Paul Begala rips MSM, Republican operative for flat-out lying about Palin’s record

By: SilentPatriot @ 3:00 PM - PDT

Paul Begala goes to town on GOP media consultant Alex Castellanos for peddling blatant falsehoods about Sarah Palin’s “reformer” record, specifically her phantom opposition to the “Bridge to Nowhere,” which she not only supported, but for which hired a Abramoff crony to secure the earmark.

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ALEX CASTELLANOS: The amazing thing about Sarah Palin is when she became governor she actually stood up and said no.
BEGALA: That’s not true.
CASTELLANOS: She took a strong stand. That is rare and that never happened.
BEGALA: That’s just not true. You know, John, the facts matter. There’s lots of things that are debatable who is more qualified or less experienced or more this or more passionate, whatever. It is a fact that she campaigned and supported that bridge to nowhere. It is a fact that she hired lobbyists to get earmarks. It is a fact that as governor she lobbies for earmarks. Her state is essentially a welfare state taking money from the federal government… This is the problem. We have this false debate when we ought to have at least agreed upon facts.
Begala couldn’t be more spot on here: Facts are facts. Opinions can be debated, but facts are concrete and can’t simply be spun away. It seems to me that this is the crux of the McCain strategy: take an unknown hockey mom from Alaska, tell everyone she’s a reformer, lie about her record in order to convince people of it, then keep her sequestered from the press when they start asking questions. Are the American people really dumb enough to fall for it?
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