Exposing another leftist lie about Sarah Palin

Newsreal's David Swindle is not a Sarah Palin supporter. He doesn’t think John McCain should have chosen her as a running mate, doesn't want her to be the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, and he's not fond of much of her rhetoric. In fact, Swindle doesn't even like her at all. Yet when Bill Maher told a bald-faced lie about the former governor, Swindle disliked the mischaracterization of her words even less and was motivated to post this debunking of Maher's liberal lie:

Did Sarah Palin really say that America should never apologize for its mistakes? I had a suspicion that perhaps there was more context to this quote. So I went digging to find this quote’s source. And I found where RealClearPolitics (RCP) had posted it here:

Gov. Sarah Palin told supporters to “continue to love our country, be proud of our country [and] never apologize for our country.”

But that’s not true. She doesn’t say that. It’s a misquote.

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She actually says:

Let us continue to love our country, be proud of our country, and never apologize for being Americans.

The misquote is also in this article from Politico.

Swindle is willing to give Maher the benefit of the doubt and entertains the possibility that the commie comic just misread the Palin quote or someothing. We aren't willing to give him the benefit of anything. Bill Maher is nasty little man who mocks everything that is good and decent about America, and we don't doubt for a second that he's willing to lie like a dog in the bend of a dirt road to do it.

Swindle, at least, cares enough about the truth and patriotic Americans to defend Sarah Palin, someone he doesn't even like, just to set the record straight. Which is more than anyone can say for Maher.

- JP