Fox News fact checks Sarah Palin’s ‘dollar conspiracy’

By Raw Story
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 -- 9:15 am
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sarah+palin Fox News fact checks Sarah Palins dollar conspiracyIn an speech to a Minnesota anti-abortion crowd last week, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin seemed to see a conspiracy in a decision to put "In God We Trust" on the edge -- rather than the face -- of new presidential dollar coins.

"She began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins," Politico wrote. "Noting that there had been a lot of “change” of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she inquired. “Who makes a decision like that?”

“It’s a disturbing trend,” she added.

Turns out, the decision was made by former Republican President George W. Bush, and approved in 2005.

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Raw Story was the first to note Palin's "conspiracy theory" Monday. The story then traveled to the Huffington Post, and then to -- of all places -- Fox News.

And Fox fact-checked Palin's claim. In the clip below, Fox's Brett Baier notes that the decision to put the godly phrase on the side of the coin was made under a Republican administration, and not reversed until 2007 -- with the support of Democrats in Congress.

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  • dennycrane
    “Who calls a shot like that?” she inquired. “Who makes a decision like that?”

    The same asshole that lied about a war and hundreds of other things that led up to the Fort Hood massacre.
  • Mooftown
    oh cmon denny, an unjustified war that will cause countless pain and loss of life is not nearly as disturbing as a bullshit religious phrase being moved from the face of a coin to the side of the coin, get your priorities in order here, like sarah palin has hers!
  • dennycrane
    I accidently drank some "holy" water and got carried away. And maybe the mercury from "fish sticks" I was forced to eat at school on Fridays because of the catholics.
  • dave
    What A Joke!! Hey, Faux News, why don't you fact check the thermite particles found in the World Trade Center dust? Why don't you fact check the REAL reason we are in Afghanistan and Iraq? Why don't you fact check about the ongoing Holocasut against the Palestinian people by Israel? Why don't you fact check about the false and bioengineered H1N1 virus? What a bunch of government propoganda bullshit!
  • damixaustex
    See Sarah speak.
    Speak, Sarah, speak!

    See Sarah run.
    Run, Sarah, run!

    Mrs. Palin, please, oh please run for President!
  • dickerson3870
    Fox News = Bob Dylan's 'Idiot Wind'

    "Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
    From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
    Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
    You're an idiot, babe.
    It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."
  • thepoliticalcat
    Every time I see her stupid face, I hear that song. You just cemented that earworm for life.
  • CHRISTER9977
    Just when you think Palin can't say anything more stupid, she defies everything and comes up with the most hair-brained, idiotic, and downright childish statements. I think you could go into any elementary school and find kids that have more intelligence and better grasp on what is going on in the world that this bimbo...
  • marxymcliberalson
    YEa, and who put that eye on the pyramind huh? George Soros put that there so Pelosi and Obama can spy on you! I mean think about! WHo lives in african pyramids???? Black people!! And what color is our illegitimate president? I REST MY CASE!
  • Justin
    dammit! =]
  • tanj
    Momma said Sarah Palin is just like a box ox Choclates!
  • matticusfinch
    If only they could have fact checked Bush....
  • mmeflutterbye
    I've said this before: Sarah Palin puts to flight the Peter Principle. She shows that you can not only rise to your level of your incompetence, but you can go far beyond it.
  • farang
    You've just coined the new derivative of the Peter Principle: The Palin Principle!!

    A condition afflicting @ 550 or so occupants of D.C. btw......
  • Deo
    She REALLY doesn't know anything, does she?
    WHO MAKES A CALL LIKE THAT, is her OH SO provocative question?? This reminds me of one ofher other questions, WHAT EXACTLY DOES THE VP DO????

    I am all for DEATH PANELS if Sarah will stand in front of one......
  • farang
    Truthfully, the expression on her face in this photo brings concern.

    I've seen that look on so many "Fundie" Christians before. The ones concerned about where a phrase praising their ancient astrological deity is located, while praising military personnel illeaglly occupying foreign lands, and killing women, children and infants, while using her disabled grandchild as a political prop.

    While defending a foreign nation and their Eastern European foreign occupiers of the genocide and confiscation of the native peoples and their land, dignity and justice.

    With absolutely no sense of shame or impropriety. "It's God's will."
  • mmeflutterbye
    That" Fundie" look can be described as lobotomized.
  • sj
    dumb as a box o rocks she is...
  • duhbyasworstnightmare
  • A~
    She scares me with that look. It's all smile and no substance. Her thought ballon is empty. And she's the darling of conservatives?! And they mock Obama for being nothing but a good speaker? My opinion of GOPers as either stupid, greedy or racist has fallen even lower than that. Now they are stupid, greedy AND racist. Their idea's to fix America is to make us all carbon copies of themselves. Thank God I don't live in a red state.
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