Begala rips MSM, Republican operative for flat-out lying

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars (http://www.crooksandliars.com/)

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Paul Begala goes to town on GOP media consultant Alex Castellanos for peddling blatant falsehoods about Sarah Palin's "reformer" record, specifically her phantom opposition to the "Bridge to Nowhere," (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/politifact_mccain_exagger­ates.html) which she not only supported, but for which hired a Abramoff crony to secure the earmark.

Begala couldn't be more spot on here: Facts are facts. Opinions can be debated, but facts are concrete and can't simply be spun away. It seems to me that this is the crux of the McCain strategy: take an unknown hockey mom from Alaska, tell everyone she's a reformer, lie about her record in order to convince people of it, then keep her sequestered from the press when they start asking questions. Are the American people really dumb enough to fall for it?

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