Lies and videotape, without the sex…..yet….
Andrew Sullivan has been keeping track. We are up to 15 now…
I’m posting this because none of the direct, indisputably proven, factual untruths that Palin has uttered has yet to be retracted by this candidate or her running mate. When you have a leading politician running on a record of outright lies, and those lies are deemed irrelevant, you have a problem. Each one has been fact-checked to near-death. They are not the usual political lie – hyperbole, parsing, exaggeration, spin. They are factual, checkable, indisputable untruths.
Palin could not have asked her girls for permission to accept McCain’s veep offer if she also says she accepted the offer unblinkingly and right away. Palin did fire a police chief even as she insisted to a reporter she hadn’t. She did violate the confidential medical records of Mike Wooten. She hasn’t met with any trade missions from Russia. She does not have any gay friends that anyone can find. She did not oppose the Bridge to Nowhere. She did not sell that plane on eBay. Her Teleprompter did not fail in her convention speech. Alaska’s state scientists did not conclude that polar bears were in no danger. She did deny publicly that humans had anything to do with climate change.
Alaska does not provide “nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy,” as she claimed. The gas pipeline she touts as her major “mission accomplished” has not broken ground and may never do so. She did not take a pay-cut as mayor of Wasilla. And on and on. Anyone with Google can check all of these out. Including reporters.
These are all documented, bald-faced factually irrefutable lies. More to the point: she refuses to cop to them or be held accountable for them or take questions about them. Until she does, we can rightly infer there is no reason to believe anything she says, and that includes her recent medical history. A liar like this cannot be taken on trust. We have to verify it all.
Release the medical records and tax returns now.
I trust you’ll do a similar post for all of Senator Biden’s various mis-statements and lies, and am anxiously awaiting the same.
I’ll take that as a
“I agree Palin is a liar”
move along now sloan
Biden has been checked and double-checked for at least 20 years now. We all know his foot fits firmly in his mouth, but should he be starring in the film “Lies Like Us”? Sarah Palin is the leading lady in that flick.
#1 – We’re not going to do your job for you. Besides which, I challenge you to name a time when Biden has told 15 flat-out easily disproven lies in the space of a single month. At this rate, Sarah Palin is on pace for 180 lies a year. That’s a lie every other day. And when you consider the fact that she repeats these lies, and says little else of substance, you’ll see that the content of everything she says is 30% lies, 30% evasions, 20% awkward platitudes, 10% irrelevent anecdotes, and 10% cutesy folksy homespunisms.
Not only does she lie, but she continues to lie even after her lies are exposed. How many times did she repeat the “thanks but no thanks” lie? The lying is part of their campaign strategy.
Oh come on, UI. That’s just Sarah being Sarah. Isn’t it cute!
“The lying is part of their campaign strategy.”
Just as it is with Obama. If he repeats them long enough people start believing them.
Mike, are you capable of saying anything more than “Obama does it too!”
Fine, prove it. DV listed 15 Palin lies (per Andrew Sullivan). Give me 15 Obama lies. And I mean LIES, just like Palin’s.
crickets…..
where is that Damn monkey when we need her
Andrew Sullivan – ……nice unbiased guy he is.
So, mike… you got nothing? Surely coming up with 15 Obama lies should be a piece of cake. Okay, make it 10.
Ready, set, GO!
“Andrew Sullivan – ……nice unbiased guy he is.”
Nobody’s unbiased, ass hat. And if you knew anything about Sullivan, you’d realize that his is a right-wing bias, and has been for years. Do some research, bullet-head.
Still waiting…
Don’t disturb mike w right now, he’s pooping.