This is what used to be known as “splitting hairs”:

One of the compelling anecdotes about Sarah Palin is that she auctioned off the Alaska governor’s jet on eBay after taking office — a swift move made by a reformer hoping to clean up the excesses of her predecessor.

But in fact, tadalafil thumb the jet did not sell on eBay. It was sold to a businessman from Valdez named Larry Reynolds, who paid $2.1 million for the jet, shy of the original $2.7 million purchase price, according to contemporaneous news reports, including a story in the New York Times.

Dan Spencer, the director of administrative services for Alaska’s Public Safety Department, said that the Republican speaker of the Alaska House, John L. Harris, brokered the deal.

What happened? It appears that, as promised during her bid for governor in 2006, Palin did try to sell the plane on eBay but that doing so was not as easy as it might have sounded. After putting it up to auction, there was one serious bid, in December 2006, and it fell through. Still, the Westwind II was sold about eight months later, achieving Palin’s goal of ridding the state of a luxury item.

Seriously, what’s the point here?

She DID put the jet on ebay.

She herself has never said she “sold” it on ebay.

And she DID sell it as part of her reformer gig.

WTF is this supposed to prove? That the people around her can get their story wrong?

And even if they’re deliberately lying…WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?!!!

Is the sale LESS genuine because there were no takers on ebay?

Come on. I know you can do better than this. Don’t you have any belly pictures of Bristol to shop around?

6 comments September 7th, 2008


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