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By The Daily Dish
Jul 9 2009, 11:53 AM ET

Sargent notes that the ADN has pried another bizarre lie out of the Palin administration:

Really? Staffers that would otherwise have contributed to police work, road repair, education, and sea research were pulled in to help the governor’s office deal with the legal ins and outs of ethics complaints? That’s the official explanation for Palin’s claim now?


Well, it will be for the next five minutes. Then another lie will come along. Note in particular that ABC News' Kate Moss Snow [Freudian slip] did not even question her bizarre claim that she was resigning to save the state "millions" in frivolous lawsuits, a claim that was suspicious on its face, debunked on the blogs and now a proven lie. But on ABC News, stenographers to the powerful, Kate Snow just sat there and let Palin state:



"We keep proving that every time we win an ethics violation lawsuit, and we've won every one of them. But it has been costing our state millions of dollars. It's cost Todd and me. You know the adversaries would love to see us put on the path of personal bankruptcy so that we can't afford to run."


No follow-up, just as ABC News point blank refused even to ask questions about the weirdnesses of her pregnancy story in their Charlie Gibson infomercial. When will TV news start being journalism again?

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