Shocker! Jonathan Martin Lies About Sarah Palin Again

In a message on her Facebook Notes page, Sarah Palin addressed the "coin controversy":

Coin Controversy?

It is stunning to read and hear about this “coin controversy.” At a recent speech in Milwaukee I discussed the troubling fact that we too often move God to the side in our public life, and gave as an example the shift of the words “In God We Trust” to the edge of the dollar coin. My comments were not about this President or this Congress – this change predated them. I was merely making a point about a disturbing trend in our country, after which I moved on to discuss some encouraging trends. People who try to read more into such straightforward comments are working hard to find a controversy where there is none.

- Sarah Palin

What's this all about?

We called Politico out for constantly campaigning against Sarah Palin and Jonathan Martin for his false witnessing about speaker's fees that the former governor never intended to charge a group in Iowa, and we did it here.

Now the mendacious Martin and prevaricating Politico have done it again:

In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coins.

Noting that there had been a lot of "change" of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase "In God We Trust" had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

"Who calls a shot like that?" she demanded. "Who makes a decision like that?"

She added: "It’s a disturbing trend.”"

Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.

But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush.

Implied? Martin lied.

K. Carpenter was in the audience at that event, and here's some of what she had to say about it in a post at C4P:

The theme for the entire night was changes that have taken place in this country when it comes to the pro-life movement. This country is no longer siding with the abortion movement. A recent Gallup poll shows that 51% of Americans are now pro-life and only 42% are pro-abortion.

This is a change, a real change, not just a political slogan.

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Since the birth of this nation, hundreds of thousands of candidates have run on the theme of “change”. President Obama did not invent the theme. It is the most commonly used political theme in our nation’s history.

Clearly, Politico’s reaction to Governor Palin’s speech is the typical angry lefty reaction to a woman they hate. They took a snippet of Gov. Palin's speech and used it to attack her. The problem is that it is a lie.

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Another theme of changes was the Governor’s reference to setting God off to the side in our lives. It really wasn’t about the actual coin itself. Of course, the angry liberals chose this as one theme to take out of context.

The primary theme of the evening was the change taking place in America’s way of thinking about abortion rights. America has changed. This change theme was mentioned by all three speakers during the evening: Barb Lyons, Charlie Sykes and Governor Palin.

Obviously, it is the anger and the hatred by the lefties (media) against Governor Palin that is on full display. They completely missed the theme of the entire evening. Yes, change was the theme of the evening. But it wasn’t Obama's “change”. It was about real change, not just a campaign slogan. Change that you can actually see taking place, not the faux kind of change promised, but not delivered, during a campaign.

In an 1855 sermon, English clergyman Charles H. Spurgeon preached:

"If you want truth to go around the world, you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go around the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.'"

Spurgeon's point is proven by a number of leftist bloggers and "mainstream" media hacks, who have seized on Palin's remarks and fashioned them into their own narrative. TIME's Mark Halpren didn't even bother to excuse his part in the lie, as Martin did by saying what he presumed Sarah Palin implied. No, Halpren took the "matter of fact" approach:

"She went after President Obama, mocking his signature phrase 'Change we can believe in' and suggesting he had authorized moving the words 'In God we trust' from the face of a new $1 coin to its edge."

Journalism is dead. All the journalists have been replaced by Obama PR hacks.

- JP