Mccain/Palin: Lies, lies, and more lies

Politicians lie. They all do. The ones we have running all will lie, and if you're not choked with pure idealism you'll admit it. In fact, if you're jaded enough, you might even come to accept it, even respect it when it's done well. The concept isn't perplexing, especially when a deftly placed, glibly drawn half-truth can get yourself out of a dead-end argument.

What is perplexing, however, are unnecessary lies. Silly falsehoods, said for no apparent reason, on topics that the world would have totally avoided had you not lied about it in the first place. One strange Sarah Palin falsehood, which she acclaimed as truth yesterday and the campaign reaffirmed tonight in video was that she successfully auctioned a private jet she deemed unnecessary for the State of Alaska to maintain on eBay. It's a strange falsehood because, in the first place, really, who cares? Moreover, it's bizarre because eBay founder Meg Whitman works for the McCain campaign! She's right there! In the building! And surely she can explain to Palin that she is getting that weird bit of biography wrong.

Via Radar, the facts are these:

After going unsold for months, the jet was put into the hands of Turbo North Aviation, an Anchorage aircraft broker, which put an asking price of $2.45 million on the nearly $2.7 million jet. It quickly sold to Alaska businessman Larry Reynolds for $2.1 million ($31,000 of which went to Turbo Aviation). Today the Westwind II jet spends its days ushering wealthy hunters around Alaska and Russia
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So why on earth would Palin lie about this, knowing that it would bring scrutiny to this story, and knowing that the scrutiny would reveal that a) the auction wasn't successful, b) she lost the State of Alaska's money on the deal, and c) the state's valuable resource had basically become a luxury for wealthy elites? I have no idea! But whatever! It's definitely not the worst lie she's ever told.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/sarah-palins-strange-ebay_n_124097.html
In assessing Palin's claim that "I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere," PolitiFact.com reported: "By the time Palin pulled the plug on the Gravina bridge project in September 2007, much of the federal funding for the bridge had already been diverted to other transportation projects." It further stated that "[w]hen Palin says 'I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that bridge to nowhere,' it implies Congress said, 'Here's a check for that bridge' and she responded, 'No thanks, that's wasteful spending; here's your money back.' That's not what happened. Fact is, Alaska took the bridge money, and then just spent it on other projects. Palin did make the final call to kill plans for the bridge, but by the time she did it was no longer a politically viable project."

But while the media have reported that Palin is opposed to earmarks, Gov. Palin's administration has acknowledged it requested federal earmarks in 2008. Indeed, in a March 18 Juneau Empire op-ed, John Katz, Alaska's director of state-federal relations and special counsel to Palin, wrote that in 2008, the Palin administration "request[ed] 31 earmarks, down from 54 last year." Additionally, The Washington Post reported on September 2 that Palin also oversaw the procurement of federal earmarks while Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an analysis by an independent government watchdog group."
http://mediamattersaction.org/palin_myths/

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[padude64]

Rachel rocks period! Rachel tells the absolute truth!

[padude64]

Go Rachel!!!!!!!!!!

[AnchorageDentist]

Tough subject.  Seriously.

[Mestherion]

@donoesau Except, of course, for the right.

[donoesau]

Speaking of lying, no one does it more or better than the left.

[MartyMac61]

Turns out Rachel is lying and McCain was truthful.

[a211pc]

Democrats never lie...Obama said you can keep your doctor, your premiums will decrease, adding 30 million ppl to health ins will not cost us anymore money ..well have your premiums gone down ? Has your hlth ins decreased its coverage ... now lets shift to Barney Frank ..did he lie when he said everythig was fine with Fannie May and Freddie Mac only one month before they both failed ?? they all lie both sides they all need to get voted out but Obama is the greatest liar of all .. this vid lies

[hakeem2003]

i love the doc!!!!

[longfootbuddy]

@daoudrafik well, goooolly jeepers, you showed me good , y'oll coot

[daoudrafik]

@longfootbuddy, judging from the language you use, you're as low as failin' Palin is.

[daoudrafik]

Failin' Palin is & has been incompetent, ignorant, unprepared & ill-prepared to hold any office. And on top of all that she's a LIAR too. Her belief in God is just a put-on. All she beieves in is herself. She'll stoop to any depth to try and make her look good. Her famous lies - bridge to nowhere, earmarks spending, the so-called "Obama's death panel", and the list goes on. I hope she runs in 2012. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see her lose - AGAIN!!!!

[BceltsRayRAy20]

well sarah should die just that simple no explanation needed just DIE PALIN DIE!