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Facts Are Stupid Things
Eschaton — Wonder how long John McCain will keep lying about this. When John McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate Friday, her reputation as a tough-minded budget-cutter was front and center. "I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere," Palin told the cheering McCain crowd, referring to Ketchikan's Gravina Island bridge. But Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it.

Campaign to Nowhere
Hoffmania! — ... Seems someone liked the bridge to nowhere before she hated it. The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines. "I think that's when the campaign for national office began," said ...

More on BridgeToNowhereGate: The Road to Nowhere
The Reality-Based Community — ... McClatchy scores again! Not only does the story include the obvious (but, as far as I know, previously used except in this space) "for it before she was against it," and not only does it call Palin on the misrepresentation she made at her rollout, but it provides one delicious new detail: The state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone — because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government. So the governor, who decided to spend the federal ...

9/2: Scrutinizing Sarah
Blogometer — ... "to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor" and initially supported the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere." Conservative bloggers, on the other hand, remain excited about Palin. ...

McCain Didn’t Google Deep Enough
The Moderate Voice — ... The list keeps growing–the ethics investigation of her firing the state’s public safety commissioner for not firing her former brother-in-law; her membership in a party that advocated Alaskan secession from the Union; her support for the Bridge to Nowhere before opposing it, along with such ...

Sarah Palin meets -- and lies -- to America
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."She's been lying about the "Bridge to Nowhere" for days now. She's like George Bush -- just keep repeating the lie. From the August 31st Anchorage Daily News: Palin touts stance on 'Bridge to Nowhere,' doesn't note ...