Sarah Palin is still being led around on a leash by John McCain. Today, McCain dragged her to Lebanon, Ohio, where he had Palin lie about her opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere…again.
Let me tell you something, dear readers. This spectacle is the perfect example of why political bloggers are so important. Without us there would be no one to horsewhip the media into covering this violence against the truth. In this particular instance, I don’t have any complaints about the quantity of the media’s coverage. Even the Wall Street Journal is calling McCain and Palin liars. The cable channels are playing clips that flatly contradict the McCain-Palin line. It’s not that the media isn’t exposing the lies, but as Atrios notes, they are allowing a ‘debate’ over this issue. There should be no debate even allowed over such a stark set of facts.
But here’s something to consider. As the McCain-Palin tour continues there are two developing stories. One is over why McCain is afraid to let Palin campaign alone or do any interviews. The other is over the bizarre spectacle of this Bridge to Nowhere neverending fib. What does it tell us about the McCain-Palin campaign and how they would govern that they will tell lies so brazenly and unapologetically, day after day after day after day?
Isn’t that what ruined the Bush administration? Didn’t Scott McClellan write a book about just that point?
I’ll shamelessly pimp my diary – The Apalin’ Palin Fraud and Fallout You get to watch the Fox video with Chris Wallace calling out on the bridge fib.
Just have to keep on calling out their lie. Push back
Off Topic, but this is just too funny. We all need some comic relief. Here is Part 2 of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog at the RNC…
In case you missed it, here is Triumph at RNC part 1
the ball is in obama’s court. having been brazenly caught in a web of lies, the mcworse campaign has shrugged its shoulders and contemptuously sneered “so what are you gonna do about it?”
i’m sorry, but “i have confidence in the american people” is just not gonna cut it. while calling a lie a lie is a start:
… what i’d like to hear is that, in a time of war and recession, mcworse’s antics are self-indulgent and unacceptable. at a time of desperate need for serious debate, they’re acting like spoiled children — on the titanic.
the open secret of course is that mcworse can’t afford to have that debate since his party is politically bankrupt …
and so the lying continues.
until someone does something about it.
or not.
i’m sorry, but “i have confidence in the american people” is just not gonna cut it.
I have to agree with this. Barack stated last night during his interview on Countdown that “the American people aren’t stupid” as a response to Keith’s question about how do you respond to the lies. I couldn’t help thinking “yeah, actually a good percentage of them are.” If not stupid, at least ignorant, especially when you consider that most voters are “low information” voters who are exactly the ones being targeted by the republican ticket’s repetitious lies. These voters don’t seek out information and look at both sides of the issue. If they hear SP say 500 times that she told congress no thanks on that bridge to nowhere, they believe it.
There’s a reason she repeats the lie with such precision each time.
I guess if there’s one thing we should have learned watching the Republicans over the last couple of decades it is this.
Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat again.
It’s worked beautifully for them to establish lies as truth in the minds of Americans over the last generation. You’d damn well think it should work the same way for establishing THE TRUTH in people’s minds, now wouldn’t you?
BTW, this McCain rally today was held in my hometown. My dad was down there waiting in the rain at 6:30 just to get in and get an up-close and personal look at his new-found heartthrob, Moosehunter Sarah. I’ll definitely have to do a couple of big shots before I head up to his house next time. He’ll be positively giddy. I love him but damn, he’s a right-wing nut job through and through. It takes a lot of alcohol to be around him very long when he gets on politics. He’s beyond hope, I’m afraid.
Well, Obama has been repeating, and repeating, and repeating the line about McCain being Bush III and how we can’t afford four more years of Bush’s failed policies. Most of the Democratic attacks on McCain seem to be coming down to that single point — tying McCain to Bush.
McCain a maverick? That’s not possible when he voted with Bush 90% of the time last year.
McCain would end the war in Iraq? He’d stay in there for 100 years if necessary, just like Bush.
Palin? Bush in a skirt.
How many times have we seen Bush and Cheney lie to the American people? Well, McCain and Palin are not only perpetuating the Bush administration’s lies, they are coming up with brand new lies of their own.
IMO, and I’m not a campaign strategist or anything, they have to keep hitting McPalin on those lies and ties to Bush every time they get up to speak, every time they do an ad, every time they say anything about McPalin. In fact, I’d love to see Obama call McCain a liar to his face in their debate. A full McCain meltdown on live TV would do wonders for Obama’s candidacy, and that seems as likely to trigger one as anything I can think of.
I’m on my knees praying that Rachel Maddow can keep her show on MSNBC. I’m sure the network is under enormous pressure to get rid of her already. She came right out and accused McCain and Miss Wassila of lying on multiple issues.
It records Colbert, Stewart and Countdown every night but I haven’t yet set it up to record Rachel Maddow. I think she airs while I’m still on the bus coming home from work at night. My wife watched her last night and said she did a good job.
McCain leads Palin around like a dog on a leash. Is this the Rethuglican view of women’s rights? And, they keep telling the same fib on the bridge to nowhere.
I think McCain and co should break out some new lies, like you know they are really financial conservatives and they won’t give anyone special favors, especially the well-to-do,, that we are really winning the war in Afghanistan, that global warming is just some Democratic con job, that everybody in the world admires our attempt to bring democracy to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. And, yes, Karl Rove is a super patriot and God’s chosen disciple to bring peace and harmony to America.
Power to the rich and the mighty, now and forever. God loves the wealthy more than anyone else. Just ask the fundamentalists.
It’s too late this election cycle to end the neverending fibs. Obama already cut and ran from that fight. And to be fair to Obama, the Democrats as a whole cut and ran from that fight decades ago.
This explains why the “liberal elite” charge is so effective even if it’s laughable on its face. My hypothesis: “liberal elite”=left-leaning coward that doesn’t have the courage of his convictions and won’t fight for his political beliefs. Republicans believe so much in their ideology that they’ll even shamelessly lie for these beliefs. Gore, Kerry, and now Obama all pull their punches and won’t fight for liberalism and won’t even play politics to further their putative ideological goals. In fact, the Democrats join the Republicans by agreeing that liberals have gone to far and must be publicly scolded (like MoveOn, Wes Clark, Jesse Jackson, Dennis Kucinich, etc.).
Until the Democrats learn to fight the conservative bullies their goose (or moose?) is cooked.
Milking the state of Alaska for travel home, instead of official state travel..
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080909/ap_on_el_pr/palin_travel_expenses
Is this really any different from what McCain has been doing all along? He will say and/or do what he or his handlers feel is necessary to attain victory. His flip-flopping and lying are nothing new.