Palin is Still Lying About Bridge To Nowhere

[RedEarth]

By Greg Sargent - September 9, 2008, 11:21AM
Unchastened by the multiple media outlets who have pointed out that Sarah Palin's claim to have said "thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere is a lie, she repeated the falsehood again today on the trail today in Lebanon, Ohio. Here's her quote:

"You're gonna hear a lot about the abusive practice of earmarks in Congress form our good senator here. We championed in Alaska reform of the old earmark process. I told Congress, `Thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge To Nowhere up in Alaska. If our state wanted a bridge, we were gonna build it ourselves."

As Josh notes, the falsehood has now been debunked by everyone from Newsweek to the Associated Press to the Wall Street Journal. But here's Palin keeping up with it anyway.

McCain aides clearly think they can just keep pushing this lie until the news orgs tire of pointing out that it's false -- or, as McCain campaign Rick Davis might put it, until the news orgs start treating her with "deference."

Perhaps some will worry that continuing to point out the lies runs the risk of coming across as indecorous. But let's keep doing it anyway. As Newsweek put it in a very good piece on this, the movement towards holding the McCain campaign accountable for the falsehood every time he and his campaign repeat it represents "a certain kind of progress."


Late Update: Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor responds:

"On the same day that dozens of news organizations have exposed Governor Palin's phony Bridge to Nowhere claim as a 'naked lie,' she and John McCain continue to repeat the claim in their stump speeches. Maybe tomorrow she'll tell us she sold it on eBay."

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/palin_again_recites_lie_about.php

[VolcanoJen]

1. A NAKED LIE

That's more like it. Call this shit what it is. That's the job of surrogates and campaign ads and journalists, but is not a job for the candidate himself.

Of course, it reminds all of us that Republicans lie, and they smile knowingly while they do it. It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[BlueIdaho]

2. If you tell a lie often enough it will soon sound like the truth. nt.

[Avalux]

4. It will BECOME the truth.

That's how the GOP operates. How else did over half the people in this country believe Saddam Hussein was part of 9/11? Bold face lies, over and over and over.

[BlueIdaho]

16. Sadly correct.

[babylonsister]

3. Just how freakin' stoopid are they? Hard to wrap my mind around this. nt

[ErinBerin84]

5. "Maybe tomorrow she'll tell us she sold it on eBay."

[curious one]

6. She is a broken record repeating the same shit over and over and over again.

[VolcanoJen]

8. She's reading, word-for-word, the same speech the Bush Administration authored for her...

... to deliver at the RNC.

Word for word. You have to wonder if this woman has ever had an original thought.

[riderinthestorm]

12. Even more creepy is that fact that she's saying it the exact same way also.

Everytime I hear it, she's saying it with the same inflections, pacing and intonation. I'm totally creeped out. It's so obviously scripted, and Sarah Palin so obviously CANNOT deviate from the script for any reason (even as the public debunking of this lie grows ever louder).

[VolcanoJen]

13. It's turning into a Toby Keith concert

These idiots that show up at her rallies loved that song she sang at the RNC, and so they're flocking to her rallies to hear her cover their favorite tune.

It says an awful lot about Republican voters, if you ask me.

[TahitiNut]

14. Yup. It gives me a better idea how much the reporters following her are in the tank for the GOP.

They breathlessly and excitedly "report" how the turnout is improved and the GOP is energized ... while ignoring the repeated LIES and litany of bullshit.

[VolcanoJen]

15. "She's The Biggest Celebrity In The World"

Gimme an ad with Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and thousands of GOP sycophants chanting "SARAH! SARAH! SARAH!"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[riderinthestorm]

7. Her repetition of the lies, over and over, interspersed with the dates/sources of debunking

could be an effective commercial. It's crazy to let this go - use it. Yes, all politicians lie but imho Dems should keep pounding on this serious character flaw of Sarah Palin's. It's easy to understand by even the most uninformed voter.

[lolamio]

9. I can't believe this isn't getting any traction. This woman is a bold faced liar, but people..

still love her. F'ng low information voters frustrate the shit out of me.

[budkin]

10. THE SAME FUCKING DELIVERY OVER AND OVER

A true Republican... you lie enough times and it becomes the truth!

[The Stranger]

11. Concerned that continuing to point out the lies is "indecorous"?

Holy mind fuck.

Holy. Mind. Fuck.