Comments on: Despite Media Spin– Palin DID Put Plane On Ebay– Here’s the Ad…

By: jaded citizen

jaded citizen — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:52:57 +0000

Here are the facts:

After going unsold for months, the jet was put into the hands of Turbo North Aviation, an Anchorage aircraft broker, which put an asking price of $2.45 million on the nearly $2.7 million jet. It quickly sold to Alaska businessman Larry Reynolds for $2.1 million ($31,000 of which went to Turbo Aviation). Today the Westwind II jet spends its days ushering wealthy hunters around Alaska and Russia

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:24:27 +0000

Obama corrected himself, McCain did not.
That is the difference Bart, now eat my shorts!

By: meatbrain

meatbrain — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:22:46 +0000

“McCain misspeaks and it is a lie.”

McCain did not misspeak. He invented a false narrative about the plane and presented it to the American people as the truth. That’s called “lying”.

By: Bart

Bart — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:46:58 +0000

Holy Crap! So, Obama tells a lie and it is misspeaking. McCain misspeaks and it is a lie. Glad to know all of you kool aid drinkers have a clear understanding of the difference. Anything Obama says or does is truth and the right thing. Anything McCain or Palin says or does that is the same thing Obama does is a lie and the wrong thing. Glad you straightened me out on that. Now I know how to listen to the candidates.

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:27:43 +0000

Gregy, those Obama statements were him misspeaking, and the one about his grandparents in Aushwitz or whatever was corrected by his Campaign.
Do you understand the difference between misspeaking and diseaving the public by reading from a speech? and then McCain stating untrue facts, and not correcting them?

By: meatbrain

meatbrain — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:42:27 +0000

News Hounds, 09/05:

“And as for the jet? During her VP acceptance speech, Palin said she “put [it] on” eBay, implying of course, that it sold here, though she didn’t actually say that it did. Today, during a campaign stop in Wisconsin, McCain himself said, “You know what I enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay, and made a profit!” It sounds to me like this is actually more about the GOP presidential candidate outright lying (or being so out of it that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about), and that is the news � not so much that McCain is “still working” on Palin’s biography (though I’m still amazed at that). Palin didn’t plop the plane on eBay, sell it and save the state a bunch of money as they would have us believe. It sold off of eBay and the state actually lost more than half a mil. Not exactly the fairy tale McCain wants us to believe.”

By: meatbrain

meatbrain — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:33:33 +0000

“In the latest smear to discredit Governor Palin, the liberal media claims that the popular governor did not sell the governor�s jet on Ebay.”

You’re lying again, Jimmycrap.

What the CBS News story you link to states is, (quoting the Washington Post):

“It appears that, as promised during her bid for governor in 2006, Palin did try to sell the plane on eBay but that doing so was not as easy as it might have sounded. After putting it up to auction, there was one serious bid, in December 2006, and it fell through.”

Clearly, CBS states that the plane was put up for sale on eBay. This is true.

Clearly CBS states that the plane did not sell on eBay. This is true.

Clearly, CBS documents the fact that John McCain lied about the sale. This is something you lack the integrity to acknowledge.

Why are you lying to your readers, Jimmycrap?

By: Greg Schneck

Greg Schneck — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:41:23 +0000

So…. why does the press write dozens of articles about Palin’s “not quite accurate” remark but they give Obama a complete pass? Like when he mis-spoke about the number of states in the US, when he mis-spoke about his relative who went into “Auschwitz” (wrong). The fact is she said she put it on eBay and it WAS put on ebay. And unlike Obama, her statement was at least true.

By: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:40:47 +0000

Talk about misleading articles…
The plane was listed on eBay, so what Palin said was technically correct, but as misleading as this article.
The plane DID NOT SELL on eBay. They had to use a broker to sell it. What McCain said after about it was wrong. McCain said she sold it on eBay, which did not happen.