Gov. Sarah Palin is blaming bloggers and lies for the defeat of her attorney general nominee, who the Alaska Legislature refused to confirm last week.
At her first news conference after the Legislature voted 35-23 to reject Wayne Anthony Ross as attorney general, Palin said the defeat was due to "deliberate misrepresentation" of Ross' statements.
"A great problem was public lies were told about Mr. Ross," she said.
Palin declined to say whose lies undermined Ross, citing the blogosphere and e-mails from members of the public.
Palin declined to say whose lies undermined Ross, citing the blogosphere and e-mails from members of the public.
Ross, long a controversial and flamboyant figure in Alaska public life, came to the job with a history that included statements critized by Alaska Native organizations and women's groups.
Palin, though, said lies about Ross that were tough to refute in a timely manner led to the rejection.
"He very easily and accurately refuted the lies told about him, but once a bell is rung, really tough to un-ring a bell," she said.
Number one until Governor Plain actually tries to "un-ring a bell" how does she know how difficult it is to do? I mean let's not make any unsubstantiated claims shall we!
And speaking of unsubstantiated claims what lies is she talking about concerning WAR?
The Leah Burton letter, that quoted Ross saying "if you cannot rape your wife, than who can you rape"? Nope, because that it has been well substantiated that it did indeed take place. And even Leah's dad, ex-Commissioner of Public Safety Richard Burton, came to her defense after Ross and Palin implied she was a liar. So there!
Or the fact WAR made the following comment, "it seems to me the most important thing that can be done by the Senate is not argue with legal or illegal but to appoint somebody to represent Juneau."? Because Sean Cockerham has that bad boy on tape.
No Governor Palin the progressive bloggers did not have to make up ANYTHING! All we had to do was publish the truth and the Alaskan people, and their representatives, did the rest.
However something about your accusation that everything is the bloggers fault reminded me of something. Something I have not thought about for quite some time.
Ah yes it is all coming back to me now. I guess it has always been those "pesky" bloggers screwing up Sarah Palin's nefarious plots. Gosh darn them!
Why do I suddenly feel like I am part of the Scooby Gang?
By the way if you want to see what the rest of the Scooby Gang think about taking the blame for WAR's defeat just meander on over to Mudflats, and than take a quick jog over to my pal Shannyn Moore, for their take on this whole bizarre episode.
Sarah has a problem with "public lies", they should be kept "private". On this instance the bloggers stuck to the TRUTH. Sarah got stuck on WAR.
ReplyDeleteI disagree. I think Palin has unsuccessfully tried to unring several of her bell rings (read that as "lies"). That's when she turns into the human centrifuge and spins, spins, spins.
ReplyDeleteHe very easily could have un-rung a bell by refuting a statement he made a number of years ago about gays being "degenerates.""
ReplyDeleteInstead he chose not to say whether that still was his opinion- in 2009 as Attorney General.
The bell remained un-rung.
Net Neutrality.
ReplyDeleteWithout it, the right would censor free speech by restricting access to blogs on the internet.
If it weren't for net neutrality, we would have had a whole different election.
The rejection of W.A.R. is an effort that I am proud to have played small a part in!
ReplyDeleteOnly the weak and pitiful shoot the messenger.
ReplyDeletewho knew we were so powerful! LOL
ReplyDeleteSarah is so clueless - it was the words coming out of his own mouth that did him in