McCain/Palin ticket is testing whether US is ready to enter into a new dimension of political lying

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/091308.html

Will McCain-Palin Lies Hurt Them?

By Robert Parry
September 13, 2008


Despite all the chatter about how “historic” Campaign 2008 has been, it is the McCain-Palin ticket that it is truly testing the limits, not of race or gender politics, but whether the United States is ready to enter into a new dimension of political lying.

Until two weeks ago, it would have been hard to believe that any political figure would have had the audacity to step into the national spotlight by telling the bald-faced lies that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has. Yet, many Americans have embraced her enthusiastically and don’t want to hear anything negative about her.

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But Palin is not alone in simply denying reality. Her partner, John McCain, has shown his own ability to not blush while lying.

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McCain now seems to have located a soul-mate in Sarah Palin, who shares McCain’s assuredness in making public statements that are clear-cut lies and then insisting they are absolute truth.

The only remaining question is how well this strategy will work.

[morningglory]

1. At long last, something has broken.

I have seen it all. This is just beyond belief. We have known all along that Rove's philosophy is: "just lie, the press will cover for you." Repeat the lie 3 times to "catapult the propaganda", as GW*bush said one time. Makes me feel we are in a dream. After the bushes have killed so many people, they put out propaganda about how many people and kittens the Clintons have killed, so even if we suspect there are lies in there somewhere, it just looks mundane. More mundane lies.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Maybe this time the American people will notice that the GOP is lying.

:banghead:

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Let's hope so...without a free press, propaganda is running rampant.

[NorthwestNut]

4. Yeah, it's scary...

to see politicians get away with saying things that are not only deceptive, but flat out lies. I think the root of the problem is the lack of any real journalism being done in the corporate media..

Go Obama! :)