Sarah Palin Uses Facebook to Deny Unsourced Divorce Rumors

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by Colby Hall | 3:53 pm, August 1st, 2009

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505px-sarah_palin_kuwait_22a Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin‘s spokesperson Meg Stapleton disputed reports of an impending divorce in a rather unique way today. After the website AlaskaReport.com posted an unsourced rumor suggesting that not only were Palin and husband Todd not speaking to one another at her resignation speech last week, but that divorce papers were soon to be filed, Palin’s Facebook page quickly fired back an official response:

Here’s the original story AlaskaReport.com filed earlier today:

AlaskaReport has learned this morning that Todd Palin and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are to divorce. Multiple sources in Wasilla and Anchorage have confirmed the news.

A National Enquirer story exposing previous affairs on both sides led to a deterioration of their marriage and the stress from that led to Palin’s resignation as governor of Alaska.

This is the response that appeared on Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page this afternoon:

Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story. There is no truth to the recent “story” (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that the Palins are divorcing. The Palins remain married, committed to each other and their family, and have not purchased land in Montana (last week it was reported to be Long Island).

Less than one week ago, Governor Palin asked the media to “quit making things up.” We appreciate that the more professional journalists decided to question this story before repeating it.

Meg Stapleton

While some might criticize her non-traditional approach, Palin does appear to be embracing a Web 2.0 strategy for communications.

Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher has more.

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Rawls

Centuries of common law precedent confirm the best way to prosecute defamation or an offshoot of it is with Facebook.
marigrace

Good Gracious, why the obsession with Sarah Palin? We have a nation, whose economy has tanked, joblessness is increasing, we have a president who has loaded a huge debt on our kids, also a president who makes immature stupid remarks and than has to smooth things over with a “beer fest”, and people are still jabbering about Sarah Palin. Who cares what they do as Palin is out of politics and more than likely she will never have a chance to get back into it again, to change the course of the future of this nation. However the “boy king” in the white house will change the future of this nation thus that is where we should be focused.
Pam1151

For those who are complaining about Obama being in the Whitehouse need only think about what it would be like if McCain and this insane woman would be doing if they had been elected. OMG what a mess that would be.
marigrace

Why speculate on the mess if McCain/Palin were in the White House, when they aren’t there. As a nation we need to focus on the mess that Obama is creating. McCain and Palin are history, and it is only the immature and intellectually inept, that are greedily devouring every little tidbit of information about Palin, not caring if it is true or untrue. I am surprised that the anti-Palin vultures haven’t speculated on what type toilet paper she uses and peeped in her windows to check if she wipes from front to back.