Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Sarah Palin gets her facts wrong - AGAIN
Former half-term governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, in the only interview she’s granted (to her employer FoxNews) during her “One Nation” bus tour, claimed that the U.S. federal debt had grown more under Obama than “all those other presidents combined.”
This is flatly false. When Obama took office the debt stood at $10.6 trillion. After inheriting two wars and the worst economy since the Great Depression, the debt has grown by $3.7 trillion since Obama has been in office. Palin is off by about $7 trillion.
(via thinkprogress.org)
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Phhhht!
ReplyDelete"Facts"- who needs'em!
This is why I'm not concerned if Palin runs. When, she gets before journalists with any skill at all she crumbles under the pressure of being uninformed, not particularly smart, and waaaay to accustomed to spouting gibberish for her Tea Party Know Nothings to lap up.
I'm actually happy if she runs cuz it'll simply draw support and campaign contributions down the sinkhole on the Republican far-right.