Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post didn’t hear what she wanted to hear from Sarah Palin yesterday at the deployment ceremony for Palin’s son, so she just made something up. Here’s how her story began:
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 — Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.”
The idea that Iraq shared responsibility with al-Qaeda for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, once promoted by Bush administration officials, has since been rejected even by the president himself. On any other day, Palin’s statement would almost certainly have drawn a sharp rebuke from Democrats, but both parties had declared a halt to partisan activities to mark Thursday’s anniversary.
Palin did nothing of the kind, as several online commentators have pointed out. Here’s Bill Kristol: (more…)