as that implies using the same strategy of lies that she and McCain employ, when in fact the gist of the article was checking the facts behind her mostly false (or at least hyperbolic) statements.
All the same, it didn't paint her in a very positive light. Petty and boastful. What else had she been told to lie about?
Palin talks about voluntarily lowering her pay as mayor of Wasilla (from $68k to $64k, I believe), but she doesn't mention having to hire a city manager to actually do the job of managing the town's day-to-day business or the fact that the manager's salary resulted in nearly a net doubling of the cost of running the mayor's office in Wasilla.
(1) Exaggerating her experience as mayor (2) Exaggerating her "voluntary pay cut"
If they hadn't been doing the media's job for them for the last 8 years, (it took them this long to remember how to do it), do you think we'd have this kind of fact-checking?
As another example, last night's Colbert Report is the ONLY place I've seen on television where someone has ridiculed McCain for his rationalization for his negative ads, saying the tone of the campaign would be different if Obama had only agreed to do joint town halls. Colbert skewered him. (I won't be holding my breath to see it anywhere else.)
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