This week...
Nothing happened, absolutely nothing. Well that's not quite true. Sarah Palin continued to use her 'thanks but no thanks on the bridge to nowehere' and 'put the plane on ebay' stories in her stump speech, days after the media showed without doubt that these stories really weren't, you know, accurate. And unlike the British media, who would frankly have destoryed her by this point, the American news's main story on Tuesday was that she was continuing to use these stories, but by Wednesday they were carrying the same stump speech, with the same 'inaccuracies' live for at least the second day in a row...
The big news on Wednesday was that Obama had called Sarah Palin a pig. Although he hadn't, not at all, not in anyway. Apparently over here there's a fairly common expression that 'you can put a lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig', to describe John McCain's economic plan but because he used the magic word 'lipstick' he was clearly calling Sarah Palin a pig, obviously.
Elsewhere the Republican campaign continued to spread other stories that weren't, you know, accurate. Prompting the media to ask, have the campaigns 'lied too much' this year. I wonder when they crossed the line from an acceptable amount of lying to an unacceptable point of lying?
In other news Sarah Palin gave her first interview to the press, two weeks after being put on the presidential ticket and a week after the Republican's claimed that she wouldn't be doing interviews. General consensus - she did ok, meh. But she did give this rather wonderful answer to way she was contnuing to talk about 'the bridge to no where' and the 'plane on ebay' in her stump speech.
Watch: Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
Obama on David Letterman
The Daily Show, just because
