Weekend Update: The Latest Scandals and Other Related Palinical Nonsense

Here are a few of the latest scandals and other juicy tid-bits swirling around Champagne Sarah Palin.  Stay tuned for updates:

From the AP:

AP INVESTIGATION: Palin pipeline terms curbed bids

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD and GARANCE BURKE – 7 hours ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sarah Palin's signature accomplishment — a contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48 — emerged from a flawed bidding process that narrowed the field to a company with ties to her administration, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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.Palin wrongly suggests Congress bans oil exports

By H. JOSEF HEBERT  Associated Press Writer

Published: Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, touted by GOP presidential candidate John McCain as his expert on energy, seemed to have problems Thursday explaining whether the government bans oil exports - especially from her state's North Slope fields.

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From Fox News: 

Alaska’s Biggest Paper Backs Obama

by Bonney Kapp

ALBUQUERQUE - If it were up to the nation’s newspapers to decide, Barack Obama and Joe Biden would win in a landslide. According to Editor & Publisher - a journal covering the newspaper industry - the Democrats are favored over their GOP rivals by editorial boards 147 - 57 with just nine days until E-Day.

So it was really no surprise when papers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The LA Times came out for Obama for president — but the Anchorage Daily News? Governor Sarah Palin lost the endorsement of her hometown paper - Alaska’s biggest newspaper

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