Eugene Robinson: Palin Keeps Lying, and Lying, and …

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from Truthdig:




Palin Keeps Lying, and Lying, and …

Posted on Sep 15, 2008
By Eugene Robinson



What kind of person tells a self-aggrandizing lie, gets called on it, admits publicly that the truth is not at all what she originally claimed—and then goes out and starts telling the original lie again without changing a word?

Sarah Palin is beginning to seem like quite an unusual woman, and I’m not talking about her love of guns and “snow machines,” her faith, her family or any of the presumably non-elite attributes that we in the “elite media” are accused of savaging. Wrongly accused, I should add; reporters are doing nothing more sinister than trying to find out who she is, how she thinks and what she has done in office.

One deeply troubling thing we’re learning about Palin is that, as far as she’s concerned, unambiguous fact doesn’t appear to rise even to the level of inconvenience.

I’m sorry, but to explain my point I have to make another visit—my last, I hope—to the never-built, $398-million “Bridge to Nowhere” that was to join the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, with its airport on the other side of the Tongass Narrows.

You’ll recall that in her Republican convention speech, Palin burnished her budget-hawk credentials by claiming she had said “thanks but no thanks” to a congressional earmark that would have paid most of the cost. A quick check of the public record showed that Palin supported the bridge when she was running for governor, continued to support it once she took office and dropped her backing only after the project—by then widely ridiculed as an example of pork-barrel spending—was effectively dead on Capitol Hill. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080916_palin_keeps_lying_and_lying_and/

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1. She seems pretty ordinary to me. Denial is not just a river in Egypt, and it's common as can be. nt

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2. McC/P is a new moral low, even for politics.

Other people who disdain the truth that much are at least better at hiding it. Or bother to.