hockey rink>Rape kits

I'm so angered by this woman I want to throw up.

[kellygrrrl]

sort of like

healthcare for Americans = NOPE

bailout greedy corps = YUP YUP

[bryan0218]

$5000 to $14000 per year! Good grief, for a town like Wassilla that's like 1 to 2 bucks per person, per year. holy moley!

[Bluejay00234]

This is sickening, and to think Alaska is the rape and incest capital of the world.

[Kindheart]

And even worse than that, after there is rape or incest, the woman would be forced to carry the child to term. While there are woman who would do that, and that is fine, the others would have a choice not to. They cannot overturn Roe v. Wade

[bryan0218]

Must have something to do with all that "meth"

[jamarib2mom]

That is just sad To be billed for something you didn't ask for! I mean as a mother how would she feel if it was her daughter of any family. Just to think there are people like this in office.

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