ABC News Slimes Sarah Palin

The team of “reporters” that ABC News has sent to Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin has discovered that the Public Safety Commissioner had received an authorization to travel to Washington DC.

"to attend meeting with Senator Murkowski."

Claiming that this travel authorization:

“…appears to contradict Sarah Palin's most recent explanation for why she fired her public safety chief …”

when it does not such thing is another example of the slime being thrown at Palin by the MSM.

The same article accuses Palin of pursuing a

“…personal vendetta…”

The response from the McCain-Palin campaign says:

In response to inquiries about the document Friday, the McCain-Palin campaign provided a statement from Randy Ruaro, another aide to Palin.

According to Ruaro, Monegan asked for -- and received -- approval for the travel without telling Palin's staff his reason for going. "As a matter of routine, the travel was approved by Mike Nizich ... weeks before the actual purpose was made clear by former Commissioner Monegan," Ruaro wrote.

It’s interesting and revealing that even the fired Public Safety Commissioner does not support the ABC charge:

Contacted Friday, Monegan confirmed the travel authorization was to pursue funding for the anti-sexual-violence program. He said the travel authorization form was completed in a fashion consistent with practice, even though it showed no expenditures. The signed form approved the travel, he said, and authorized him to use a government credit card or seek reimbursement for expenses he incurred during the trip.

Monegan said he didn't know why Palin's chief of staff approved a trip that confounded her other aides. "It sounds like it's a breakdown of communication internal to the governor's staff," he said.

When I first read this “exclusive report” my first reaction was, “You’re shitting me, right?” Upon re-reading I now realize that it’s a classic example of the kind of slimy innuendo that the MSM has been throwing at Sarah Palin since her candidacy was announced. The members of the MSM who are determined to insure that their candidate will win this November are piling it deeper and higher in the hopes that a general cloud of doubt will form and a young and accomplished woman will be consigned to the ash-heap of history.

In this context it seems that ABC has authorized a travel budget that is aimed at making disparaging and untrue statements about Governor Palin for the purpose of derailing her campaign. I wonder if it says that in the travel vouchers at ABC?