If we're going to give pixels to the Ayers-wrote-Obama's-memoir nonsense, then we should give pixels to this, which strikes me as more plausable than memoir-gate.
The writer speculates that Palin got her house built for less than the going rate by the same contractors who were building the Wasilla Sports Complex. Key points that raise suspicions:
1) the house was built just a mile from the Complex;
2) the house was built at the same time as the Complex;
3) Seems like slightly odd timing for the Palin's to take on the expense of the new house, with her time as mayor coming to an end;
4) Mayor Palin got rid of requirements for building permits in time for there to be no records of building activities on her house (as Church Lady would say, "How conveeeeeenient!");
5) I think I understood a reporter from the Village Voice on Oberman to say he tracked down the contractors on the Complex project and the main one said he helped Todd build the house (I may have misheard that, though, so I'm not sure I got that right).
Update: And of course, it's not just speculation that labor wandered over to help with Palin's house, it's that materials found their way to Palin's house. Oh, and the contractor mentioned in #5 was Steven's contractor.
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You are close! This is the story:
1. "Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the...house himself, with the help of contractors he described as 'buddies.'"
2. Since "Sarah Palin (as mayor) blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city...there is no public record of who (those) 'buddies' were."
3. The house was built as then-Mayor Sarah Palin was awarding lucrative contracts to build the $12.5 mil Wasilla Sports Complex.
4. It is not far-fetched to think that the contractors who received some of those huge contracts may have been the "buddies" helping Todd Palin build his $552,000 house.
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