The Associated Press obtained a copy of Sarah Palin's new book, and came away with several scooplets, including the following:
"... [S]he says that most of her legal bills were generated defending what she called frivolous ethics complaints, but she reveals that about one-tenth of the $500,000 was a bill she received to pay for the McCain campaign vetting her for the VP nod.
She said when she asked the McCain campaign if it would help her financially, she was told McCain's camp would have paid all the bills if he'd won; since he lost, the vetting legal bills were her responsibility."
Without having read the book, and without knowing precisely what the AP is summarizing, it's hard to know what this charge entails. (Note: the AP originally reported that Palin was given a bill for $500,000.)
It's not legal for general election matching funds to pay for
pre-emptive legal defense; the McCain campaign did not believe it was
legal for GELAC funds -- a separate account that paid for fundraising
complaince -- to pay for the investigations either. But vetting is a
poor word to choose. The McCain campaign footed the bill for Art
Culvahouse's investigation of Palin before she was elected. Palin was
urged by campaign lawyers to set up a legal defense fund to pay for the
investigations and ethics complaints that had nothing to do with her
presidential bid.
The dispute speaks to tensions between the McCain campaign and
Palin's personal lawyer, Thomas Van Flein. A bridge of trust betwixt
the two was never built.
Both Van Flein and Palin's media lawyer, Robert Barnett, declined to comment.
Who is Sarah Palin?
Sarah Palin is the political figure who causes sub-morons to write blog comments such as "Who is Sarah Palin?"
Sarah Palin is irrelevant.
Actually, "Who is Sarah Palin?" is just about the pithiest comment possible on the subject at hand.
This one will be very easy to track down. It will probably wind up boiling down to the Lovely Sarah's misrepresentation of her legal defense expenses as "vetting." We all know that Palin is a documented serial liar from the get-go.
Ambinder - doesn't this just seem like one of Palin's many LIES?
Seriously, how long are journalists going to pretend Palin is a serious reality-based person?
Why give her this much credibility? That goofy gal had her unaccountable 15 minutes of fame when McCain had that wild hare and thought he's capitalize on the inmates-running-the-asylum that is the new GOP base...and she's trying like mad to parlay that 15 minutes into a new career.
Magic Dog follows the left's character assassination strategy by calling Palin a "documented serial liar," based entirely on Andrew Sullivan's frothing unreason. This is the same Andrew Sullivan who simply cannot believe that Gov. Palin bore her own son Tripp, but still trails the smoking forceps that will finally prove that she was covering for her teenage daughter -- the one who got pregnant a few months before Tripp was born. I remember reading the first five items on Sullivan's list of "proved lies," dismissing four of them as perfervid nonsense (I didn't know enough facts to comment on the fifth), and declaring the rest a waste of time.
But, Sullivan fits the meme for the left, so to the unthinking on the left, Palin is a "documented serial liar." It's curious that they don't use such phrases to describe President Obama, whose past associations were filled with details he was "shocked to learn." How many of them did he lie outright about? Ten? Twelve? But that does not make him a serial liar; no. That label gets pasted on Sarah Palin for using the Bridge to Nowhere as evidence of her fiscal sense -- which it was.
I don't know if I favor a Palin presidential candidacy in 2012, but if that's an example of her "lying," we need more "liars" like her.
It isn't that Obama doesn't lie; it's that he's a competent liar.
I think you're "out of line".
Why don't you share with us your refutations of some of Sullivan's charges, Bob?
(This I gotta hear.)
Marc, it's simple. Nothing she says can be believed, because she's a serial liar.
forked tongue serial liar I like that
Remember when she lied about turning down some money for a bridge one of the other crooked Alaskan politicians bought for the state?
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I hope something good comes out of this Palin stuff, like everyone replaying that footage of McCain staring at her butt and twisting his wedding ring. http://is.gd/4Ui7P
"Why don't you share with us your refutations of some of Sullivan's charges, Bob?"
I second that request.
Either Sarah Palin is a liar or McCain's people are a-holes. This is a classic win-win.
I don't think this is an either-or situation. Both are true.
We know that Palin is a liar. that evidence is old news.
McCain hired people to handle Palin like Tucker Eskew, whose previous claim to fame was running around South Carolina in 2000 spreading rumors that McCain fathered a little mulatto baby. I also believe he hired Fred Malek to keep an eye on Palin. Malek is best known as Dick Nixon's "jew counter". The quickest way to being an a-hole is to be a racist like Malek and Eskew.
Sullivan's list is airtight, but Plumb Bob doesn't dare engage it. Instead, he attacks Sullivan in typical far-right wingnut fashion.
"Sarah Palin's media lawyer." I'm trying to imagine.
I like the commercials her daughter's baby daddy are in with his shirt off.
The comments I read here are those of children. That should not surprise me. The Democrat Party is the "Child Party." They suffer from the Galloping Gimmies. What is the difference between a Liberal and a Conservative? Conservatives are "Reasonable and Accountable" Anyone who demands that others pay taxes for someone else's abortion, and see as it being "unconscionable" if they don't, lacks basic common sense.