On MSNBC’s Hardball Friday, Pat Buchanan said that Sarah Palin and her husband “were at a fundraiser for me” back in 1996. Politico‘s Ben Smith noted that there is no record that Palin donated to Buchanan. In a new post, Smith reports that, according to Buchanan’s sister, Palin’s only contact with Buchanan was at a fundraiser for an Alaskan politician–not for Buchanan:

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