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Thursday, September 4, 2008

This is No Time for Subtlety

posted by on September 4 at 9:30 AM

So here’s the Associated Press report on the various tall tales, fibs, and outright lies told from the stage of the RNC last night—originally alluded to in this post—showcased in its very own Slog entry.

Here’s but one highlight of the AP’s RNC fact-checking:

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

(Confidential to Slog tipper 100,000 Fireflies: I have a mandolin. I play it all night long. It makes me want to kill myself.)

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I've just heard the term "Moosemeat Barbie."

Posted by bucket | September 4, 2008 10:02 AM
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If I may begin with a slighly off-topic comment : I'm with the guy who complained about your live-blogging snafu last night - and beyond. I realize things are rather active at the moment, but you guys need to seriously either sort out your server problems, or just shut it down until you can. The load times are getting a bit silly.

Posted by Veruca Salt | September 4, 2008 10:04 AM
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What is it with you liberal media elites and reporting facts? If you're not reporting mean facts about Palin's political affiliations and personal life that she clearly doesn't want anybody to know, you're nit-picking every little untrue thing a Republican says from the podium to score points with the crowd. Why this obsession with facts when a world of compelling fictions is right in front of your eyes, waiting to be believed?

For instance: Lowering taxes actually increases revenue! Also, drilling for oil off our shores will solve the problem of high fuel prices, because it will generate special magic oil that the oil companies will sell to us at a discount instead of at market price like they usually do. (They'll do this because they're so grateful. They promised) And did you know global warming is a myth, and what we're experiencing is merely Climate Change, which is not caused by humans burning things everywhere around the planet all at once all the time for the last hundred years, but by Climate Pixies that live in the sun? It's not actually true, oh God no, but wouldn't it be cool if it was? Why don't we all agree to pretend that these things are true -- the only thing standing in between us that belief is fact-bigots in the media elite, who want you to stay up nights worrying about their precious "facts" when you could be sleeping sound in a warm blanket of pleasing fantasy.

What have facts done for you lately?

Posted by flamingbanjo | September 4, 2008 10:26 AM
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(Whups. That was me with my non-professional gmail account. Now everyone knows I'm a slight Magnetic Fields fangirl.)

I like having everything in one place, isn't that neat?

Also, I agree with Veruca on the damn servers. I've tried to post this like, three times.

Posted by Abby | September 4, 2008 10:26 AM
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(Whups. That was me with my non-professional gmail account. Now everyone knows I'm a slight Magnetic Fields fangirl.)

I like having everything in one place, isn't that neat?

Also, I agree with Veruca on the damn servers. I've tried to post this like, three times.

Posted by Abby | September 4, 2008 10:27 AM
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I've tried to comment on this three times, and got nothing. Hmmpf.

Posted by Fnarf | September 4, 2008 10:32 AM
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When Palin repeated the "Bridge to Nowhere" lie, did anyone notice the woman who suddenly looked very pissed, like she knew it was a lie, and then sheepishly clapped anyway?

Republican psychology, in a nutshell.

Posted by w7ngman | September 4, 2008 10:34 AM
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OK, now I've had SIX comments disappeared. Quite annoying.

Posted by Fnarf | September 4, 2008 10:34 AM
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Actually, that Huckabee line was for me the only zinger all night that landed. Who cares if it was a huge lie? It was actually kind of funny in a bitchy/snarky way.

I doubt it was intended factually, anyway.

Posted by Just Sayin' | September 4, 2008 10:38 AM
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Why do we keep shouting when we mean soft things?

Posted by Fnarf | September 4, 2008 10:39 AM
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My comment didn't appear either. Did your spam filter take it? it did say ()s@/\/\@ in it

("did anybody else think it was really wrong for Guiliani to say that 0sama wins when Barak retreats from Iraq")

Posted by Non | September 4, 2008 10:49 AM
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Liberal elites?

I grew up eating moose, deer, caribou, bear and other meat my dad and I hunted.

Give me a frickin break.

Palin and McCain are the elitists ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | September 4, 2008 12:38 PM
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Let me just say, I want an elite for president. Because, you know, being president is kind of a hard job, and I want somebody who's good at that kind of thing. Like an elite.

Posted by Greg | September 4, 2008 1:12 PM
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I want a guy who finished 800th out of a class of 800 in his college. Not some fancy Harvard law elitist.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber | September 4, 2008 1:39 PM
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Yeah, besides, both Bush and Cheney were elites.

They just pretended they weren't.

Posted by Will in Seattle | September 4, 2008 1:58 PM

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