Palin Falsely Claimed Report Cleared Her of Legal Wrong-Doing

[Joanne98]

It's fair to say that Trooper-Gate hasn't exactly burnished Sarah Palin's reputation for honesty. And in a conference call she gave Saturday to respond to the legislature's report on the affair released Friday night, that reputation took another hit.

Palin opened her remarks by declaring:


I'm very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there.

But of course, it's simply untrue that the report cleared Palin of legal wrongdoing or unethical activity.

Steve Branchflower did conclude that Palin was within her rights to fire Walt Monegan -- since, as governor, she can fire any executive branch official for any reason.

But he also concluded, just as definitively, that Palin pressured and intimidated subordinates in trying to force the firing of Mike Wooten. In doing so, Branchflower wrote, she violated a state ethics law which says that "any effort to benefit a personal or financial interest through official action" is a violation of the public trust.

When an Anchorage Daily News reporter followed up by reminding the governor of this finding, she did not respond directly.

(Below is the audio from the call, preceded by some video footage from over the weekend of Palin calling the Trooper-Gate inquiry "a partisan kind of process.")

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. I wasn't expecting, "OK, you got me . . . . "

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The barracuda told a bold-faced lie? Well, I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked!!

:evilgrin:

[Overseas]

3. If I recall, she issued her own exoneration report the day before

the special prosecutor's report was due out.

Now isn't that special?

Or shall we say, how conveeeeeeeeenient !

[Zenlitened]

4. It's no accident she said that.

It's part of the GOP's "create a new reality every day" strategy they've been using for years.

Though Palin's use of the technique is pretty clumsy, like everything else she does, in general the Republicans have been pretty successful with it.

Well... successful in the way Charles Manson was "successful" in building a little "family" for himself.

[SuperTrouper]

5. Embarracuda never ceases to amaze me.

[Metta]

6. What else is new? She lies for sport. Bearing false witness about herself, her kind of Christian.

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