> Is Sarah Palin a Pathological Liar?
>
> Will McCain / Palin lie their way into the White House?
>
> Running on a Lie
> By Eugene RobinsonTuesday, September 16, 2008; Page A21
>
> What kind of person tells a self-aggrandizing lie, gets called on it,
> admits publicly that the truth is not at all what she originally
> claimed -- and then goes out and starts telling the original lie again
> without changing a word?
>
> Sarah Palin is beginning to seem like quite an unusual woman, and I'm
> not talking about her love of guns and "snow machines," her faith, her
> family or any of the presumably non-elite attributes that we in the
> "elite media" are accused of savaging. Wrongly accused, I should add;
> reporters are doing nothing more sinister than trying to find out who
> she is, how she thinks and what she has done in office.
>
> One deeply troubling thing we're learning about Palin is that, as far
> as she's concerned, unambiguous fact doesn't appear to rise even to
> the level of inconvenience.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR200...
>
> Press picks over litter of lies on the Palin trail
>
> Anne Davies Washington Correspondent
> September 16, 2008
>
> THE Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, and his running
> mate, Sarah Palin, have come under intense pressure over distortions
> and half-truths.
>
> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/15/1221330749077.html
>
> The Overreach
> by Jeff Fecke, September 16, 2008 • One thing that I’ve found
> interesting in the past week has been the zeal with which the McCain
> campaign has gone with the “lying to the American people” strategy.
> Whether it’s choosing to have Sarah Palin continue repeating the
> “Bridge to Nowhere” lie or John McCain running ads against Obama that
> are chock-ful-o-lies, the McCain camp decided last week to go all-in
> on the lying strategy, betting that the Obama campaign and, more
> important, the press wouldn’t call the bluff.
>
> But both did. And the lies were so audacious, so over-the-top, so
> clearly lies that the press has taken a giant step back from John
> McCain, and granted him the adversarial relationship he’s been
> claiming in the face of all evidence.http://www.southtownstar.com/news/hantschel/1165133,091608hantschel.a...
>
> The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin II: The Bridge To Nowhere
> Andrew Sullivan
>
> 15 Sep 2008 10:41 am
>
> In her speeches, Sarah Palin routinely and repeatedly uses the phrase:
> "I told the Congress 'thanks, but no thanks,' for that Bridge to
> Nowhere." In the McCain-Palin ads, the claim is that she "stopped the
> Bridge to Nowhere."
>
> These are, again, demonstrable lies.
>
> http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-lies...
>
> Palin needs to work on her lying
> Allison Hantschel
> September 16, 2008
>
> If you're going to lie in politics, make it a good one.
>
> Sarah Palin ought to say she built the Bridge to Nowhere with her own
> two hands, hewing it out of wood with an ax. Think she's not tough
> enough to handle Vladimir Putin NOW?
>
> If you're going to lie, make it a big one.
>
> She ought to say she went into Iraq undercover, in order to perform a
> stealth mission only a hockey mom could accomplish. What that mission
> might be? She could tell you, but then she'd have to hip check you to
> death.
>
> If you're going to lie, make it a worthwhile lie. Make it a lie that
> helps, rather than hurts you. Make it a lie about something that
> matters. Don't do what Sarah Palin's doing, which is to lie about
> things that are so stupid, so easily disproved, so -- cheap, as to
> make the act of lying about them unnecessary
>
> http://www.southtownstar.com/news/hantschel/1165133,091608hantschel.a...
>
> Palin lies could lead to Bridge to Oblivion
>
> By Jay Bookman | Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 12:50 PM
>
> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
>
> Sarah Palin is out on the campaign trail, this time in Ohio, still
> repeating the lie that she rejected federal funding for that infamous
> bridge in Alaska.
>
> “I told Congress, ‘Thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere up
> in Alaska,” she said in a speech today. “If our state wanted a bridge,
> we were gonna built it ourselves.”
>
> Yet even today’s Wall Street Journal, that bastion of liberal, pro-
> terrorist, anti-American ideology, reaches the only conclusion
> possible on the facts available:
>
> “Despite significant evidence to the contrary, the McCain campaign
> continues to assert that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told the federal
> government ‘thanks but no thanks’ to the now-famous bridge to an
> island in her home state….,” the Journal states.
>
> http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/bookman/entries/200...
>
> 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 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.
>
> http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/091308.html
>
> The Media Call McCain and Palin on Their Trail of Lies
>
> Newsday Posted September 15, 2008
>
> A rundown of 25 responses in the media to McCain and Palin's bald-
> faced lies from the past two weeks.
>
> The McCain campaign has spent the last couple weeks making claims and
> accusations of dubious accuracy, mocking independent fact checkers,
> and telling everyone who will listen that the "media filter" doesn't
> matter.
>
> They better hope they're right, because they're getting a lot of
> pushback:
>
> http://www.alternet.org/election08/98761/the_media_call_mccain_and_pa...
>
> McCain, Palin defiant in 'lies' storm
>
> September 15, 2008
>
> WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin stand
> accused Monday of trying to "lie" their way into the White House with
> discredited claims and advertising -- and it's not just outgunned
> Democrats crying foul.
>
> Non-partisan fact-check operations, newspapers and opinion columnists
> are also charging McCain, once a darling of the press, of cloaking the
> election in sleaze and unfairly smearing Democrat Barack Obama.
>
> http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hjO6YPkd2LcstrGwzE3p9bRY7k0g
>
> Lies on the Campaign Trail 2008: McCain/Palin set new low standards
> by Dave Stancliff
> (Libertarian)
> Monday, September 15, 2008
>
> Strategic lies day after day.
> The Republicans have found their voice in this corrosive campaign at
> last. It doesn't matter if the lies are exposed, because they just go
> on to new lies.
>
> Sometimes they don't even bother, and continue to lie hoping it will
> resonate with desperate voters that don't bother seeking the truth
> about a candidate's claim.
>
> http://www.nolanchart.com/article4887.html
>
> Palin Hits Trail Alone But Armed With Lies
>
> By Tommy Christoper
>
> Sep 15th 2008 7:35PM
>
> Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential selectee Sarah Palin
> hit the campaign trail today, making her first stop outside her home
> state without John McCain. From: the AP:
>
> Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said Monday she would
> concentrate on energy, government reform and helping families with
> special needs children if Republicans win the White House this fall,
> and drew cheers when she said, "too often government is the problem"
> rather than the solution.
>
> During her appearance, in Golden, CO, she repeated discredited
> whoppers like telling congress "Thanks, but no thanks" for the Bridge
> to Nowhere, and misrepresentations of Obama's tax plan that even Fox
> News can't stomach.
>
> She also rolled out a fresh one that calls into question one of the
> three legs on her vice presidential stool. She said that Alaska has
> nearly 20%% of America's supply of gas and oil. Oh, facts, why do you
> hate McCain and Palin so?
>
> http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/15/palin-hits-trail-alo...
>
> McCain has become a serial liar
>
> TOM TEEPEN
>
> The grit and commitment of John McCain's near martyrdom as a POW in
> Hanoi 40 years ago were admirable, as have been his occasional
> apostasies from partisan orthodoxy and his willingness at times to
> join ad hoc bipartisan efforts to push Congress out of this or that
> stalemate.
>
> But, as a presidential candidate, McCain has become a liar, a serial
> liar at that, and not through any inadvertence but quite deliberately.
>
> Barack Obama has had his falls from grace, too, as when he twisted a
> comment of McCain's to make it seem McCain was up for a hundred years
> of war in Iraq. Nor was that Obama's sole lapse.
>
> But McCain's lies overwhelm in their number, calculation and cynicism.
> Lately he has been on a rampage of untruths.
>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/379185_teepenonline16.html
>
> Eh, 20 percent, 3.5 percent, who's counting?
>
> McCain/Palin energy lie about Alaska the latest to come in for media
> scrutiny
>
> Posted by David Roberts at 11:43 AM on 15 Sep 2008
>
> To repeat: This assertion from the McCain/Palin campaign is
> demonstrably false, based on U.S. government sources. It's been
> debunked several times. And yet they keep repeating it.
>
> Why repeat lies? McCain spokesman Brian Rogers offered some insight in
> a quote to Politico: "We're running a campaign to win. And we're not
> too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it."
>
> Will the aggressive, unapologetic lying work?
>
> http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/14/15525/3030
>
> This is a Low: McCain Campaign Least Honorable in Memory
>
> When evil genius Karl Rove says a fellow Republican is stretching the
> truth, then you know it’s bad. Rove, who was trained in the Lee
> Atwater hothouse of low-ball politics, also criticized Obama, which is
> unsurprising. Of ...
>
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