Told Them Thanks But No Thanks

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Told Them Thanks But No Thanks
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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 1:18am

Well, Palin is on her own on the campaign trail.  And...she's telling the same old, same old about the bridge to nowhere:


http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/13/1394679.aspx


Palin's 'Bridge to Nowhere' line returns



Posted: Saturday, September 13, 2008 


Mark Murray
From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger

CARSON CITY, Nev. -- In her first solo campaign rally outside of Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin drew an enthusiastic crowd at the Pony Express Pavilion Saturday and returned to a familiar refrain about the ��Bridge to Nowhere.”

Palin has come under fire in recent days for misleadingly saying she told Congress “thanks but no thanks,” refusing an earmark for a bridge to a sparsely inhabited island in her home state. Independent groups and media fact-checkers have said Palin advocated for the federal earmark before opposing it, only ended after Congress had essentially killed it, and kept the $223 million for the appropriation after the project was killed.


Palin had cut the refrain from her speech during her three-day visit to Alaska. But she came back to it today, citing it as an example of earmark reform she and McCain would push for in the White House.


“I told Congress thanks but no thanks to that Bridge to Nowhere -- that if our state wanted to build that bridge, we would build it ourselves," she said.
 
Palin did not deviate much from the speech she had given the last two weeks on the road with McCain. She reiterated a line that she put the governor’s luxury jet on eBay. While accurate, the jet wasn’t sold on eBay.


Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said on stage that 10,000 people were in the crowd, but parks officials said the pavilion held only 3,500 people. The audience consisted of significantly more women than McCain-Palin joint rallies over the last two weeks, and Palin addressed her historic candidacy head on.


“The women of America aren’t finished yet, this November, with your help, we’re gonna shatter one glass ceiling once and for all,” she said.


Palin also acknowledged the presence of Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier.>>>


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Registered: 09-30-2007
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:16pm
So, let me clarify, if you are giving a speech and you say something that isn't technically true (such as a lie by omission or a stretching of the truth or even a bald faced lie) it is OK, but if say your mother asks you a question and you say something untrue it's a lie? In your world the truth has different definitions depending on where it is told, or in this case not told? My what a complicated world you live in. It is so much easier just to tell the truth - much less to remember that way.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:25pm
You can keep trying, but it's not working...
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:33pm

She would have no motive NOT to tell the entire story. The entire story is FAVORABLE to her. Leaving out details and getting to the bottom line is what you do in a speech - (unless you are a boring speech giver).

She did NOT say anything that was not technically true. Her statement WAS technically true.
There was no "lie of omission", "stretching of the truth", or "bold faced lie", no matter how you try to spin it.

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:37pm
When all the details are known, they are FAVORABLE to her! What motive would she have to leave them all out, except to give a more entertaining speech. SHE didn't spin anything. Her statements are all true. The spin is rolling in from her detractors.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:38pm
What bomb bomb statement?
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Registered: 09-30-2007
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:40pm
You can keep saying that but it doesn't make it true or truthier. Unless you have some kind of superpowers we don't know about.

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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:40pm
You must love Biden then.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:42pm
Except when you are presented with the truth you seem to refuse to look at it.
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Registered: 09-30-2007
Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:45pm
Ah but I haven't been presented with the truth - just your pathetic attempt at spin,

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Sun, 09-14-2008 - 5:48pm

Sounds snappier?

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