Palin even LIED about Miss Congeniality award.

[Matariki]

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/debpeterson/story/23D7A0CF8A2E3A61862574B50011DB30?OpenDocument

Amy Gwin, 43, of University City, grew up in Alaska and competed in the Miss Wasilla, Alaska, competition in 1984 against GOP vice presidential choice Sarah Palin. Gwin said Friday that she won the Miss Congeniality award in the competition, although Palin's Wikipedia entry says she won the contest — and the Miss Congeniality award.

And school accomplishments:
Gwin, who was president of her class, does not recall Palin holding school office. The Wikipedia entry on Palin said she was head of the school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes and captain of the basketball team.

AND her Wikipedia entry got a good 'scrubbing' 24 hours before McCain's announcement:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4653971.ece

A lying liar. Right at home in the Republican party. The laugh is how petty these lies are, but given how thin her resume is...

[Eric J in MN]

1. Sarah Palin didn't write her Wikipedia entry.

If the entry is wrong in saying that she won "Miss Congeniality" that isn't Sarah Palin's fault (unless she has lied about it elsewhere.)

[Matariki]

4. Her entry was REWRITTEN 24 hours before McCain made his announcement

by author 'Young Trig' and you honestly believe they had nothing to to with it.

She's a liar. And a crappy one at that.

[Eric J in MN]

5. If you're asking if I believe that Sarah Palin edited her Wikipedia page...

...or asked someone to, no I don't believe that.

[Matariki]

10. How niave are you? You don't think politician's agents edit Wikipedia?

:rofl:

Especially when it's well documented that SOMEONE made over 30 positive edits to her entry within 24 hours before the announcement?

Are you REALLY that gullible?

Here, from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94118849

Palin's Wikipedia Entry Gets Overhaul

If you happened to check Sarah Palin's Wikipedia entry Thursday, you might have had a good tip about Friday's announcement.

Someone — and apparently it was just one person — felt like the existing biography wasn't appropriate for a vice-presidential candidate.

On Friday, 15 minutes before the rumor that John McCain had picked Palin as his running mate, a Wikipedia editor discovered 30 mostly favorable changes had been made to the Alaska governor's profile.

[Eric J in MN]

12. I didn't write that "politician's agents" don't edit Wikipedia.

I wrote that I don't believe that Sarah Palin told someone to edit her Wikipedia entry.

I don't know if she's familiar with Wikipedia.

[Matariki]

13. Ha. She's a LIAR. And her LIES range from petty to serious.

You'll see. In the coming days, her lies are going to get aired.

From 'The Bridge to Nowhere', to firing Walt Monegan for not doing her bidding, to petty crap like rewriting Wikipedia entries and claiming the Miss Congeniality title.

What a laugh this all is.

[Breeze54]

14. How do you know if she wrote it or not?

Anyone can edit and write in Wikipedia.

[Bluebear]

21. No. "YoungTrigg" did

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6858603&mesg_id=6858603

[NM Independent]

37. I'll try to find it, but I've seen her mention it on video...

I know I've heard HER say it.


EDIT: Wait, I thought Miss Congeniality was some type of runner up kind of prize. Didn't she win that contest, and then go on to the state contest? Maybe she won Miss Congeniality there?

[Strelnikov_]

2. That's not very congenial n/t

[HEyHEY]

3. Well, WIKIPEDIA lied

[Matariki]

7. Editing - and re-editing - Sarah Palin's Wikipedia entry

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/01/business/link.php

In the 24 hours before the McCain campaign put the finishing touches on its surprise announcement Friday that Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska would be the Republican vice presidential candidate, one Wikipedia user was putting the finishing touches on her biography on the site.

Beginning at 2 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, a Wikipedia user with the name YoungTrigg began an overhaul of the article. The user added compelling stories about her upbringing, including that "she earned the nickname 'Sarah Barracuda' because of her intense play" as point guard for her high school basketball team and that she and her father "would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school."

In total, YoungTrigg - whose moniker is a reference to Palin's infant son, Trig - made 30 "edits" to the article, all positive and largely unnoticed, since they came at a time when few were discussing her as a possible running mate to Senator John McCain.

The coincidence of the user's name, and the sudden spurt of activity just before news broke of McCain's choice, has raised suspicions that YoungTrigg was a campaign operative tasked to make sure that Palin's Wikipedia article was ready for prime time, much as handlers have been assigned to do the same for the candidate.

[HEyHEY]

8. "Intense play" is that why she's always pregnant? Anyway, that's all specualtion not fact

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I think I'm going to forward this to Countdown!!!! lol!!!!!

[Fleshdancer]

9. HAHAHA!!!

If it's not true and if Palin's people weren't the ones to claim it in wikipedia, then certainly they would have changed it by now, right?

Wikipedia sources this article for the congeniality thing: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/mccain-surprises-palin-pick/story.aspx?guid={BA5FEDF2-42BA-496B-A3ED-511268BD02A1}

[RufusTFirefly]

15. The Marketwatch story can't even spell her hometown right

So I'm not surprised that it got other information wrong as well.

[Fleshdancer]

16. and I'm suspicious that they got this info from wikipedia

the history and discussion pages on this wikipedia site are so long, I don't know if I'll be able to find if this was the original source for this claim.

Either way, I'm laughing my a** off!

[lpbk2713]

11. Who'da guessed it?

A lying rethuglican!! :eyes:

Does she have a wide stance too? :rofl:

[Wilber_Stool]

17. It's McCain that I'm worried about.

Shouldn't we at least have a president that's smart enough to know someone that's smart enough to be vice president? That's not asking too much. The choice of VP is being made from the shadows. Just whose puppet is he?

[Matariki]

18. THAT'S an interesting question. Who Vetted Palin

Have you seen THIS?:

(lots of links to this, but here's one: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352178/ultra_secretive_right_wing_group_met_in_minn_to_vet_palin)

Ultra-Secretive Right-Wing Group Met In Minn. To Vet Palin

Last week, while the media focused almost obsessively on the DNC's spectacle in Denver, the country's most influential conservatives met quietly at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis to get to know Sarah Palin. The assembled were members of the Council for National Policy, an ultra-secretive cabal that networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy.

CNP members have included Tony Perkins, James Dobson, Grover Norquist, Tim LaHaye and Paul Weyrich. At a secret 2000 meeting of the CNP, George W. Bush promised to nominate only pro-life judges; in 2004, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told the group, "The destiny of the nation is on the shoulders of the conservative movement." This year, thanks to Sarah Palin's selection, the movement may have finally aligned itself behind the campaign of John McCain.

[Joanne98]

35. Yeah!

[alfredo]

19. She has lawyered up. When she is under oath, she will have to tell

the truth. It might make her break out in hives, but she must tell the truth.

[Festivito]

20. It's in my mind as a somewhat sarcastic quip.

She is an opinionated woman, and it could be a joke that she would get a congeniality award. At least among people who know her.

It might have been a media mistake, rather than hers.

We have bigger fish to fry with her.

I'm thinking she'll pull out, or they both will. NOTE: We'll be hurting then.

[Matariki]

22. My point being, she's a LIAR. At every level.

Her list of discovered lies is growing longer by the day.

And frankly, I'm amused to watch the melt down. It reinforces everything the Republican Party has shown itself to be these past couple decades. Liar, hypocrites, and willing to break laws to further their own agenda.

[Festivito]

24. If I'm right then she DID NOT lie about the congeniality award.

Yes, Republicans tend to be thieving lying hypocrites. Let's not have ourselves descend to their level.

[Matariki]

26. So what are you saying, one of her (or McCain's) operatives edited Wikipedia

the night before the announcement, and the Miss Congeniality thing wasn't a lie but a 'sarcastic quip'? An 'inside joke'?

Is THAT what you're saying?

[Festivito]

34. It might have stemmed from a quip.

Not that it was quipped in writing. It might have then been the recollection of someone else. It might not have been her, herself who edited those lines prior to the announcement.

Again, her nickname was Sarah Barracuda. It rather much opposes a congenial image. It would fit a scenario of sarcasm. These people do not seem bright, and could mistake such a quip.

I'm just not ready to call it a lie. If you are, that's you. It seems untrue according to an article refering to the real winner per said article, Guin, who's referenced wiki entry wiki, google, and I could not find.

[rebel with a cause]

31. I believe she was Miss Congeniality

in the Miss Alaska contest, in which she lost the title and came in second. this was in an article that was sited on a thread yesterday. If that article was accurate or not, I cannot say.

[Matariki]

32. Not according to the woman who WON the title.

"Amy Gwin, 43, of University City, grew up in Alaska and competed in the Miss Wasilla, Alaska, competition in 1984 against GOP vice presidential choice Sarah Palin. Gwin said Friday that she won the Miss Congeniality award in the competition, although Palin's Wikipedia entry says she won the contest — and the Miss Congeniality award."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/debpeterson/story/23D7A0CF8A2E3A61862574B50011DB30?OpenDocument

I guess research would have to be done to see who is lying.

[rebel with a cause]

33. That was the Miss Wasilla contest

not the Miss Alaska contest. palin won the Miss Wasilla contest but came in second in the Miss Alaska one.

[Tutonic]

23. Oh this gift just keeps getting better! Rush and Dobson should

be loving it too!!!! Bwhaaaa!

[Matariki]

25. Amazing that Dobson 'vetted' her for McCain

guess she lied to him too? Or not. Maybe they planned on spinning the teen pregnancy thing in a noble light all along?

[spanone]

27. not ready for prime time

[seabeyond]

28. they were scrubbing those clean friday, day of announcement.

there was also a picture of her family where daughter looked preg. no date. we were trying to figure the date when out of blue we are told by posters the picture dated 2006. so she couldnt be preg with trig.

a person yesterday showed the two caption, showing the change

[Matariki]

29. Oh, Palin is SO screwn!

:rofl:

I am SO amused by this. I hope it takes a few weeks for her to 'resign' This is just too easy.

And I LOVE the fact that Dobson 'vetted' her. Means their power is slipping.

[seabeyond]

30. with ya on all that. a couple weeks of this and drain EVERYTHING out of repug voters

they are not real enthused as it is with mccain. after bush and cheney and all the repug lies and corruption, they wont have the energy to go vote

[Matariki]

36. So, apparently an overenthusiastic McCain supporter" rewrote the Wiki article

But as an astute commenter on DailyKos points out:

'"YoungTrigg" is "just a volunteer" of the McCain campaign who has psychic abilities, it appears. How else would "YoungTrigg" know before even the media that McCain was selecting Palin as his running mate --the only reason one would have for editing her diary."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/1/101230/4834/746/582005


Team McCain/Palin just keep piling on the lies. It's so amusing to watch. They're BOTH going to get hung out to dry.