Comments on: Palin misrepresents her record on the Bridge to Nowhere for 11th time.

By: cirrostratus

cirrostratus — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:29:55 +0000

It’s frightening how well Palin and McCain lie. They do it so confidently, enthusiastically, and with such apparent sincerity. And when you talk to the people who believe in these two liars, they believe in them so deeply.

They believe even when you show them that what they’ve taken as gospel truths are flat out lies. They come up with rationalizations about why what is clearly in front of them must not be really true. How do you win against people willing to lie about anything to people who are desperately willing to believe all of those lies?

By: GL2814

GL2814 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:47:35 +0000

Frontier Barbie is fast becoming more of an anchor (as in the ocean) for McGeezer than a boost.

By: Johnsnottoodistracted

Johnsnottoodistracted — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:42:25 +0000

Either s___h___ had her rehearse with him a few times or she is getting smoother.She now can make this fantasy flow a bit easier.
Must be confidence from the atta-boys she gets from the script writers.
Where will she go when this play ends?
What will she do with all the prepared lines?
How does she face people knowing everyone that speaks english knows she constantly lies?
Oh, forgot. Everyone she sees everyday lies too.
They are her best examples.
That’s why she is getting better at this.
They all sit around and practice lies.
How creative.

By: DallasNE

DallasNE — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:32:02 +0000

Palin is not the story so it is time to pack it in on this item. MSM has pointed out what the real record is. The story no longer has legs. Instead, let’s talk about how John McCain thinks Spain is one of those nations out to hurt us. And if McCain won’t even talk to Spain, what chance would we have to repair our very real foreign relations problems in places like, say, North Korea. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_re_as/as_koreas_nuclear

By: barfly

barfly — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:30:30 +0000

Since thinkfast hasn’t yet been posted, I guess I’ll post this here.

Last night, I watched as Larry Kudlow tried to make the case that the main reason we are in this mortgage mess is because of low-income people who shouldn’t have been able to get a loan, and the legislators who enabled them. This was patently false, and it enraged me that the Scar, or his co-host didn’t challenge it.

The reason we have the current crisis isn’t primarily because of low-income Americans trying to get a home for their family. It’s because of entrepreneurial house flippers, who could get access to easy credit, namely interest-only loans, with the intent to fix and unload the houses quickly. They drove the prices up, and were the first to walk away from underwater loans, making the poor pay ever more for their loans, just to stay afloat.

Kudlow deserved to be verbally slapped, for trying to make poor people the bad guys, when it was really the same folk he always lionizes on his show: the entrepreneurs.

By: editormom

editormom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:46:29 +0000

Have you seen the piece in The Nation (and longer version at the Nation Institute) by Sydney Schanberg on McCain’s role in a coverup about American POWs in Vietnam?

The Nation piece:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/schanberg

The piece at the Nation Institute:

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

By: tarazan

tarazan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:27:08 +0000

What comes out from her mouth is called ‘truth to nowhere’.

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:27 +0000

The bridge was intended to provide access to Ketchikan’s airport on Gravina Island, which had a population of 50 in the 2000 U.S. Census. After (R)McCain and others railed against it, Congress dropped the specific earmark but kept the money in a transportation bill for Alaska.

By: galmud

galmud — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:03 +0000

I’d like to see Palin confronted on this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ eric-schmeltzer/ palins-anti-rape-investig_b_126763.html

What do you guys think?

Agree. News media should be all over this. Especially her time as mayor

I mean this is just sickening

“When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town suddenly started charging rape victims between $300 and $1200 to have the rapist’s DNA and other forensic evidence taken, tested, cataloged and investigated.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-mapes/palins-fetal-position_b_126670.html

By: MrSquirrel

MrSquirrel — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:19:17 +0000

If these two pathological liars can carry even 40% of the vote, it is a shame upon this nation. Do that many people not mind being lied to repeatedly?

By: SpoxLogic

SpoxLogic — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:15:08 +0000

I have to take issue with the word “misrepresents” in the headline. If she’d done it once or twice, that would be misrepresenting. By now, she and the McCain camp should know that everyone knows her statement is not true. Therefore, she is outright lying.
Call it what it is!

By: Tawdry

Tawdry — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:03:50 +0000

Dreaming that her next interviewer directly asks her why she’s repeating an out and out lie. McCain better watch out – yesterday she called the campaign the Palin/McCain campaign. Read yesterday that she took $50,000 from the Wasilla budget for roads to decorate her office. She put up red flocked wallpaper and according to the source, who by the way was her original supporter and mentor on the city council, said her office resembled a bordello. When she was confronted by this man about taking the money without the city council’s approval she said she could do anything she wanted because she was the mayor.

By: anaj

anaj — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:48:32 +0000

I’d like to see Palin confronted on this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palins-anti-rape-investig_b_126763.html

What do you guys think?

By: tacitus

tacitus — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:26:52 +0000

Well that was odd. Seems that WordPress has a little bug where comments with the same time stamp are out of order.

Ho hum.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:22:29 +0000

You know, Palin could have used any number of excuses for “changing her mind” on the Bridge to Nowhere. I have heard plenty of reasonable ones from her supporters on various message boards, like “she saw the light on earmarks and government waste” or “she came to realize that the only way to get Alaska’s government spending under control was to begin weaning themselves of federal government largess”, etc. etc.

But incredibly, they just decided that the best way to deal with the issue was to bluster her way through and hope no one would notice. The biggest problem for her is that she’s adopted it as her major signature “government waste” sound bite, and she has nothing else to replace it with. The wise course would have been to drop the subject entirely and let the issue fade away, but she keeps repeating it and she going to keep getting hammered for it.

No wonder her favorability rating is in the take. She’s turning out to be a one-trick pony.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:22:06 +0000

Oops — I meant to say “…in the tank!” (last paragraph).

By: kevinbrown

kevinbrown — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:19:37 +0000

In your ongoing coverage on this subject may I suggest that you include the below OFFICAL Alaskan Governament document which provides the best evidence yet that what Sarah Palin (and McCain) has been repeating over and over again is a complete lie. Take a look. http://dot.alaska.gov/ stwdplng/ projectinfo/ ser/ Gravina/ images/ 092107_palin_gap_release.pdf

In Palins own words:

“Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project,
and it’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina
Island,” Governor Palin added. “Much of the public’s attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of
the projects here. But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened.”

This DOES NOT sound like “Thanks but no thanks”. It is clear from her statement that she REGRETS that Alaska is “$329 short” of funds (from the lower 48) and that this is due to “misconceptions” in the lower 48 about Alaska Bridges (she actually admitted as much in her friendly sit-down with Hannity)

Also you might want to add to your Blog that while this “bridge to nowhere” is dead …Palin supports another MORE EXPENSIVE ($600MILLION) bridge to nowhere linking Anchorage to Her hometown of Wasilla (pop. 9,000)

By: Robt

Robt — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:44:08 +0000

A friend I know is a Trekee. Yes, Star Trek.

He tells me that Palin is a scout of the BORG from a couple of episodes.

Apparently, Palin being a BORG is here to assimilate you. I am beginning to think he may be right. She keeps saying this hypnotizing phrase over and over. Until you are fully assimilated and resistance is futile I understand.

** I tried to tell him its half truth and half lie. She was for it and only once it had poor national attention and congress killed it. This pork money could be used to repair levees after Katrina, well she became against it.

It seems some will believe the half of truth and others will believe the half that is lie.

Its not the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth iif half is a lie.

By: rlplant

rlplant — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:22:32 +0000

People, and the news media, have apparently forgotten was that the earmark issue was over the bridges to nowhere, note the plural for bridge. Palin originally supported earmarks for both the Gravina Island bridge and the bridge from Anchorage across the Knik Arm. Both were about a quarter billion dollars. She continues to support construction of the Knik Arm bridge, and I’m sure if she weren’t running for VP she would be working hard to get earmarks for it as well.

By: joe cantwell

joe cantwell — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:13:30 +0000

helenahandbasket Says:
I am blown away. Palin can’t even answer a question from Hannity.
Is she more like Cheney or Bush, I can’t decide.

cheney.