Palin rips Obama with distorted quotation

They may not be talking about Bill Ayers anymore (though ads still do), but the GOP candidates aren't shy about misrepresenting Obama in order to whip up fear and outrage against their opponents. Obama, in the course of talking about why he supports comprehensive sex education rather than abstinence-only sex ed, indicated that he wouldn't want his daughters to end up pregnant or with STDs because they'd been denied basic information. But here is Politico.com's report on what Sarah Palin had to say: "Thus, McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, spent Saturday morning in Johnstown — an industrial area in southwestern Pennsylvania dominated by the type of older, white, working-class, socially conservative voters who favored Clinton over Obama in the primary — where Palin blasted Obama’s support for abortion rights as “absolutely radical.”

Referencing Obama’s comments that he wouldn’t want one of his daughters to have an unwanted pregnancy and be “punished with a baby,” Palin said “it's about time we called him on it.”"

While Politico's story did have a link to click through to a story that provided context on Obama's remarks, they nowhere mention in this story that Palin was misleadingly implying that his comment was in reference to abortion policy.