Palin: Pallin' With Hypocrisy

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been locked away for years. Living in Alaska and being a steward of ANWR is like having a beautiful young daughter. She's a virgin now, and you want her to stay pristine as long as possible. However, when the day comes, you want it to be with someone who knows about romance, safety, commitment and respect; not some frat guy at a party. The majority of Alaskans would go along with the opening of ANWR if it weren't drilled by a proven environmental rapist like EXXON. Last spring, there was a buzz running through local talk radio shows. The renewed desire to drill ANWR had overtaken Alaska like an adolescent 13 year old boy with a new Victoria Secret Catalog. Arctic Power, a private lobbying company, hired by the State of Alaska to lobby congress to open ANWR for oil drilling, was ready to hire a spokesman.

I wondered how their initial meeting had gone. "Hey, Alaska, let's have a party! Hannibal Lecter will be the chef, Jim Jones will pour drinks, and G. Gordon Liddy will promote the opening of ANWR!" Where do I RSVP? Arctic Power, who was awarded $120,000 in state funds, thought the ambassador to reach across the aisle was Watergate conspirator and talk radio host, G. Gordon Liddy. The hook would be a live G-Man broadcast from Alaska. With boots on the ground, he could testify how barren and ripe for drilling ANWR was.

Alaska is rich with political scandal: The infamous Bridges to Nowhere, Congressman Don Young's Coconut Road, Senator Ted Stevens' chalet upgrades, Senator Lisa Murkowski's friends and family land deal and former legislators sitting in federal penitentiaries for selling their votes, give us a not-so-savory reputation. We have enough political convicts, no need to import a notorious felon to be spokesman for opening ANWR. According to Governor Sarah Palin's former staff member Larry Persily, the Governor thought it was a good idea and planned to make an appearance on G.Gordon Liddy's program. When suggested that a Watergate operative may not be a smart choice, Arctic Power co-chair, Mike Navarre, suggested most people didn't know of Liddy's background and his role in President Nixon's administration and demise.

Letters to newspapers came pouring in, as did phone calls to the Governor's office. "I think it's terrible. If Alaska wants to put the best face on things it's probably best to not hire felons," Senator Kim Elton said.

Sarah Palin attacking Barack Obama's relationship with William Ayers is ironic. She's playing a pit bull, but it's not the Palin we know. The Palin we know wouldn't have known who William Ayers was.

"Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country," Palin told a rally of about 10,000 gathered at a tennis stadium in Carson, California. "Our opponent...is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," she said on the same day in Englewood, Colorado. Palin is referring to William Ayers. There are obvious controversies around the activist career of Bill Ayers, but the connections to Obama are peripheral. Bill Ayers has never been arrested, he turned himself into authorities and he never went to jail. He is professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has fought hard for education reform in his community. According to Palin's qualifications of "pallin' around", John McCain and G. Gordon Liddy are practically blood brothers. McCain and Liddy have been longtime friends and McCain has publicly stated "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family." He went on to say, "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great." After the last eight years, I don't hold the same regard for presidential operatives covering up crimes of the administration they work for. Liddy has contributed money to McCain's campaign and held several fund raisers in his home.

Mike Navarre was right in his assumption Alaskans wouldn't remember who G. Gordon Liddy was. Maybe Sarah Palin was one of those. She funded the lobbyist group who dreamed it up, and was willing to be on the G-Man's radio show. Did Palin know Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, wiretapping, contempt of court and contempt of Congress? Did Palin know Liddy was willing to kill a janitor and a journalist as part of the Watergate cover-up? Did Palin know Liddy admitted plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution? What about the plan to kidnap protesters at the 1972 Republican National Convention? Did Palin not know Liddy served a more than four years in prison? Or did Sarah Palin, like John McCain, celebrate and consider Liddy's terrorist activities to be "principles and philosophies that keep our nation great?" It is an interesting and relevant footnote; In the late 1960s when Bill Ayers was involved with the Weatherman protesting a bloody, never-ending war that killed 58,000 Americans, he was in his early 20s; In the early 1970s when G. Gordon Liddy was involved in his criminal activities, he was in his early 40s. Maybe Sarah Palin's excuse is she was only eight years old when the G-Man was plotting his terrorist acts.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Comments

[skirtingtheedge]

It's astonishing that the McCain/Palin campaign is willing to open this Pandora's box of guilt by association. Expect the Rev. Wright tapes to be played 24/7 again sometime soon. Why is the MSM not willing to dig up the dirt on the other side and do the tit for tat stuff? After all the very shady and must more damaging associations that both McCain and Palin have are REAL! And there are several tapes that prove Palin's "unusual" religious practices and associations. Democrats are civil and don't like to wallow in the mud. Thanks god, most Americans can see thru the obvious attempts to shift the dialog to "culture". Obama knows it's all a game. He's smart. He's steady. He's ready. He knows what he's doing.

[BarackMarley]

Yup Hypocrisy at its finest. Palin's ties to radical Alaskan secessionists are way stronger than looses tie Obama had to Ayers 40 yearsafter the fact.

Here's an Interview With the AKIP Chairman on PAlin's Involvement.
http://newsone.blackplanet.com/elections/akip-interview-on-palin/

[KansasNative]

Please take time to send emails to the networks with these issues of McCain's connections to criminals. Ask them why they are not reporting on them. All we see are playbacks of the lies McCain, Mrs. McCain, and Palin are saying. We need to make our numbers count instead of spending so much time talking to those who agree with our ideas. Please. Please. Please. Thank you.

[RRG64]

Well done. Keep moving forward.

[WritusMaximus]

The folks at Morning Joe are pumping up Palin so she can challenge Hillary. Joe pointed out that Palin is really, really smart by focusing on how Palin shot down a heckler with a zinger/a clever comeback, never mind that Palin's performance in interviews and at the debate where a candidate must expand and explain their statements/views was abysmal. You see, one has to be quick on her feet to be able to fire them one-liners/zingers, and because Palin can do just that she has proved to be just as smart if not smarter than the folks who criticize her. Now there is winkin' at ya from a smart gal, maverick!

[rex2112]

She may have some street smarts, but she isn't smart, smart!

[kwalters]

That "zinger," like everything coming out of Palin's mouth, was from a 3X5 index card. She said to the heckler, ""Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest." ANOTHER LIE! Her son is fighting in Iraq because he is a thug. At 16, he, along with 3 other school chums, cut the brake lines on 50 Mat-Su School buses. Then he was busted for drugs. The JUDGE gave him the choice between JAIL or the Military. That is why Track is in Iraq trying to stay alive. This is an open secret is the Wasilla.

[ThePeacemakers]

"Or did Sarah Palin, like John McCain, celebrate and consider Liddy's terrorist activities to be "principles and philosophies that keep our nation great?" ..."

Fascists is not overdoing it as a description...

[Shannyn Moore - Huffpost Blogger]

Oh, my favorite "F" word. Fascists.

[FALCON72]

No, Palin wouldn't know anything about G. Gordon Liddy. She has never read a book that had sentences composed of more than four words. Unless it was about putting lipstick on her lying lips. She can only repeat the lines of a script given to her the night before. And she is so enthralled with the adoring crowds, swept up in the ability to get them screaming threats against her opponent. She actually finds that flattering. What a pathetic figure she will be when all the fanfare around her disappears after November 4th. How ill prepared she will be when the angry right wing focus their blame on her for losing the election. And I won't feel one bit sorry for her.

[sociocanuck]

Very nicely done.

[gvc]

I'm sure that O's team has another web spot in their magazine.

[RebelCPA]

McCain's Friend G. Gordon Liddy also made the following incendiary comment about WACO:

In 1994, after the disastrous federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, he gave some advice to his listeners: "Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. ... Kill the sons of bitches."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0504chapmanmay04,0,6238795.column

[Huggybare]

From a Friend I give you...

Realm of Liars
(to the tune of Sounds of Silence)

Hello delusion, my old friend
I'll let you talk for me again
Our propaganda we believe
Voting public we hope to deceive
Lies and falsehood that we planted in their brain
Still remain
Within the realm of liars

Maverick me, I walk alone
While the people lose their homes
I turn my back on regulation
Free market"s good for the nation
When it failed I claimed to have finally seen the light
Oversight
And touched the realm of liars

And in the conference hall I saw
One thousand people, maybe more
Palin talking about treason
People accepting without reason
People making claims that logic cannot bear
And no one dared
Disturb the realm of liars

"My friends", said I, "You do not know
Liberals like a cancer grow
Teaching sex ed to your toddlers
Criminal and terrorist coddlers"
And these words, like eagle droppings fell
It"s what we sell
In the realm of liars

And our people bowed and prayed
A neo-con god they had made
Executive power in my grasp
This is Democracy"s last gasp
And the words on the parchment that originally started it all,
Began to fall
Whisked away to the realm of liars

[rex2112]

Wow, that's powerful and thought provoking. Nicely done.

[popizzy]

Great reading. When is Obama or someone in the MSM going to hit McPalin over the head with this and knock them off their high horse?

[expert47]

Shannyn,

Where is the Who Is Sarah Palin? story?

Come on, my friend, you can do it! the key would be to keep it short enough to fit on the page!

[darker]

Oh well, y'all...Palin is just another CORRUPT REPUBLICAN HUCKSTER OF GREED.

No more years for Republican corruption and lies.
We can't afford Republicans any more!!