Palin is lying again about her support for earmarks, this time to ABC, but what's interesting to me is that she also lied about the very nature of what congressional pork is:
When Gibson noted she had requested funding to study the mating habits of crabs and other small-bore projects that typically draw John McCain's ire, Palin said the specific requests had come through universities and other public entities. She also said they weren't worked out by lobbyists behind closed doors.I'm surprised that Palin doesn't understand how pork earmarks work, considering she's gotten so many of them. I worked on getting pork earmarks for Alaska, it was my job. And many a project did not come through a "lobbyist," they came from universities and public entities and the like (though many of them still had lobbyists that they paid, so she's probably lying there too). Lots of pork, the kind of stuff John McCain rails against ever day, comes directly from people in the state who want the pork. You don't need a lobbyist to get it. Or is Palin saying that she'd be in favor of the American people spending hundreds of millions on the Bridge to Nowhere so long as a university or government agency proposed it and not a lobbyist? Because I worked on the Bridge to Nowhere too (though I never pushed the project because I thought it was dumb), and it was the city that was pushing it.
