Here's the description on YouTube, I think this pretty much nails it.
Speaking before troops bound for Iraq, Palin linked the Iraq war with the September 11th terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an idea that has long been debunked and rejected."You'll be there to defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans," Palin said.
At one time, the Bush Administration promoted the notion that the Iraq war was linked to the 9-11 attacks but the idea has since been dropped by even President Bush.
Meanwhile, see Paul Krugman's new column, "Blizzard of Lies," in which he writes - truthfully! - that "the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute, and repeating these assertions over and over again."
Then, there's this LA Times article, which points to the McCain campaign's "new election low" - actually "distorting FactCheck's debunking of distortions."
Now, Sarah Palin resurrects the old Bush-Cheney lie that Iraq has something to do with 9/11. The McCain campaign outrageously claims that Barack Obama, in using an old expression about trying to make things look better than they really are, somehow called Sarah Palin a "pig" (if anything, in the metaphor, he would have been calling McCain the "pig" and Palin the "lipstick" on the "pig," but that's not even what Obama did). TThe bottom line is this: John McCain's Karl Rove campaign will say anything (the "blizzard of lies") and do anything (e.g., picking a "cocky wacko" - former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee's phrase - like Sarah Palin as running mate) to get elected. As Paul Krugman writes, if "the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication," they would be "much, much worse" than Bush-Cheney. That may be frightening, but it's no lie!
Mr. McCain's increasingly aggressive campaign has sought to put Mr. Obama on the defensive in each news cycle, using any development at hand, like Mr. Obama's colloquial comment this week about putting "lipstick on a pig," to keep attention away from Democratic messages about the economy and the similarities between Mr. McCain and Mr. Bush.
That's right, anything so people don't talk about real issues - the economy, health care, energy, etc. - because the McCain campaign knows if this is about real issues, they lose.
Why not publish graphic-type novels or comic books first of Obama's terrific life story; then do another on, say, health care showing in graphic detail how Obama's health program saved the day for an average American in contrast to the heartless and expensive same-old same-old Bush-McCain crap; mortgage foreclosure and financial system meltdown can be done graphically, showing how the Republicans are nothing more than puppets and serfs of their corporate masters; graphics on true difference in tax proposals is easily graphed and can show impoverished middle class vs wealthy elitist Republicans (looking like capitalist pigs, no doubt). Why not have snappy sound bites repeated endlessly for a few days, then come up with a new one? Where are the crushing nicknames for Republicans, the nasty characterizations of Republican policies and lies )"there you go again" is a mild form of spearing some of the lies). Obama can continue his measured and presidential way, with only an occasional humorous dig at the opposition, while all this is going on thanks to surrogates. See my comment below the Lebanon Rally, Part II, please.