By now, anyone who’s truly paying attention knows that Sarah Palin is a liar. Not that she’s the only one, of course – there were plenty of inaccuracies and all-out falsehoods stated by folks like Joe Lieberman, Fred Thompson and of course John McCain at the Republican National Convention last week. But, Sarah really laid some whoppers on the nation in her speech, and she continues to stretch the truth, skip over inconvenient facts and lie outright to anyone who will listen.
In this clip from Charlie Rose’s ‘The Green Room’, not only is Palin completely absorbed with Alaska (um, hello, you’re running for Vice President of the entire country), she also claims that drilling in her state would revitalize the economy and give us energy independence. Check it out at 2:15 below.
That was a knee-slapper. What else do you have in your comedy routine, Palin? Oh, yeah, your continuing insistence that you’ve opposed the Bridge to Nowhere all along, when in fact you were its biggest champion until it became clear that the Senate wasn’t going to back it. Check out the video of the entire episode at Grist, which includes more of her big fish stories.
You know, it’s funny how Palin notes that supplying our own energy is one of the most important ways we can keep America safe and secure, yet oil is the sole focus of her plan to make that happen. Never does she mention any other sources of domestic energy – it’s oil, oil, oil. Big surprise. She’s just another ignorant Republican pushing the agenda of Big Oil.
Link [Grist]
