It’s still a lie.
Sarah Palin is back on “death panels” in the Wall Street Journal.
UPDATE: Worth reading her circular logic in this justification for making things up. Apparently, it was okay to spread a falsehood, because people actually believed it: Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans.
At this point, most of the noise about Barack Obama wanting to indoctrinate school children in a back-to-school speech has mostly faded from view. Newt Gingrich has repudiated it. Historians (and White House aides) have pointed out that past Republican presidents–George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan–delivered the same sorts of messages. …
I fell into watching “Don’t Look Back” last night, the great documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour through England. Dylan never cared much for the press, even though, as the movie showed, he read the tabloids voraciously and spent a ton to time giving interviews. (He expresses this view in an extended verbal assault on a TIME magazine …
Has there ever been a politician blogger who can create such a fuss with each posting?
On Tuesday afternoon in Wasilla (Wednesday morning in Washington), Sarah Palin did it again, posting a blog riff that has created a stir. Her subject was a recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal about a $2 billion U.S. Export-Import Bank loan …
The former Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin, better explains today why she is concerned about President Obama’s support for allowing doctors to offer living will consultations to patients with government funding. It is, I believe, a must read, if only as an exercise in logic. Palin is arguing in plain terms that doctors cannot be trusted to …
Tweeps weigh in* on Sarah Palin’s scary, scary Facebook post:
And:
*Find them here.
Sarah Palin, via her Facebook page, is the latest to spread the most bizarre rumor about what is in the health care legislation that is being drafted on Capitol Hill.:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his
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Let it be known: As fun as these are, the new tweets are not as good as the old beats. After the jump, Jack Kerouac reads “On The Road” on the Steve Allen Show in 1959. (What a host, Steve Allen. Come on Conan, play the piano.)
So, Sarah Palin, as planned, is no longer a public official. She went out with a few fireworks yesterday:
And first, some straight talk for some, just some in the media because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press, and you all have such important jobs reporting facts and informing the electorate, and exerting
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It’s not quite the other shoe everyone was waiting to drop, but Alaska Governor (for the next four days) Sarah Palin is facing some ethics questions about the Alaska Fund Trust, a fund she started to raise money to pay for legal fees to defend against ethics complaints.
An independent report commissioned by the state’s Personnel …
Gallup has new numbers out today, testing the 2012 GOP waters. Polls this early in an election cycle are in no way predictive of eventual results, but they are telling for other reasons. At the very least, we now know that Sarah Palin’s up-and-quit spectacle of the last couple weeks has not hurt her much among GOP voters.
I’m back from the Last Frontier with this week’s dead tree cover story on Sarah Palin, written with the very excellent editor-at-large David Von Drehle. I don’t think this will be the last we hear from the soon-to-be-former governor. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of the story is how vehemently the Palin camp blames Barack Obama.
All this talk about Sarah Palin’s constituency being “real Americans” raises the question, yet again, of who the unreal Americans are. Last September, when the Governor burst upon the scene like a head-on collision, I wrote that Palin’s America–white folks, small towns, traditional values–was a Republican fantasy, a vestige of Ronald …