ABC/Tapper also picks up on Palin gaffe

A Confusing Comment on Fannie & Freddie From Gov. Sarah Palin
September 08, 2008 2:56 PM

Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo., Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said, "The fact is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers. The McCain-Palin administration will make them smaller and smarter and more effective for homeowners who need help."

"Too expensive to the taxpayers?" They're private entities. Though they're private entities ultimately backed up by the taxpayers. But the only way Fannie and Freddie are "too expensive to the taxpayers" is if you're talking about the bailout announced over the weekend. Is that what she meant? So, does "too expensive" mean that Palin opposes the bailout? Or did she misstate how these entities function?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/a-confusing-com.html
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Finally some in the media are doing their job. I am sure there will be more Palin gaffes to come.

to bring it to their attention and make some noise about it.

Sickening.

maybe much less.

I don't know about mental capacity but her knowledge base is tiny.

Knows very little about the lower 48, much less the rest of the world.

Sell em on EBAY :dunce:

in that "Comments" section...

Regular tornadoes like "She's right - They are costing us maybe trillions of dollars - didn't you read it?" (they seem to be tense challenged)

And I wonder about him a little. I just finished reading another thread where he conflated an entire 13 min response from Biden on foreign policy into a single run-on paragraph for effect. Ok, it was long, but it wasn't incoherent. Biden detractors were really eating it up.

My problem with this piece above is he almost seems to be trying to throw her a rope. Like maybe she only mispoke or was misunderstood.
He leaves it open to question.

Most are not even mentioning it.

Oh wait---

Likely to be a puff piece.

I have posted some there in the past but the wing-nut weirdos tend to dominate.

Unless it's on the nightly news, Joe Public knows nothing of it. Only politics junkies read news blogs.

The media has been in full "Palin orgasmic" mode for days. This suggests that may be turning.