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Somebody calls your bluff? Double your bet.

“Mrs. Palin also killed the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in her own state. Yes, she once supported the project: But after witnessing the problems created by earmarks for her state and for the nation’s budget, she did what others like me have done: She changed her position and saved taxpayers millions.”

The bet here is when somebody calls you out for an unambiguous lie, you follow a two-pronged strategy: To tickle the fancy of political sophisticates you depend on people like Marc Ambinder to fuzz up the situation with disingenuous musings about how this is sort of not untrue if you look at it a certain way but isn’t sad that “politics” works like this (meaning that everybody is just as guilty as everybody else so in a sense everyone is innocent, so let’s just move on.)

Of course for the eventual benefit of what are so tactfully referred to as “low information voters” you just do what Sen. DeMint does on the op-ed page of the WSJ and repeat the lie at a higher volume. Needless to say the average reader of the WSJ op-ed page probably isn’t fooled, but that’s not really the point. The point is to create a media narrative of the “some say the earth is flat some say it’s round the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle” variety.

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