Sep 06 2008
Sarah gets an airplane
Remember that fairy tale about Sarah Palin selling her predecessor’s airplane on eBay? (It’s a lie, by the way.)
Will she sell this one on eBay?
Tucson-based company delivers campaign jet to Palin
Will she sell this one on eBay?
Tucson-based Global Aircraft Solutions Inc. on Thursday delivered Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s new campaign plane, an Embraer 190 regional jet complete with the Republican ticket’s campaign logo on the fuselage.
Palin, presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s running mate, told delegates at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday that she put her predecessor’s plane on eBay. Former Gov. Frank Murkowski, a Republican, had been criticized for buying a jet to travel around the state.
Palin’s new plane seats about 100 people and was reconfigured with bigger first-class seats, dividers and an area for the press, Global Aircraft President John Sawyer said. The company also repainted the jet.
New York-based JetBlue Airways will operate the plane.
Oh, the hypocrisy!
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves, don’t they?
P.S. Hey wingers… there does not appear to be an American flag on the tail. What’s up with that?
And where is the McCain campaign coming up with all this money? (Rhetorical question.)
This airplane and Johnny’s cannot come cheap.
P.P.S. In the event that you have not, be sure to read “Team McCain and the Trooper.”
4 Responses to “Sarah gets an airplane”
No American flag on the plane? I demand Fox news cover this lack of patrotism for 72362309 news cycles!
She only sold the plane as that was her entire campaign speech anyway. And her little eBay comments get on my nerves.
Don’t look now, but speaking of angry and disillusioned…
Your article actually establishes that she was telling the truth.
Your article, of course, goes on to say that her statement implies that it was sold on ebay. Which it, of course, doesn’t. For proof of this claim, go to ebay right now, and see how many things have been put on ebay and have not yet been sold. Would those people be lying if they said they “put it on ebay”?
Now I’m going to submit this comment. Before I do, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am in now way meaning to assume what the blog owner will do with said comment. Nor am I attempting to imply that he will respond, or in any other way recognize this comment. It is assumed, however not guaranteed, that he will approve this comment and not delete it from the blog. And by saying I will submit this comment, I am meaning strictly that I have typed the comment and will hit the submit button. In the event of an error of some type that prevents my comment from being entered into the database, I will still consider it submitted, being as I have done all that I can do on my end.
Is that clear enough?
@Steve : You need to watch this video. It’s right there on tape. John McCain says “she sold the plane on eBay.” She didn’t. He lied. (And you certainly cannot argue that Mrs. Palin implied that she sold the plane on eBay, can you?) (Watch this also.)
Besides, did I say anywhere in my post that Sarah Palin herself claimed that she sold the airplane on eBay? I don’t think so. I may have implied it, but I certainly did not say it.
As for your “Now I’m going to submit this comment” paragraph… Huh? I do not moderate comments on this blog (except in extreme cases, as laid out in the conditions stated below the comment section). I do not always promise to reply to comments, though I think I have replied to most, if not all, of yours. Is there some kind of misunderstanding here of which I am not aware? (Other than, of course, the obvious.)
That is just plain silly.
As for angry and disillusioned. I would maintain that it is yourself, sir, who is disillusioned. And angry? If you’re not angry, you haven’t been paying attention for the past seven years and nearly eight months. Is that clear enough?
Thanks for dropping by. Always a pleasure! Have a good night.
Well, she certainly did not imply that she sold it on ebay. The funny thing about this is, last weekend I asked my brother in law (who got a new pickup) what he did with the old one (it was junk, pretty much good for parts only). When he told me he put it on ebay, the first thin I asked was “any takers”?
And of course what I said at the end was silly. It’s pointing out the absurdity of this plane nonsense. Did McCain say she sold it on ebay? Yes. The pact is, she put it on ebay, it sold elsewhere later. The fact that you and other liberals are nitpicking over this shows that you really have nothing substantive on these people. You post Obama’s relevant lies and applaud him saying he sounds Presidential telling them, then call McCain a liar because he is misinformed about the particular place where a plane was sold.
I’m not complaining, understand. Keep up the good work. Our side appreciates it.