Palin repeats her "No thanks" to 'bridge to nowhere" lie.

[Liberal_in_LA]

Usually a politician will drop the lie once called on it. Not Palin.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/07/Palin_repeats_no_thanks_bridge_account/UPI-53721220764618/

Palin repeats 'no thanks' bridge account

Palin said she was "surprised" Obama raised the subject, ABC News reported.

"I didn't think he'd want to go there," she said. "Our opponent has requested nearly $1 billion in earmarks in just three years. That's about a million dollars, about a million dollars for every working day."

Palin then repeated a claim she has made often since Republican nominee John McCain announced her as his running mate -- that she "told the Congress thanks but no thanks on that 'Bridge to Nowhere.'" Palin did not mention that she supported the bridge during her campaign for governor, ABC said.

[orestes]

1. Repeating it often enough makes it true

at least in the minds of a significant enough number of voters

[Marsala]

2. Okay, that cuts it.

Time to bust out the L word.

[casus belli]

3. Obama was right yet again...

They DO think we're stupid.

The MSM needs to call her out on this crap. I can't understand why they're pulling punches on statements that are quite easy to discredit. Maybe they're holding out until they get an ooportunity to actually give her an interview and don't want to ruin any pending opportunities to do so.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Network nightly news called McCain on the lie about the jet "she sold it on ebay for a profit

They explained that the jet didn't sell on ebay and eventually sold for a loss.

[casus belli]

8. True, but I think she's been largely given a pass...

if any of these factoids had surfaced about Obama, and were so easily verified, you can bet it would be plastered across every major news source.

They're playing softball with her. All that remains to be seen is....why?

[sandnsea]

13. We Let Them

This is what they do. We blame our candidates instead of the media. They won't stop until we hold them accountable. They are more afraid of the power of the right than they are of us. We have to shake them up.

[Bobbie Jo]

4. Oh yeah, chimpette, let's go there...

What a tool...:eyes:

[Eric J in MN]

5. Shameless. She never told Congress not to earmark money for the bridge. NT

NT

[TwilightGardener]

7. LOL! What an ignorant skank--

Obama's not against earmarks as a rule--that's the only way some important things get funded, and she knows it. SHE is trying to build a reputation of opposing them, after years of begging for them. Caught in a lie--eat it, you nasty piece of shit.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Well, if she eliminated all the lies and deception from her speech, she'd have nothing left to say

Give her a break, hunh?

[dkf]

10. She kept the money for the bridge to nowhere. Liar.

[asdjrocky]

11. What was it bush said?

"Ya gotta catapult the propaganda." I swear to god if any of this crap works on America again then we're getting what we deserve.

[crimsonblue]

12. Look at per capita earmarks

and she loses big time. Obama's state has many millions of people, while Wasilla has 9000. Obama has requested no earmarks for the current fiscal year, something Obama can't say. And while Palin may have said no to the bridge, she didn't mind keeping the federal money. Where did that money go, Sarah?