Liar liar pants on fire
The McCain campaign is like a guy leaning over the edge of a dock, seeing just how far he can stretch without falling in. With lie after lie they stretch the truth, manipulate the media, and mislead the people.
Palin’s statements about her opposition to the “Bridge to Nowhere” are demonstrably false. And she still hasn’t given back the money.
The most recent McCain ad “Lipstick” so obviously distorts Obama’s comments, changing his “lipstick on a pig” line about dressing up the same old Bush economic policy, trying to instead say he was calling Palin a pig. Then they use this distortion to label Barack Obama a sexist.
The list goes on, but for how much longer? Eventually the weight and shamelessness of their mendacity will infuse a new media narrative: McCain will say anything to win.
If they keep pushing lies on the people, if they keep stretching the truth, if they keep leaning further over the dock the media will report that the McCain campaign is “all wet”.
Comment by tet on 10 September 2008 at 1:22 pm:
Ah, rumor #59.
Here’s the real story from the Anchorage Daily News. She changed her mind about the bridge funding when the costs skyrocketed.
I would assume that it’s a good idea when someone who is mistaken changes their mind in a way that is now right, right?
Oh, and that non-returned money? It wasn’t for the bridge at all, but for a three mile road on Gravina Island costing $25 million that the state legislature insisted they keep the Federal funds for. It’s intended to go to the bridge if and when it’s built with Alaskan state funds.
Oh, and before someone comes in here talking about how she did it to link her star to McCain and the new GOP, I should remind you that at the time she did it, she had met McCain twice and his poll numbers were at their lowest. Not ambition, just good common sense.
BTW, you should all read Camille Paglia (not a conservative by anyone’s standards) in her Salon article today about how Sarah Palin represents the future of feminism.
Bwah-ha-ha, chuckle. I’m starting to really love this.
Tom
Comment by Joshua on 10 September 2008 at 1:28 pm:
Can you offer any defense of the lipstick ad?
Comment by Anonymous on 10 September 2008 at 1:32 pm:
you are a mongrel
Comment by tet on 10 September 2008 at 1:39 pm:
Nah, I just figure we ought to let Palin’s husband and Barack go to it in a cage match. That should solve the problem.
Tom