Yet another tea partier proven to be a liar

[proud2BlibKansan]

Gina Loudon...Busted

To review, Michael Joseph Gross wrote a scathing story for Vanity Fair about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. In that story, Gross mentioned Sarah Palin handing off her son Trig prior to a speech in Independence, Missouri. However, as St. Louis tea party leader Gina Loudon (who was involved in the event in Independence) correctly noted, the child was not actually Trig but rather Loudon's adopted son Samuel Loudon. Gross noted that he made a mistake, and it should have been a very minor case of mistaken identity, since the identity of the child had nothing to do with the rest of the story. However, Loudon pushed it further, accusing Gross of being deliberately dishonest, by telling the Post-Dispatch that she had told Gross at the event that the child was actually Samuel Loudon and that Gross had ignored her. Here is how Gross responded to that charge:

Let me state this as unequivocally as possible: Loudon’s accounts have no basis in reality. I do not mean simply that the facts are wrong—I mean that the episode did not occur. I have never met Gina Loudon. I have never spoken to Gina Loudon in person or by phone. I have never exchanged e-mail or snail mail with Gina Loudon. I did not even know Gina Loudon’s name until it began cropping up in connection with the accounts quoted above. Furthermore, I could not have spoken to her in Independence, because I was not allowed backstage on the floor of the arena, where Loudon was; that was a restricted space, and, as far as I am aware, all reporters were barred from the area. (I was sitting several rows up, in a place where I was able to observe what was happening both in front of and behind the curtain.)

It could be that Loudon spoke to another reporter that day, and that this is a case of mistaken identity. The other possibility is that Loudon has simply made everything up, inventing and publicizing a complete fabrication for her own purposes. It is either the one thing or the other.

Today, Gina Loudon wrote another response where she continued to accuse Gross of lying, and she said on Twitter that she had "proof." In fact, she presented proof that she is being completely dishonest.

more . . . http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2010/09/gina-loudonbusted.html

[Bitwit1234]

1. Makes no difference that she has been proven to be telling a lie

the republicans and their right wing lieoggers will post and post and post repeating the lie and not the truth. don't they always. Truth doesn't matter to them all they want is to promote trash like Palin.

[Brewman_Jax]

2. Lies have never stopped them

Fact is--they thrive on lies because the truth is too painful. :hurts:

[Jim__]

3. It's great that this blog is out there with the evidence.

But, the lies will just continue.