Couldn't ask for a more perfect illustration of what's wrong with journalism in this country.

No doubt, a couple of years after they've managed to elect McCain and with his approval numbers mired in the single digits, they'll be running the usual mea culpa articles about their piss-poor campaign coverage. How many times have we seen this movie now?

""While campaigning in Ketchikan in September 2006, Palin indicated support for the bridge project, assuming there was no better alternative."""

Then as Governor, she found that alternative. She cancelled the bridge and said if Alaska needs it, Alaska will pay for it.

Rather then forcing all of America to cough up their hard earned money for some Senators re-election earmarks.

Cowardice by any other name.

1) She kept the money.
2)She's STILL building the connecting road to nowhere (which will now dead-end at a beach!)because THAT money would have to be given back otherwise.

So much for principled opposition to earmarks.

1) She kept the money.
2)She's STILL building the connecting road to nowhere (which will now dead-end at a beach!)because THAT money would have to be given back otherwise.

Sweet! And it's not dead-ending if it goes to a beach. Even in Alaska.

I like this woman more and more.

anonymous wrote: "Then as Governor, she found that alternative. She cancelled the bridge and said if Alaska needs it, Alaska will pay for it."

I believe she "cancelled" it after the funding was in jeopardy. Before that she campaigned in buidling the bridge to nowhere:
-----Newspaper report:
Congress eventually removed the earmark language but the money still went to Alaska, leaving it up to the administration of then-Gov. Frank Murkowski to decide whether to go ahead with the bridges or spend the money on something else.

In September, 2006, Palin showed up in Ketchikan on her gubernatorial campaign and said the bridge was essential for the town's prosperity.

She said she could feel the town's pain at being derided as a "nowhere" by prominent politicians, noting that her home town, Wasilla, had recently been insulted by the state Senate president, Ben Stevens.

"OK, you've got Valley trash standing here in the middle of nowhere," Palin said, according to an account in the Ketchikan Daily News. "I think we're going to make a good team as we progress that bridge project."
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http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/511471.html

She used what money alaska got to build the access-route to nowhere for a non-existent bridge.

Some courageous stand there.

Has anyone checked out the backgrounds of all the new faces doing political coverage in the WaPo? Bet you'd find that many of them came up through DC-insider publications during the Republican ascendancy, and depended on good sourcing with GOP congressional and lobbying types for their stories.

Somerby, as he usually does, manages to make the key point about this entire discussion. By the time Palin was running for Governer, the bridge earmark had already been dropped from the Congressional bill. It didn't exist anymore. So whatever issues she was fighting with respect to building the bridge had nothing to do with anything going on in Washington. This entire discussion is based upon an utterly stupid and transparent lie told by Palin on her very first day of campaigning in practically the first words out of her mouth.

There is one thing that the "Democrats Say..." preface tells us: that the Post wouldn't have reported on it had the Democrats not pointed it out.

The lack of research, and reliance on he-said, she-said reporting has gotten so bad that the only way real information can find it into the papers is if one of the parties provides it.

Check out the 11 pages of comments over at WaPo - many attack Democrats for making what WaPo claims is an allegation. I guess the truth has a liberal bias.

I would have focused on the word "assuming" in the account of what she said rather than the word "initially" in the headline...

Sweet! And it's not dead-ending if it goes to a beach. Even in Alaska.

A conservative supporting a federal government funded infrastructure project...for a road...to a beach...in Alaska? Really?

Perhaps private industry should build a toll road to this supposed family friendly fantastic getaway location. I'm sure they'll rake in tons of cash.

Brent is right -- please read the Daily Howler today! I will quote his comment again for emphasis:

"By the time Palin was running for Governer, the bridge earmark had already been dropped from the Congressional bill. It didn't exist anymore. So whatever issues she was fighting with respect to building the bridge had nothing to do with anything going on in Washington. This entire discussion is based upon an utterly stupid and transparent lie told by Palin on her very first day of campaigning in practically the first words out of her mouth."

Democrats claim that they don't beat their wives!

Nothing worse than a pro-life Bambi killer with a daughter who can't keep her legs crossed.

Boy are THEY wasting their money...

It is all so simple: Gov. Palin was for the bridge before she was against it.

As the game is set to be released on September 18th many players will be pushing hard to level their characters as fast as possible as well as farming as much gold as they can on the process. Warhammer gold is valued the highest during the start of the game when every player is striving to get as much of it as possible into their own hands.