Palins' Press Problem....

kenmabmcc · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: Palins' Press Problem....

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She is also a liar. She is not a liar in the usual political sense. She tells lies that can be shown to be empirically untrue by anyone with access to the public record. Many of these lies are trivial, but their triviality is related to the fact that they are utterly unnecessary. I learnt a long time ago, following the Clintons, that if people lie unnecessarily about small things, they are capable of lying about the big things as well.

In the past month we have discovered the following: Palin told one interviewer that she asked her daughters for permission to accept McCainâ€™s veep offer; she told another that she had accepted the offer immediately and unblinkingly without asking anyone. The first version was, it turned out, a lie. But it sounded good for the 10 seconds needed on national television.

She insisted back in Wasilla that she did not fire the police chief. When the reporter called the cop to check, he read a termination letter, signed by Palin, over the telephone. Despite her claim to Couric, Palin has not met any trade missions from Russia.

She did not oppose the â€œbridge to nowhereâ€ in Alaska; she lobbied for it. She said she sold a state aeroplane on eBay. She did not. She claimed her Teleprompter failed in her convention speech. It did not. She said Alaskaâ€™s state scientists had concluded that polar bears were in no danger. A journalistâ€™s legal request to review the report showed that she had lied and the scientists had indeed said the bear was endangered. Palin said Alaska provided â€œnearly 20% of the US domestic supply of energyâ€. It does not. The gas pipeline she touts as her main â€œmission accomplishedâ€ has not broken ground and may never do so. She says she took a pay cut as mayor of Wasilla. She did not. And on and on.

These lies are not in any dispute because they are factually checkable. To avoid any engagement on these subjects and the untruths she has told, she refuses to hold a press conference of any type.

This is why she is kept away from any questioning reporters.
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pasquanel · Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 398 Location: Maine

For minute I thiught you were quoting a reliable "News Source"

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louis-the-cat · Joined: May 13, 2006 Posts: 264

Putting aside Andrew Sullivan's obvious bias in this opinion piece,
he claims
"These lies are not in any dispute because they are factually checkable."

Is this statement correct....are they checkable....and is she guilty of making up stories, mis-spokes or as Sullivan puts it...telling lies?

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pasquanel · Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 398 Location: Maine

xavierx · Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 3871

What, you didn't expect anything but blogs and "news" articles that contradict themselves within the article, did you? You actually expected reasoned debate?
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Thanks, I needed a laugh!

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