Teleprompted lying, Palin-style

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Oh, look, it's another lie from Sarah Palin.

Some right-wing blogs -- like RedState, if I remember correctly, as well as Drudge -- were reporting that the teleprompter broke during Palin's convention speech and that she had more or less ad libbed it. The story was quickly shot down, including at the Politico, where Jonathan Martin, an eyewitness, reported that, in fact, the teleprompter was working fine.

Well, the lie just won't die, and now it's Palin herself telling it, stating at a fundraiser yesterday evening:

There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me. The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn't follow it, and I just decided I'd just talk to the people in front of me. It was Ohio.

Uh-huh. And -- can you guess? -- just where was this fundraiser at which she made this claim? Ohio. Of course. (Oh, it was in Canton. Maybe McCain can go there and claim he invented football.)

The lies and untruths just keep piling up. Taken together, it's all so grotesquely shameless, so abhorrently cynical, it's like one big "Fuck you!" to the American people.

For more, see Benen.