Perhaps its age or the daunting schedule. But Senator John McCain’s attempt to smear Barack Obama over the lipstick and pig comment blew back badly today. The media began playing excerpts of Arizona’s senior senator using that exact phrase in the exact context half a dozen times.
And unfortunately for the 72 year old maverick. They also caught him discussing the infamous bridge to nowhere, on a day when reporters dug up and ran video of Sarah praising that self same bridge she still claims she was against. But getting caught in that lie was nothing compared to the newest revelations concerning the GOP Veep’s actions in trooper gate.
Newly released court transcripts reveal Sarah Palin, and her entire family were admonished by a judge from the bench to stop harassing the trooper. Seems even before she was Governor, Sarah was making up stories and truth twisting in an attempt to get her ex-Brother in law fired, actions the Judge called child abuse! A lesson to future republican presidential candidates, doing a quick Google of your choice does not a vetting make.
It would seem the mainstream media’s initial infatuation with Alaska’s Governor is collapsing under an avalanche of hard fact. Truth that starkly contradicts reformist claims on the stump. We now know she lied about the bridge to nowhere, she lied about having sold a state jet on e-bay and she lied about trooper gate.Â
Today we learned the hockey Mom Governor who loves to drive herself home from work, has been caught with her hand in the expense pad cookie jar. Records released reveal she was submitting sixty dollar a day per-Diem vouchers for travel nights she was actually at home. And it couldn’t have been some innocent clerical mistake of perhaps forgetting where she was once or twice over the course of a busy year, Nope the reform Governor padded her expense account more than three hundred separate times on that scheme alone.
With the singular exception of media sources owned by Sir Rupert Murdoch, reporters and journalists are beginning to uncover conflicts of interest and errors in good judgement that John McCain’s vetting team would surely have come across if they had spent more than a couple hours Googling her on a laptop.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThanks for the article. The sadest part of this revelation is that the TRUTH does not derail the GOP. You are going to have people commenting on you article calling you sexist and claiming that it is untrue. Unfortunately, it seems those people love their misery. They are fighting for a party that is not concerned for their well being, has lied to them and cheated them all in the name of country. I pray that some that read your article will at least think for themselves and research the issues and then cast a vote accordingly.
psb–You have some of the best writing on this site. I did not see any of the stories you referenced here on GoogleNews pages this morning, but you’ve raised very important issues. Thanks for the great post. –Mark Mercer
Not only does this unabashedly left-wing editorial hit piece use the half-truths, truth-twisting and lies of which it accuses Gov. Palin, it offers absolutely no proof as to where the writer got the “information” to accuse Gov. Palin of the things listed. Site your sources, if you can! The replies and comments sections of Daily Kos, Huffington Post and MS/NBC don’t count…
Your article started with the premise that McCain is making much out of nothing (something on which many might agree), and quickly became just another tirade of lies and truth-twisting against Gov. Palin. We’ve seen a lot of that lately. It looks like Gov. Palin’s gotten deep, deep into the psyche of many on the left. Are you even discussing or arguing the issues anymore?
The sheer number of grammatical errors in this piece alone left me shaking my head. The rest left me rolling my eyes. The left is running scared and in a panic… I’m not surprised about that. But the overt lack of subtly and the transparency of it does raise the eyebrows a bit.
Tamara- There is video of McCain’s use of the phrase on three seperate campaign stumps and video of Palin in an interview, as well as, her campaigning for the Bridge to no where in 2006. The court transcripts and a recording are available(do a search), in fact a post on the blog site has a link to the recording. Before you comment you should research FOR YOURSELF. The “left” as you call them are Americans whom are able to express opinions and views. With your angry post it would seem you are the one who is rattled. What are the issues you are voting on? Tell us all what issues matter to you?
Tamara -Here is one source, it took about 3 seconds to find numerous sources on this one topic-TRY IT!!!
The $60-a-day allowance is available for state employees when traveling on official state business to cover meals and other sundry expenses. Ms. Palin’s per diems, which included some charges for partial days, totaled $17,059, from Dec. 4, 2006, when she took office, through June 30, 2008, the most recent data available, according to Sharon Leighow, a spokeswoman for the governor’s office. Ms. Palin’s salary is $125,000 a year.
Ms. Palin was able to receive the allotment while she was at home because her official “duty station” is listed as Juneau, the state capital, aides said. That allowed Ms. Palin to file for per diems while she was working out of her Anchorage office and commuting from her home about 45 miles away in Wasilla. Juneau is nearly 600 miles away.
The practice of billing for staying at home seems to be unusual. Many officials said it would not be allowed in their states, including California, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, as well as other jurisdictions. On the federal level, officials said members of Congress do not get per diem allowances for routine home visits.-NYTimes
Tamara- is newsweek good enough for ya!
Court records obtained by NEWSWEEK show that during the course of divorce hearings three years ago, Judge John Suddock heard testimony from an official of the Alaska State Troopers’ union about how Sarah Palin—then a private citizen—and members of her family, including her father and daughter, lodged up to a dozen complaints against Wooten with the state police. The union official told the judge that he had never before been asked to appear as a divorce-case witness, that the union believed family complaints against Wooten were “not job-related,” and that Wooten was being “harassed” by Palin and other family members.
Court documents show that Judge Suddock was disturbed by the alleged attacks by Palin and her family members on Wooten’s behavior and character. “Disparaging will not be tolerated—it is a form of child abuse,” the judge told a settlement hearing in October 2005, according to typed notes of the proceedings. The judge added: “Relatives cannot disparage either. If occurs [sic] the parent needs to set boundaries for their relatives.”
The “Troopergate” special investigator, former prosecutor Steve Branchflower, was hired by a unanimous vote of state legislative leaders. His mission: to investigate whether Palin fired Walter Monegan—her State Public Safety Commissioner (and the official in charge of the State Police)—when he refused to dismiss or open a new disciplinary investigation of Wooten after receiving complaints about him from Gov. Palin and her husband Todd. Initially, Palin indicated she would cooperate with the investigation. But more recently, a lawyer hired by the state to represent her in the case asked the Alaska Attorney General to request that a state personnel board conduct its own special-counsel inquiry and demanded that the state legislature back off.
At the heart of the continuing “Troopergate” flap is evidence that despite Judge Suddock’s warnings back in 2005 and 2006, Palin and her husband continued to make disparaging allegations against Wooten, even after she went to the statehouse. During her first security briefing with a representative of the state police, Palin and Todd were both asked whether they knew of any potential physical threats against them, according to a deposition taken from one of Palin’s top aides following her election in Nov. 2006. Both said the only threat they were aware of was posed by Wooten.
Trace you just don’t get it. We may as well be part of the so-called leftwing liberal media conspiracy.
Thats the problem with many of the wing nuts they just are too lazy to read do research and find the facts for themselves.
Most would rather rely on filtered news through the likes of Rush radio.
Rich- I can not believe what I witnessed today with the brief interview ABC did with Palin. She is completely unaware of the world outside of Alaska. The quick fire trigger to say she would start a war with Russia was outragous and we should all be scared if McCain gets elected. America will remain viewed as a bully and we will never get our great country back where we belong on the world stage. We are better than that war first, kill them all attitude, I pray that people wake up from their stuper!
In her interview it seemed clear she did not know what the “Bush Doctrine” was.
What is more alarming, the so-called liberal media is not all over her not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is.
Thanks GOP for effectively nuetering the so-called liberal media.
Yes, she also repeated her coached lines for several different questions. The fact that she repeated she did not “even blink”, “you can’t blink” is a telling sign that she is not a person that ever thinks she is wrong, just like Bush-stick with the plan no matter the cost or loss of life.
Beyond the media not playing their role, what is wrong with all these people that can not do any type of personal inquiry on their own? Is it true that grown adults make voting decisions with out research? I did not even buy a dog with out research!
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