She says she does not "judge" gays but her church holds conferences to convert them.
The truth is her church did NOT hold the conference, another church in another city held the conference (and the word conference is correct. An organization PAID that church to use their facility) and the pastor of Palin's church was asked to put a notice in the weekly bulletin, which he says he did because to do otherwise would frankly be rude. Palin did not attend the conference.

Only other one I know was on uhh Anderson Cooper last night.

She says she is the governor of a state that produces "nearly 20% of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." It is about 2.5%
Ok there's not a huge difference here but its emblamatic -- why do people insist on lying when fucking talking about her lie!? Its not hard to look this shit up, there's even a non-partisan organization that does it for you!

From factcheck.org:

Palin would have been correct to say that Alaska produces just over 14 percent of all the oil produced in the U.S
However, she SAID "of the US domestic supply of ENERGY", not OIL. She's definitely stretching truth (McCain parroted the exact same line -- using energy not oil -- in an interview a few days later) but the truth is there are a fuckton of a lot of forms of energy other than oil, namely nuclear, that put off a lot more energy for the US than oil.

Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Next...
She fired the Wasilla police chief and librarian for not supporting her in the mayoral campaign.
Again not true. She fired the Wasilla police chief because he refused to fire her sisters ex-husband who regularly beat her sister, and made violent threats against the entire family. While that's not a particularly good thing for her to do, at least I can understand it. Its not because the chief "voted for the other guy", its because he put up the "thin blue wall" to protect his buddies.




My favorite smear has become "McCain cant use a computer!" which is factually true but totally unfucking fair. He can't use a computer because his war injuries won't permit him to put his arms in the 'typing' position. He was actually voted most technologically advanced senator by several magazines a few years ago.

The truth is he sits in bed every night with his wife and together they go through the emails.

Also note that Bill Clinton could not type, and in Dick Morris' book "Because He Could" Dick talked about a speech that Clinton wanted everyone to think he wrote himself -- so Dick Morris typed it (he wrote the speech), and as each page came off the typewriter he handed it to Clinton who wrote it down by hand. Over 300 pages of it.




I'm sick of talking politics because everyone fucking lies, stretches, distorts the truth.

When I read Scott McClellans book I thought he was a hack looking to make a buck now that he's jobless (and he probably is) but I'm beginning to agree with his point of view. The culture in Washington of the "permanent campaign" is fucking this country in the eye. Where everything has to be spun, and where the truth doesn't matter... I had hopes Obama would be different. He ain't. McCain *used* to be different, but he ain't now...

Blargh.