The Washington Post Distorts Palin On Page One

by William Kristol - September 12th, 2008 - The Weekly Standard

Here are the headline and the first two paragraphs from an article posted online that apparently will be on the front page of Friday’s Washington Post:

“Palin Links Iraq to 9/11, A View Discarded by Bush"
By Anne E. Kornblut - Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 12, 2008; A01

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 -- Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would "defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans."

The idea that Iraq shared responsibility with al-Qaeda for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself. On any other day, Palin's statement would almost certainly have drawn a sharp rebuke from Democrats, but both parties had declared a halt to partisan activities to mark Thursday's anniversary.”

Kornblut’s interpretation of what Palin said is either stupid or malicious.

I sometimes think liberals are pathologically incapable of telling the truth. When the meticulously polite Bill Kristol finds it necessary to say that something is "stupid or malicious" you know that they have gone totally over the line of decency.

Right now liberals believe that saying anything at all about Governor Sarah Palin is okay, no matter how outrageous, because she is harming their idol Barack Obama. The Magic Marxist has dropped nearly 10 points in polls since Governor Palin was announced as the Republican VP candidate, and the fall continues at this point. This interview is the first chance the liberals get to misquote and mis-characterize her directly, and they still are operating on the belief that they have to smear her before the American people really get to know her.

Don't expect that these smear attacks will lessen any time soon. That Anne E. Kornblut found it necessary to lie about what Governor Palin said is proof that Palin did a really good job on her first interview. The lie is necessitated by the fact that she said nothing wrong.