mudflats.wordpress.com - 8/31/2008
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Perhaps the brain was still a little fuzzy from the shock of McCain’s new VP pick, Alaska’s own governor Sarah Palin. Perhaps it was still stuck in the endless loop of wondering - why? why? why? Whatever the reason, it took more than 24 hours for Palin’s first big untruth ...
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Respecting Alaska's Blogs--Mudflats On Palin's "Bridge To Nowhere" Lie
Open Left - Front Page —
... sort of lie from a local perspective. Who among us has not had the experience of hearing a lie spread wide which we know ahead of time is a lie, but have virtually no power to speak against? And isn't it one of the joys of the intertubes that we can at least tell someone, and they, perhaps can tell someone else? And someone else again? Well, why shouldn't Open Left be that someone else? Especially when Mudflats brings us the diary, "Palin is McCain's Bridge to Nowhere. Thanks, But No Thanks.": ...
Palin’s “Bridge to Nowhere”: Fiscally responsible or politically expedient?
Flopping Aces —
... As the anti-Palin blogger, Mudracker quotes from an old 9-28-06 issue of the Ketchikan Daily News, the then campaigning Sarah Palin was not about to get in the way of the Congressional efforts. ...
Judgment, Experience, Honor, Country: McCain’s Epic Palin Fail
Firedoglake —
... if you've really chosen someone else. Don't set your running mate up to tell untruths about the "bridge to nowhere" on her very first day. Don't try to tell us ...
My RNC Grab Bag: 09/01/08
Firedoglake —
... ) at the Alaskan blog The Mudflats. The proprietor has already bested the national media by catching Palin in a big fat lie involving the Bridge to Nowhere. ...
If You Want to Get Techincal...
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... Let's be clear. Palin's repeated claims are not "technically" true, or "metaphorically" true or "spiritually" true or true in any sense at all. They're unequivocal, bald-faced lies (although Ambinder's phrasing obscures this fact.")To review, Palin's claim was: "I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that Bridge to Nowhere." But: ...
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From NBC/NJ's Mike MemoliTOLEDO, Ohio -- Joe Biden is already conceding one thing to Sarah Palin.
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