Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: Campaign to Nowhere
September 10, 2008
As amazing as Sarah Palin's lack of qualifications for VP is her serial lying on the road. Like a person with a serious case of Tourette’s, she seems unable (or not allowed) to utter anything but the same speech from her hit show in St. Paul. Worse, she seems fine with repeating a series of statements now thoroughly debunked by the press. The marquee lie is the one about opposing pork spending, such as a "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska. The fact is that she supported this project, and others, for the better part of the time. How can this gang have no shame about this? Perhaps the answer is that they don't need to be inconvenienced by reason, when they have seen elections won by cultural radar, with a big wink to a well-organized band of, well...pick a noun.
MSNBC last night:
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According to FactCheck.org
"Palin would have been more ac curate to have told the story as her having said “yes” then “no” to building the bridge fr om Alaska’s sparsely populated Gravina Island to Ketchikan. Palin originally supported the bridge project in 2006. And C ongress sent her the money without requiring that she spend it on the project. So Palin co uld have chosen to spend the money on the bridge. But she didn’t. Instead, she chose to spend it on other projects." http://www.factcheck.org/just-the-facts/the_partys_over.html