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Another Palin Lie: She COULD Have Stopped "Road To Nowhere"!

Linking to the DailyKOS? I wonder if it would be acceptable to link to Rush Limbaugh's site. :roll:
 
P/N said:
Linking to the DailyKOS? I wonder if it would be acceptable to link to Rush Limbaugh's site. :roll:
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As distasteful as both sites may be, the content of the message is what is up for scrutiny. Has the DailyPOS misrepresented the information they are putting out? Twisted it? Distorted it? The messenger may be an ugly bastard, but I think examination of the message is in order before the message is simply dismissed.
 
GottaHurt said:
It's desperation time for the liberals, look for them to start linking Ask Ro - Rosie O'Donnels Blog as their "hard news" source.
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So yeah...you even remotely interested in the content or are you just gonna play partisan drive by poster and ignorantly dismiss it without so much as a glance? Or did you read it and are just at a loss as to how you can counter it but couldn't resist the urge to come in and drop a turd?

Which might it be?
 
Lerxst said:
As distasteful as both sites may be, the content of the message is what is up for scrutiny. Has the DailyPOS misrepresented the information they are putting out? Twisted it? Distorted it? The messenger may be an ugly bastard, but I think examination of the message is in order before the message is simply dismissed.
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The content of the message very well may have some legitimacy too it. The point I was referring to is that the DailyKOS has a history of twisting and distorting the facts and thus cannot be used as a credible source. Linking to anything on that site doesn't scream credibility IMO.
 
P/N said:
The content of the message very well may have some legitimacy too it. The point I was referring to is that the DailyKOS has a history of twisting and distorting the facts and thus cannot be used as a credible source. Linking to anything on that site doesn't scream credibility IMO.
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I agree with you, it's just that the article (yes I went ahead and read it) has some very good citations. It's fairly thorough, and based on that information alone the OP's point is validated. At least it is in my mind.

I have no love for the DailyPOS and I never link to it for the very reasons you have stated, but when someone else does use it as a source, I'll go ahead and have a look. You never know what you might find. Sometimes they do get it right.
 
Lerxst said:
I agree with you, it's just that the article (yes I went ahead and read it) has some very good citations. It's fairly thorough, and based on that information alone the OP's point is validated. At least it is in my mind.

I have no love for the DailyPOS and I never link to it for the very reasons you have stated, but when someone else does use it as a source, I'll go ahead and have a look. You never know what you might find. Sometimes they do get it right.
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I'm in agreement with both you and P/N, but I gotta ask ya since you did bother to read it. Is there anything new here? Or is it "points" everyone else has already hit on before in dozens of posts here at DP and virtually everywhere else? Is this new info from before....today? Or a "new" cataloging of the same ol shizite? It is getting pretty late in the news cycle for any new information on this topic to be emerging. Somehow I'm guessing such will not emerge from DailyKOS. I'm going to hold off reading this based on both sources, but I'll trust your reading of the matter. So is there actually anything new here?:cool:
 
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We all know (or should by now) she hired a lobbyist to push the bridge through then backed out and laid the blame on her predecessor when it looked politically beneficial to do so. And then took the money anyway for other pork barrel projects for her state.
All of this may have had the blessings of Alaskans :2usflag::good_job:
But when she drug that into the limelight as one reason she would make a good Veep, it just didn't fly.:hitsfan:
 
Sir Loin said:
I'm in agreement with both you and P/N, but I gotta ask ya since you did bother to read it. Is there anything new here? Or is it "points" everyone else has already hit on before in dozens of posts here at DP and virtually everywhere else? Is this new info from before....today? Or a "new" cataloging of the same ol shizite? It is getting pretty late in the news cycle for any new information on this topic to be emerging. Somehow I'm guessing such will not emerge from DailyKOS. I'm going to hold off reading this based on both sources, but I'll trust your reading of the matter. So is there actually anything new here?:cool:
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Thar ya go, Sir Loin, don't let any of those pesky facts sway your opinion. :roll: Talk about "shooting the messenger". :doh

There was plenty of new facts here re: both the bridge and the road to nowhere. Facts that were repeated in articles by Time, Newsweek, CNN (obviously) and other sites. KOS actually had more of them and tied them together with a timeline.
 
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Sir Loin said:
I'm in agreement with both you and P/N, but I gotta ask ya since you did bother to read it. Is there anything new here? Or is it "points" everyone else has already hit on before in dozens of posts here at DP and virtually everywhere else? Is this new info from before....today? Or a "new" cataloging of the same ol shizite? It is getting pretty late in the news cycle for any new information on this topic to be emerging. Somehow I'm guessing such will not emerge from DailyKOS. I'm going to hold off reading this based on both sources, but I'll trust your reading of the matter. So is there actually anything new here?:cool:
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It's more specific in the details as to the remedies available to Palin. It highlights specific government clauses that she could have used to actually suspend the contract. Basically it's simply more information that nails her in regards to misrepresenting her situation regarding that earmark.

I'm not going to say it's new per se, just more detail that I haven't seen put forth in any discussion to date.
 
Sir Loin said:
I'm in agreement with both you and P/N, but I gotta ask ya since you did bother to read it. Is there anything new here? Or is it "points" everyone else has already hit on before in dozens of posts here at DP and virtually everywhere else? Is this new info from before....today? Or a "new" cataloging of the same ol shizite? It is getting pretty late in the news cycle for any new information on this topic to be emerging. Somehow I'm guessing such will not emerge from DailyKOS. I'm going to hold off reading this based on both sources, but I'll trust your reading of the matter. So is there actually anything new here?:cool:
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You're correct. There's nothing left on the plate, just a few liberals crawling on the floor picking up crumbs, and claiming they've found a meal.

The DailyKOS: Desperate Times for Desperate People.
 
GottaHurt said:
You're correct. There's nothing left on the plate, just a few liberals crawling on the floor picking up crumbs, and claiming they've found a meal.

The DailyKOS: Desperate Times for Desperate People.
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GottaHurt said:
You're correct. There's nothing left on the plate, just a few liberals crawling on the floor picking up crumbs, and claiming they've found a meal.

The DailyKOS: Desperate Times for Desperate People.
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surprise. surprise. :roll: Gotta doesn't want more of Palin's lies coming up to the light of day. It's election season. All "facts" about Palin's and McCain's actions are open to debate. In case you aren't aware, we're voting for the President of the United States and his Vice President. "Facts" about all the candidates are kinda important.

Being on the right I can see why you might not "like" the site but, just like The Enquirer, they have some very good facts on issues. This article has "facts" that I did not find in here doing a search.

If those facts are in this forum, please give me a link to the thread. Your lack of such a link will be taken as your admission that KOS is very relevant in this issue.

And if you see anything in that article that you disagree with, then state your case. Again, lack of any rebuttal will be taken as proof you just don't like facts that show the dark side of Governor Palin's character. :cool:
 
ADK_Forever said:
surprise. surprise. :roll: Gotta doesn't want more of Palin's lies coming up to the light of day. It's election season. All "facts" about Palin's and McCain's actions are open to debate. In case you aren't aware, we're voting for the President of the United States and his Vice President. "Facts" about all the candidates are kinda important.

Being on the right I can see why you might not "like" the site but, just like The Enquirer, they have some very good facts on issues. This article has "facts" that I did not find in here doing a search.

If those facts are in this forum, please give me a link to the thread. Your lack of such a link will be taken as your admission that KOS is very relevant in this issue.

And if you see anything in that article that you disagree with, then state your case. Again, lack of any rebuttal will be taken as proof you just don't like facts that show the dark side of Governor Palin's character. :cool:
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You can post as much garbage as you want. The bridge to nowhere is long gone, and you're thread is leading, nowhere.

The press squeezed all they could out of this, but you go ahead keep on ramming your head into the wall with your buddy :lamo
 
GottaHurt said:
You can post as much garbage as you want. The bridge to nowhere is long gone, and you're thread is leading, nowhere.

The press squeezed all they could out of this, but you go ahead keep on ramming your head into the wall with your buddy :lamo
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Uhhhh... look at the title of this thread. It's not about... the "bridge".

Actually, I think details about this "road" are just now coming out as the road only opened for "traffic" :roll: last weekend.

So, I take it you agree with of the facts in KOS's article but,
you just don't like them. Is that a fair assessment?
 
Lerxst said:
It's more specific in the details as to the remedies available to Palin. It highlights specific government clauses that she could have used to actually suspend the contract. Basically it's simply more information that nails her in regards to misrepresenting her situation regarding that earmark.

I'm not going to say it's new per se, just more detail that I haven't seen put forth in any discussion to date.
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Well thanks for trying to be delicate in that assessment.;)

Sounds like a hyper partisan rehash to me, and given both the two sources (KOS & ADK) and the far more pressing matters I'll be dealing with for the next few days I'll pass on what this clearly is; more of the same. :2wave:
 
ADK_Forever said:
Uhhhh... look at the title of this thread. It's not about... the "bridge".

Actually, I think details about this "road" are just now coming out as the road only opened for "traffic" :roll: last weekend.

So, I take it you agree with of the facts in KOS's article but,
you just don't like them. Is that a fair assessment?
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Like I said, she saved AK taxpayers a minimum of a million dollars by not canceling the contract (according to the radical Daily Kos's own estimates).

Did you read it before you posted this?
 
Panther said:
Like I said, she saved AK taxpayers a minimum of a million dollars by not canceling the contract (according to the radical Daily Kos's own estimates).

Did you read it before you posted this?
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Let's say your $1 mil is correct (which is not what the article says).

So, let me get this straight... your position is that she did the "right thing" by spending $26 mil, of the country's money!, on a road that she knew nobody will ever use instead of coughing up only $1 mil to stop a useless project that her state never should have agreed to go forward with?

You do know that she stopped other projects in this way... don't you?

The truth is that the reason she built that Road To Nowhere is because:
1 - It wasn't her $$ and
2 - That $26 mil was a small price to pay to get the rest of the $$ that Congress gave her... which, by the way, Congress stipulated that the $$ that they did give her "could not be spent on that bridge".

The truth shall set us free.
 
ADK_Forever said:
Let's say your $1 mil is correct (which is not what the article says).

So, let me get this straight... your position is that she did the "right thing" by spending $26 mil, of the country's money!, on a road that she knew nobody will ever use instead of coughing up only $1 mil to stop a useless project that her state never should have agreed to go forward with?
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Absolutely. If she were my Governor, that's exactly what I'd want her to do. She didn't spend the federal governments money - the federal gov't did. You seem to keep "forgetting" that this was done prior to her becoming Gov.

If the Federal Government wants to blow $26 million on a worthless road, and the Governor's only way to prevent it is to saddle the state taxpayers with a million dollar bill - what moron would want to pay that tab out of the state treasury?
 
Panther said:
Absolutely. If she were my Governor, that's exactly what I'd want her to do. She didn't spend the federal governments money - the federal gov't did. You seem to keep "forgetting" that this was done prior to her becoming Gov.

If the Federal Government wants to blow $26 million on a worthless road, and the Governor's only way to prevent it is to saddle the state taxpayers with a million dollar bill - what moron would want to pay that tab out of the state treasury?
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"Morons" who have a sense of right and wrong.
 
ADK_Forever said:
"Morons" who have a sense of right and wrong.
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Oh please, her job as VP will come with different expectations because it is a national office. But she was "hired" to be a Governor to put the best interests of the state first. Costing AK taxpayers because of a bunch of liberal spenders in DC would make her irresponsible.
 
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Panther said:
Absolutely. If she were my Governor, that's exactly what I'd want her to do. She didn't spend the federal governments money - the federal gov't did. You seem to keep "forgetting" that this was done prior to her becoming Gov.

If the Federal Government wants to blow $26 million on a worthless road, and the Governor's only way to prevent it is to saddle the state taxpayers with a million dollar bill - what moron would want to pay that tab out of the state treasury?
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No, he didn't forget this at all. He ignored it because if not, he wouldn't be able to demogogue the issue now. He knows he's twisting everything, as usual. This whole issue, regardless of the facts, is irrelevant. It's irrelevant simply on the fact that Obama and Biden have spent $billions on earmarks, which ADK is ignoring.
 
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