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Chris Wallace Fact-Checks Sarah Palin’s Bogus ‘Bridge To Nowhere’ Claims
Think Progress —
Since accepting Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) offer to be his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has lied about her supposed opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere in nearly every single campaign appearance:
Palin claimed she “championed reform of earmark spending by Congress, and I told the Congress thanks but no thanks on that ‘Bridge to Nowhere,’” she said, ommiting [sic] mention that she’d campaigned for governor supporting the bridge. [Albuquerque, NM, 9/6/08]
PALIN: And I’ve championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told ...
Chris? Is That You In There?
Hoffmania! —
Going after McCain-Palin's lies and exaggerations seems to have become a game that not even Fox News can resist playing. Fun, isn't it, Chris Wallace? Here he is with McCain campaign genius Rick Davis.
Sarah Palin and the Fourth Estate
Comments from Left Field —
As most people know, the Fourth Estate is the press — the first, second, and third estates being the religious establishment (the clergy), the secular establishment (nobles), and the common people. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle, in the first half of the nineteenth century; Carlyle himself attributed it to Edmund Burke, who lived in the eighteenth century, and who is reported to have said, looking up at the press gallery in the House of Commons: “Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all.”
They still are, although they often don’t act like they understand their role ...
