{"id":25886,"date":"2017-01-18T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/ap-fact-check-palin-not-blaming-attack-on-mexican-muslims\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:03:22","slug":"ap-fact-check-palin-not-blaming-attack-on-mexican-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/ap-fact-check-palin-not-blaming-attack-on-mexican-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"AP FACT CHECK: Palin not blaming attack on &#8216;Mexican Muslims&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin isn\u2019t blaming a recent fatal shooting at a Florida airport on \u201cMexican Muslims\u201d despite the claims of a story being shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The story posted by Newslo\u2019s politicono.com falsely quotes the former Republican vice presidential candidate as saying it was President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cpolicy of allowing Mexican Muslims to walk freely on our streets that has caused so much death and destruction recently, including this latest incident which has taken five innocent lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palin\u2019s attorney John Tiemessen said the quote and others attributed to her in the story are fabricated.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Jan. 6. Esteban Santiago was charged in the shootings. Santiago is a U.S. citizen born in New Jersey and raised in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Newslo describes itself as a \u201chybrid News\/Satire platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like many of its articles, the story on Palin allows readers to display the story with or without facts highlighted. When a reader clicks \u201cshow facts,\u201d the quotes attributed to Palin are not highlighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin isn\u2019t blaming a recent fatal shooting at a Florida airport on \u201cMexican Muslims\u201d despite the claims of a story being shared on social media. The story posted by Newslo\u2019s politicono.com falsely quotes the former Republican vice presidential candidate as saying it was President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cpolicy of allowing Mexican Muslims to walk freely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25886"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}