SARAH PALIN'S 18 LIES TONIGHT
1. FANNIE MAE/FREDDIE MAC: Palin
said "it was John McCain who pushed so hard with the Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac reform measures," but fact checkers say that's "Quite A
Stretch" And "Barely True," and that McCain was a "latecomer" to the
discussion.
2. FUNDAMENTALS ARE STRONG: Palin
tried to say "John McCain saying our economy was strong" but McCain has
used the phrase "The Fundamentals Of The Economy Are Strong" At Least
16 Times This Year.
3. PARTISAN POLITICS: Palin said McCain is "known
for putting partisan politics aside to just get the job done," but he
has voted with Bush 90% of the time in the Senate and bragged about his
support for Bush on important issues.
4. TAXES ATTACK: Palin
repeated the attack that Obama voted for higher taxes 94 times, which
the New York Times says is "false," CNN says is "Misleading," and
FactCheck.org says is "inflated."
5. TOBACCO REGULATION: Palin
said to "look at the tobacco industry" as an example of McCain pushing
for even harder and tougher regulations. But McCain opposed expanding
the SCHIP children's health insurance program for 5.8 million children
because it would increase tobacco taxes.
6. SPENDING INCREASES: Palin
said Obama is is proposing "nearly a trillion dollars in new spending,"
but didn't mention that he has also proposed cuts to balance it out, an
attack CNN has already debunked as "misleading" and that ignores the
far larger cost of McCain's tax cuts and spending hikes.
7. HEALTH CARE: Palin claimed Obama's health plan is "government run" which has been widely debunked as a "canard."
8. HEALTH CARE. Palin says taxes wouldn't go up under the McCain health care plan, a fact even his own campaign has acknowledged isn't true.
9. TROOPS: Palin
repeated what the AP called the "highly misleading" attack that Obama
opposed funding for the troops, and Factcheck.org notes that the same
methodology would lead to the same conclusion for McCain.
10. GLOBAL WARMING: Palin
said "I don't want to argue about the causes" for global warming, when
she has clearly taken the position that she doesn't not believe it is
man-made.
11. MCCAIN IS CONSISTENT: Palin
said McCain" doesn't tell one thing to one group and then turns around
and tells something else to another group," when that is exactly what
he has done on immigration, telling Hispanic leaders he was for
comprehensive reform instead of the enforcement focused approach he has
taken with conservatives.
12. MCCLELLAN NOT MCKIERNAN: Palin referred to the US commander in Afghanistan, David McKiernan as "McClellan."
13. MCKIERNAN ON "SURGE:" Palin
said that [McKiernan] did not say a surge wouldn't work in Afghanistan,
when just yesterday he said "The word I don't use for Afghanistan is
'surge,' " McKiernan stressed, saying that what is required is a
"sustained commitment" to a counterinsurgency effort that could last
many years and would ultimately require a political, not military,
solution. [http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/02/mccain-mckiernan-afghanistan/]
14. KILLING CIVILIANS. Palin
said "Obama had said that all we're doing in Afghanistan is air raiding
villages and killing civilians and such a reckless, reckless comment
and untrue comment again hurts our cause. That's not what we are doing
there." Unfortunately, the Associated Press says that Obama was right
in discussing a critically important point about avoiding civilian
casualties.
15. TEACHING: Palin
said we need to make sure "that education in either one of our agendas,
I think, absolute top of the line," when McCain has repeatedly favored
tax cuts for the wealthy over funds for more teachers and class size
reduction.
16. PARTISAN APPOINTMENTS: Palin said "You
do what I did as governor. And you appoint people regardless of party
affiliation. Democrats, independents, Republicans, you walk the walk,
don't just talk the talk" when she repeatedly appointed friends and
supporters to positions for which they weren't qualified.
17. FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Palin falsely claimed that she was the first governor to form a climate change subcabinet, when at least 28 states had already taken action.
18. DARFUR DIVESTMENT: Palin
claimed that "when I and others" found out that the state had money
invested in Sudan that "we called for divestment," when the reality is
that Palin's appointees worked to kill a Darfur divestment plan.
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