With allegations that NBC anchor Brian Williams lied about coming under attack in Iraq, Sarah Palin smells blood in the water. Seriously kiddies keep your arms and legs tucked in for this one. Update!

Just in case you have not heard, currently Brian Williams is under fire for conflating the observation of an attack with actually being attacked. 

Williams offered a halfhearted apology but the conservatives are having none of it.

So somebody obviously removed Palin's muzzle and directed her to go on the ghostwritten attack.

And of course she is only too anxious to do so.

Courtesy of Facebook: 

It's said that a man's word can affect the course of history. Certainly a man with a microphone can. Mainstream media lies. Without accountability their power can influence national debate, shift momentum, and destroy a person's good name. All affecting history. 

(Is she actually calling somebody else out for lying AND calling for accountability?)

When one of their own repeats a lie for 12 years but is excused with the help of the media's herd mentality, tragic distrust and despondency blankets our land. The veil is torn, however, with the revelation of exaggerated, self-centered falsehoods like NBC's perpetual lie that belittled our soldiers and their truly courageous missions. The face of that network’s news lied about combat experiences in Iraq and then with false humility accepted the title of "war hero" while the press ignores, disrespects, and often destroys the good name of our true war heroes. To me, that's like soiling sacred ground.

(You know with the ghostwriter's help you still get a full helping of Palin's poisonous venom dripping from words that actually make some kind of sense. That is what is missing from her interviews and free associating speeches.)

Palin then goes on to address the lie that Williams told, with equal servings of mock outrage and middle school vindictiveness. (She even gets a dig in about his use of a Teleprompter.)

Then she goes after her real target. The media.

An enlightened public grows more confident everyday knowing we do not have to settle for mainstream garbage insulting our intelligence as it's sold as "news". The American public deserves so much better and it's encouraging to see so many rise up and demand better. It's why we've turned off the old, we turn on the new, and we’ll never look back. 

(I find it interesting that she so readily embraces the new media when it has long been responsible for keeping her lies in check, and keeping her off balance concerning just when things will be revealed.)

Leftist media and their minions in politics tried for too long to fundamentally transform America with their shared assumption we would fall in line and bend our backs as they rode us with reins to control our individual sovereignty. America said enough is enough and we strengthened our spine so we could fight for freedom, sometimes requiring battles against our own leaders. 

(Holy crap! She actually doubled down on the bent back comment from her Iowa speech. Now see this is where a ghostwriter comes in handy, as Palin will now expand her attack on the "leftist media" to an attack on Hillary for her own exaggeration from 2008.)

Remember Hillary Clinton, always seeking the title of Commander in Chief, using a harrowing account of coming under enemy fire in Iraq?  Of course it didn't happen. But a protecting press excused her with sympathetic descriptions of an exhausting schedule – evidently a schedule having more negative impact than that of her equally busy male competitors, because it was blamed for her dramatic lapse in recalling a near-death war zone experience that was really all made up. It goes without asking, would the press have done the same with others we can think of, had she or he "mistakenly" claimed taking on such danger in their drive to win an election?

(Got a twofer there didn't she?)

It is right about now that Palin boldly steps into dangerous territory.

Taking the Williams and Clinton examples, it also goes without asking, if they lie about things like this, what and who else do they lie about? 

(The mere idea that Palin would suggest that people who lie should not be trusted indicates that she really feels confident that nobody will ever make her answer publicly for the many, many lies that she has told over the years. And she might be right so long as she hides on Facebook, and only gives interviews to Fox News.)

Be encouraged though, America! The demise of old media is a result of us saying, "No more." It shows you what you can accomplish as a free and exceptional nation! We demand truth in reporting by shifting a market away from those refusing to give it. We demand adherence to our Constitution by taking back our government from those refusing to do it. We demand the fundamental restoration of America by refusing to bend to anyone dangerously transforming it. 

Thank you for that! And thank the Lord for blessing us with the wisdom and wherewithal to get this done.

 - Sarah Palin

"Thank the Lord for blessing us with wisdom?" Seriously?

I have to say that this is the rare case where Palin is actually working with some real meat.

Indeed what Williams said is demonstrably untrue, and it will indeed cause substantial embarrassment. However it in no way detracts from his past reporting nor from the fact that his show "NBC Nightly News" easily wins its time slot every week.

And Hillary's Bosnia Sniper story is equally embarrassing and back in 2008 when I was blogging about the upcoming election I went after her over it as well. However the thing to keep in mind is that it WAS back in 2008, and everybody is over it now.

Everybody that is except Sarah Palin, who never lets ANYTHING go.

But this Facebook post was not really about going after Hillary and Brian. This Facebook post was about how Palin herself feels that SHE has been mistreated by the press, and how, from her perspective, she gets eviscerated for every misstep, while the media allows folks like Hillary and Brian Williams to get a free pass.

Aww, poor baby!

Update: It looks like Brian Williams might be in for a little vindication:

Explaining that he was piloting the Chinook helicopter following closely behind the one that was struck by an RPG, Krell said that his chopper “took small arms fire” in the attack. He said Williams “would have been aware of it because of the activity of the crew and the door gunners were returning fire” and said the small arms fire only creating some minor damage to the helicopter. 

Leaving the RPG question aside, Tapper asked if Krell took issue with other parts of the story Williams has been telling for years, “that the helicopter took small arms fire and that he was scared.” 

“Well, no, we were all scared. That’s the truth,” the pilot responded. He said could understand why members of the crew of the chopper that was struck by an RPG do “take issue” with Williams’ accounts. “I don’t think it was anything derogatory towards them,” he said. “I agree he needs to apologize and get the record set straight, but I don’t take offense to it personally, no.” 

Asked once more if Williams is being “accurate” when he said the helicopter he was in took fire, Krell replied, “Yes, that is a true statement.”

Hmm, well perhaps Williams is not such a big liar after all.

But we all know that Sarah Palin remains exactly that.