AP Demolishes GOP Convention Lies
By SilentPatriot Wednesday Sep 03, 2008 7:00amAP reporter Jim Kuhnhenn tears apart piece by piece all the lies told by the Republicans at last night's convention. In other words, every word spoken is debunked.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Some examples:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."
THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."
Make sure to read the whole thing.
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin does a little demolition of his own.
And Will Bunch calls it Sarah Palin's Speech to Nowhere.
I hope America wakes up tomorrow and realizes that Sarah Palin's words were rousing -- and completely empty, that they offered no road map (let alone bridge) for America other than more of the bogus partisan name-calling that has gotten us into the mess that we're in now.
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empty words and name calling...welcome to the GOP!
you betcha!
frist sh
maybe not. she sucks big time.
Sarah lies? Nooooo!
Toobin nailed it, Palin was sarcastic and petty last night. She sounded like a 15-year-old brat to me.
By the way, I think it's time we started analyzing the lies in Obama's and Biden's DNC speeches.
1. Umm...
I'll think of something.
We have had eight years of a vice president who gave nothing but false snippy answers and opinions, we don't need another vice president with that same attitude for the next four years. That's not change.
I found her to be a snide, sarcastic, self absorbed creature. I want her on shows like Meet the Press. I want her asked the same questions they would ask Joe Biden. I want to see her in an adult situation where people expect more from her than an attitude.
McCain and his right-wing conservative bosses made a huge mistake last night. And did the Dems a big favor. Read more.
this aggression will not stand..........walter
To me, she is the worst example of a female in the political arena. Making fun of others achievements is not an admirable quality. She apparently has no fu*king idea what a community organizer does. If she did know, and said what she did anyway, she's a heartless soul.
The appeal of Obama is that he has a vision. What is the Repub vision for our country? We are so desperate for real leadership and by that I don't mean the "I'll follow him to the gates of Hell" type of rhetoric. What is wrong with us that we disparage thoughtful, insightful, intelligent people and elect the guy at the bottom of his class?
From the Huff link above:
"MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.
THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations."
That needs to be repeated every time she or McCain make that claim.
disgruntled @ 5:
But she's a Christian! Her son has a Jesus fish tatooed to his leg! She lies? This can't be!
Q:What would be the difference between a McCain administration and the Bush administration?
A: Lipstick
Why are they being so sexist? I mean can't they just give this woman a break, after all people who have been POW know a thing or two about picking trusting partners who can help lead our country, so to question a the soulmate of former POW like this is disgusting.
She should have spoke in tongues.
I wonder how many Americans who watched that speech last night and thought it was good woke up with sick feeling in the pits of their stomachs this morning.
The Democrats should have been ALL OVER that little tirade of lies, and called Bullshit as freely as those GOP'ers who thought they were unmiked.
It's said that an AP reporter has to do the Dems work for them.
Sadder that most news outlets won't pick up these facts or that story, for fear of appearing "librul"
dilly @ 16:
give her time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
well, turns out Palin did inspire women! after last night, my wife who is very cynical about politics was so fired up, she now plans of dusting off the voter registration card and heading to the polls.
pop quiz, hotshot... how can a party claiming to be the party of real change in fact produce change from what the party created in the first place, as claimed by Palin and Guillani? isn't this like a vortex or black hole of impossibility?
I wholeheartedly agree she's a piece of work...
"But you know how the librul press lies!"
Perhaps the repugs WANT her to be attacked by the press.
I'm not sure that having the press finally wake up will make it all better.
John @ 18:
Give em time. It's just the morning after and like many of us they're waking up with a WTF hangover.
Last night looked more like a Klan rally than a party convention.
I think after last night, many americans know how far to the right the GOP has really gone.
It is apparent that most moderate republicans are in hiding, retiring, keeping a low profile at the convention, speaking out against Palin off the record, jumping ship....
i watched for about 5 minutes and i what i saw didn't remotely resemble anything presidential.
MN USA @ 11:
I don't know why or how that happens. Last night her claim to fame was that she is just like you and me. Well, I want someone in the white house who is not just like me. I want someone who is more knowledgeable than I am. I want someone more prepared to make the decisions than I am. I want someone more capable of seeing the whole picture than I am. Most of all I want someone in the white house who I can trust to be honest with the American people when times are good as well as when they aren't.
Tom @ 20:
She fired up the base which they already had and fired up the moderates they didn't to vote against them. I'd say it was a success.
Bush in a skirt.
So the Grand Oil Perverts are trying to tell us that Palin's speech beat Obama's? The hell were they watching? This entire convention was a bore.
"But she's a hockey mom! And she's right next to Russia! That means she's supposed to be VP!"
Please stop the pain.
I think SilentPatriot might be the blogger that reads my mind, only puts my thoughts into more eloquent phrase.
Keep up the good work SP!
She could have read the phone book last night, and the GOP would have been on their feet!
JohnnyBravo @ 28:
Nasty lying bitch Palin was the cherry on top to follow nasty lying bastards Thompson, Mittens and 9ui11iani.
Is it fair to blame Palin for the content of her speech when her only contribution to it was the trivia about her family?
palin reminds me of the blond beauty contest winner who'se Mayor Joe Quimby's current mistress. Sure, she's attractive, until she opens her mouth.
mcgramps should've chosen this suburban mom as his running mate. She's more believable than palin:
http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs22/300W/f/2008/023/1/a/Playtoon___Marge_Si...
JohnnyBravo @ 28:
Don't you mean hokey grandmother?
IF IT RALLIES THE BASE - JUST GO AHEAD AND SAY IT.
Truth be damned.
Ruthless People @ 32:
....well, the females in that family haven't seen their cherries since 14....maybe that was a bad analogy.
America is only going to wake up to the facts when they are presented to them on the MSM morning shows. Dont hold your breathe.
All me to clarify my Comment 20... my wife was fired up with fear and anger and said (coming from someone who has never watched a convention or polical speech other than Obama's acceptance), "I feel like I am watching Nazi propaganda in the 1930s."
I don't like Nazi references, but THAT'S how it came off to a person who really is "the average voter."
The hating polar bears didn't help either.
16 dilly Says: She should have spoke in tongues.
I'm sure she's a cunning linguist.
Kyuzo @ 6:
umm ummi guess we're both stuck
I read the transcript but have not seen the speech in its entirety. Did she field dress a dead moose on the stage last night to show how manly she can be?
Forget attacks being called sexist now, the attackers can say they are addressing the pit bull wearing lipstick.
It's amazing how quickly Rove wrote this speech! He's so busy now days with Fox news and his smear tour that finding the time must be a stretch..It must be a new mixture of the KoolAide supplement!
IF this dweeb from AK has a clue, a SINGLE clue, what shes getting herself into with the likes of the Republican smear machine she'll run away as fast as she can...or be eaten alive and tossed aside like the rest of the non-insiders.
She has no plan, no experience in world affairs, no plan other than Newt's on energy, no plan for education other than what Dobson tells her, no plan on health care, and no plan to re-build the country's infrastructure. IF the republicans want to run on the issues rather than a beauty contest the game is over, but the media still seems to be dwelling on the money teet where they're comfortable with no accountability.
If anyone looks past the smoke and mirrors and thinks of the implications these lunatics can have over our lives for generations, maybe centuries by appointing three judges on the Supreme Court to overturn most of laws from the last 50-80 years then they may think twice. But Rove is counting on everyone loosing sight of that small issue.
VERY dangerous folks.....
Bill @ 33:
yeah because she could have been a true reformer and a maverick and not followed the script
AP also has a story up in which Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, and other media morons are chirping that, given Palin's speech, "a star is born."
Good lord these people are dumb.
Thank you,
i swear it was a speech for the ignorant.
Sarah Palin is a family panderer and hypocrite.
Obama was nice enough to say "back off Palin's daughter" and "to leave families alone"
But she turned around and attacked Michelle about loving this country
Ironic that Todd her husband was part of AIP - He loves Alaska not America.
Sarah Palin i have no respect for you for this insult.
But please continue Pandering your Baby, your Pregnate daughter and your son going to Iraq and then say stop attcking my family.
Just when you thought the GOP could get no more vial they bring us Sarah Palin! It's nice to see a woman rise to the rank of scum
TAGG @ 8:
I recommend this article!
Dems need to begin everything they say about her with the pit bull quote to pre-answer sexist criticism. The speech writers wrote her a nasty speech to energize the sleepy people and the Dems should be energized too.
All I can say is. Great another republican that is programmed by the machine to spew completely false statements while rome burns. Only way to get passed this is to have the press actually become the 4th estate again.
Palin "unloads" on Obama. Pit Bull in lipstick...http://www.newsday.com/
Yea, just what this country needs after 8 years of Bush and Cheney. More gun shooting analogies and aggressive vicious dog analogies. I think most Americans are ready for a change from that.
the press are beginning to do ther job keep it guys . our country needs truth.
Bring it on Sara Palin. No little woman you are! Your handlers think your few months of governor show you are an executive. What kind of executive decisions does a right-wing, religious nut make.
Iraq is a task of god. God wants pipelines to enrichen the already bloatedly rich white, male oil execs in the mold of Cheney and Bush?
A maverick my ass. Your actions show you have been on your knees from day one ready to suck!
40 ysbaddaden Says: 16 dilly Says: She should have spoke in tongues.
I’m sure she’s a cunning linguist.
Dude, I would respecre her more if she were gay, at least then I would say she has some values. But this Christian hateful nonsense she spews is worthless.
12 pissed off patricia
I would also add that those guard troops can be federalized for up to two years by the President which for the most part would have left Palin out of the guard's chain of command for a good portion of Palin's service as Governor. Besides, even if she did have direct control at some point her role as Governor limits her use of the guard to within the borders of Alaska. She is also limited to using them for crises involving civil matters, not to those crises that may have national security consequences. The U.S. Government can take control of those troops even inside of the state of Alaska if needs be. Palin has never had any role involving national security because she never has had to. Her role is simply to Govern, not to command. The right wing continues to try to give her more actual powers than her role as Governor actually entails.
That speech was excruciating. It was like enduring harangue from a diabolically articulate cheer leader--exactly like that.
castanea @ 45:
The north star over the baby Jesus?
Obama and Biden have class
McCain and Palin are just crass
It's nice to read an AP journalist who actually says the facts! Thank you. The only problem is, I am reading 4 newspapers as I type this and not a one of them say anything about this article. They just headline how Palin targets/mocks Obama and then proceeds to repeat every lie she said. It's that left leaning media again......repeat the lie enough and after a while, everybody will believe it. Sheeshe :(
It wont make any difference,...
The Jesus Camp generation doesn't care about facts.
even NPR pointed out her lies - finding them must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
castanea @ 45:
They're paid to be dumb, off base and manufacture narratives.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
[*applauds*] Bravo. That's exactly what I'd like to see as well.
"a fifth of Americans cannot locate the US on a map. Why is this?" She may make the blond look like a Rhodes scholar.
Your answer, Governor Palin????
Child abuse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Wq2CbQWVU&feature=related Sarah's cult
MN USA @ 11:
That's why in this election we have to put a stop to simply electing someone we can drink beer with. Our country is hurting from eight years of promises, lies, corruption and war.
This is no time for the superficial. It's about damn time for the gloves to come off to fight these crooks so they won't have any impact on our country anymore.
I'd be happy if someone found something devestating enough to send the filthy-mouthed Gov. Hockey mom back into the wilderness for a meeting with the wolves and the polar bears.
John @ 18:
Well, they kind of have to, given the fact that all of the media outlets have shut out any Democratic voices from their RNC coverage. CNN kept Donna Brazile. MSNBC kept Rachel Maddow (and blocked out KO). That's all, folks. Do you remember how many smarmy Republicans were all over the airwaves at the DNC?
I'm glad the AP finally grew a spine. Hopefully the media bashing last night will turn a few more talking heads, but I doubt it. This IS McCain's media we're talking about...
pissed off patricia @ 42:
Beyond being pit bullshit, she needs to be challenged on everything as you have often said. Her nasty stuff followed be a sweet smile tries to sell used cars.
She is still small time, and way over her head. The media can put her on the spot, and I hope they will.
37 Ruthless People Says: Ruthless People @ 32:
Nasty lying bitch Palin was the cherry on top to follow nasty lying bastards Thompson, Mittens and 9ui11iani.
….well, the females in that family haven’t seen their cherries since 14….maybe that was a bad analogy.
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He said anal...
Heh...HEH...heh...heh...
One thing is for sure. Don't be surprised to see a little box with an ear piece under Palin's pantsuit during the debates. With her lack of knowledge regarding national security matters she will need it more than anyone else before.
bigwup63 @ 44:
Kerching!
Thank you!
Bill @ 33: "Is it fair to blame Palin for the content of her speech when her only contribution to it was the trivia about her family?"
The words came spewing forth out of her potty mouth, so yes, it is more than fair to blaim Palin.
Can a female pit bull wearing lipstick be called a bitch? I believe dog breeders would say so.
THE A.P.? Really? they actually did something slightly journalistic and not a story flatly, obviously, blatantly, and dishonestly in total support of the Republicans? Wow. Is there hope, or was this just an aberration and the writer already has been fired?
Democrats?
Fuuuuck...
Stick your own fork in your asses.
You're done.
Oh, I'm gonna 'vote' for the Mocha Hope...because I would rather chop off a hand than use it to cast a ballot for ANY GOPhascist.
But the game's over...
Which is a shame for a party that should be ahead 20 points..
51 bigwup63 Says: the press are beginning to do ther job keep it guys . our country needs truth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjSVLxIQWzc
I don't know if it has been said, but the state received something like $223 million dollars from the federal government for this bridge project, but as governor, Palin decided to scrap the bridge program. But Alaska kept the money for the bridge anyway. If the state were honest, they would give that money back! Palin, who is running with a candidate that claims to be specifically against earmark spending, spent most of her time as governor benefiting from those earmarks.
Ben Stein says he wants Palin to change Henry Kissinger's diapers. At least he's open about his distaste over Phalin.
She hates people that live in cities, you could almost see the venom spill from her pores when she talked about small town America; and what the hell was with the Truman ref? Not ONE single idea on what needs to be done to help the economy except for more drilling that, lets face it, only helps Russia and the oil dictaterships of the world. I wonder if the MSM will ever ask her to explain her relationship with Ted Stevens, I wont hold my breath since the McCain people will not let her near a real reporter that might ask tough questions that cant be answered in snarky sound bites.
How can obama state victory in Iraq when there never was a clear mission.
For the past several years, it was just booshco trying to save face on the non-existance of WMD's they insisted were there
At the cost of more than 4000 lives, numberless Iraqi civilians, national treasure and prestige.
RB-Chicago @ 43:
Yeah. She should have coffee with Katherine Harris sometimes.
Remember old Katherine? (Alleged) Bush Mistress. Secretary of State of Florida. Congresswoman of Florida (a possible reward for her dirty shenanigans). Turned out into the gutter when it was all over like an old, fifty-cent streetwalker on crack.
However, the difference between Katherine Harris and Sarah Palin is the fact that Sarah Palin wields a gun and kills polar bears and wolves.
Chimpokomon @ 23:
I hope you are right! I shudder to think how much worse these two fucktards could make things if they get into the oval office as anything other than visitors.
Talking about comic relief, Romney, Rudi, Huckabee and the GOP just as lost as the democrats LOL pitiful
I couldn't stomach watching the whole speech from Grandma Bitch, so if someone could add up all the lies and low-life insults from her speech, I will double the total and donate to Obama.
Of course what do I know? Certain commenters claim I'm a closet conservative, because I have no interest in charging enlistees with crimes just for enlisting.
I'm more concerned with the fact that no one is drawing up charges against booshco.
Didn't we hear this crap about the "liberal media" in the last elections? This is a Rovian tactic to
avoid a direct question by putting the questioner on the defensive. My great hope is that there
are a few who will insist on getting "straight talk" from their questions.
Another question on my mind lately...
What's the tipping point for anger and outrage in America 2008? Citizens in every other free country in the world make their goverment work for them. Is it a fear factor? Over-prescribing of anti-depressants? The numbers just seem too close considering the economic circumstances. Did $600 checks really level the field?
I make ten dollars an hour.
I live paycheck to paycheck.
I have no health care.
I'd like to thank Sarah Palin and the Republicans. Because of her offensive, snarky, condescending and substanceless speech and the right's embrace of it, I have now vowed to myself that from here until the election, twenty-five dollars of every paycheck will be donated to the Obama campaign.
She fired me up all right. Now I'm ready to go.
You think there has been a time this week when McCain wondered to himself, What the hell have I gotten myself into? The Alaska Hillbillies may be more than he was prepared for when he allowed himself to be swayed to include them in his campaign.
Of course what do I know? Certain commenters claim I'm a closet conservative, because I have no interest in charging enlistees with crimes just for enlisting.
I'm more concerned with the fact that no one is drawing up charges against booshco.
Actually palin doesn't blow away bears
Just blows them.
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag, carrying a bible....and...look...like a hot librarian?!?
Sarah Palin speech summarized:
"Don't believe you're own eyes! Don't believe the facts you read! Believe what I'm telling you! Up is down and down is up! Black is white and white is black! Thank you and God bless Amurika!"
(oh, and John McCain was a POW. He loves his country more than Barack Obama)
Chimpokomon @ 23:
Last night looked more like a Klan rally than a party convention.
I think after last night, many americans know how far to the right the GOP has really gone.
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It did look like a Klan convention, albeit the senior one. Of the few minutes I could tolerate, I watched them pan the crowd as Palin vomited out her lies and insults. They were all smiling and cackling maniacally, bearing the dentures, eyes bugged out of their heads.
It was sick.
I also find irony in the fact that AK is the most socialist state in the union. Does your state send everybody a check every year, I think that she also just sent the populace a $1000 check to help with energy costs, in a state that she says has plenty of oil. AK residents also get more in fed money than any other state per person, handouts are not part of the repub system, well except for corps.
BTW: can anybody tell me just where did the money for the NG pipeline comes from?
Where does it come from and where does it go to?
How much NG is this pipeline going to deliver?
Do they call kosher catsup
Kvetchup?
Well, we now know what it is this vice president would do everyday. Smear, lie and divide.
Pretty much the McSame as the current vice president.
Sarah Palin is George W. Bush Ver. 2.0. Divisive, small-minded, smug, empty suit and an evangelical whackjob. Perfect candidate for the right-wingers.
Ruthless People @ 96:
....and highly likely to shoot somebody in the face. Yep, pretty much the McSame.
The repigs keep pushing her vast experience in being the governor of "the largest state". Here are some real statistics:
2006 population of the state of Alaska - 670,053
2005 population of the city of Chicago - 2,842,518
The entire state of Alaska has fewer residents than the south side neighborhoods that Barack Obama served as a community organizer. I haven't found any information yet as to whether he's ever attended any PTA meetings so I guess they may still have something to crow about yet.