Tribune's Silva Repeats Palin's Claim That Dems Attacked Her Family

Yesterday, Media Matters caught the Tribune's Mark Silva simply repeating GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's claim in a fundraising letter that "Obama/Biden Democrats" leveled "vicious" attacks at her family.  From his September 4 post on the newspaper's Swamp blog:

Democrats have criticized Palin for her pointed remarks about Obama, deriding his experience as a community organizer for isntance [sic]. But in a fundraising letter issued today, Palin maintained that "the Obama-Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain. The misinformation and flat-out lies must be corrected."

Meanwhile, some other reporters actually questioned Palin's accusations and found their wasn't much to support them.  From Media Matters:

[I]n a September 4 entry on his Political Punch blog, Tapper wrote, "I asked spokespeople of the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee just which 'Obama/Biden Democrats' they're referring to. The response I got was that Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski erroneously attacked Palin as a supporter of Pat Buchanan. That's it. That's the evidence. An attack on Palin herself. In other words, they can't name one person affiliated with the Obama-Biden campaign who attacked the Palin family."

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