February 25, 2009
Let me Count the Lies
No. Let the AP Fact Checkers.. (Hat-tip: Insty and read the whole thing.)
Did anybody's house not explode last night when he talked about "the country that invented the car?" Oh, he meant Henry Ford inventing the assembly line. Judges? I don't think that would work on "Jeopardy" even if he did phrase it as a question.
I think we apply the Governor Sarah Palin test: WWTMSMDISPDI? Judges? Yes "What is apoplexy?"
Apply the Sarah Palin test to one other newsitem (Hat-tip: Taranto)
How can the public know that the money is allocated correctly? That’s the question CBS’s Maggie Rodriguez asked.“We’re going to put every bit of this transparently up on a website. You’re gonna know. You’ll be able to go on a website. Every single bit of this will be on a website,” he explained.
What website?
“You know, I’m embarrassed. Do you know the website number?” he asked looking offstage. “I should have it in front of me and I don’t. I’m actually embarrassed.”
He was able to get the website “number” from someone off camera.
“Recovery.gov. It’s Recovery.gov. It’s up and running,” he said with newfound confidence.
Nope, nobody messes with Joe. The same way you don't "mess with" a slobbering delusional alcoholic at the bus stop. Methinks if Governor Palin had referred to a "website number--" Judges? "What is soil their trousers?" Ding-ding. Posted by John Kranz at February 25, 2009 5:17 PM
Defenders of Joe (DOJ - or "Dodge" for short) point out that websites actually do have numbers. However, The Refugee is pretty certain that if you said "IP address" to Joe, he'd direct you to the men's room.
Posted by: Boulder Refugee at February 25, 2009 6:32 PMDefenders of Joe are reachin'! Nobody would give the address of a new government website by IP address. (Love the joke, br, maybe something about "Larry Craig's already in there?")
Again I ask (rhetorically) whether Governor Palin would be offered the same benefit of the doubt. I'm left with Jonah Goldberg's observation that "Biden could go on 'Meet the Press' and shout 'Get the squirrels off of me!' and they would say 'Joe's just being Joe.' But if Sarah Palin mispronounces the name of the deputy agricultural minister to Uzbekistan..."
Posted by: jk at February 25, 2009 7:25 PMJK, not "lies"... differently perceived truth.
Posted by: AlexC at February 25, 2009 9:22 PM | What do you think? [3]