<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXXIV: Pulling Out Of&nbsp;Michigan]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Here we go again. Yesterday, Sarah Palin <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/17/palin-lies-oprah/">said the following</a> to Oprah Winfrey on the air:</p> <blockquote><p>  WINFREY: Didn’t several times they say to you when actually you mentioned, when you were talking about pulling out of Michigan and you said I wished we’d stayed in Michigan. Weren’t you told then, Sarah just stay on script? </p><p>PALIN: Right, told after wards and that, that was always puzzling to me because if I were to respond to a reporter’s questions very candidly, honestly, for instance, they say, “what do you think about the campaign pulling out of Michigan” and I think, “darn I wish we weren’t. Every vote matters, I can’t wait to get back to Michigan” and then told afterwards that, “oh, you screwed up. You went rogue on us Sarah, you’re not supposed to be.” And my reminder to the campaign was,<em> I didn’t know we pulled out of Michigan.</em> My entire VP team, we didn’t know that we had pulled out. I’m sorry, I apologize, but speaking candidly to a reporter.</p></blockquote><p>This was a lie. And we know it was a lie the way we know that 33 other statements by Palin are lies - <em>because objective reality proves it so.</em> On October 3, as Matt Corley explains, Palin told Carl Cameron that she disagreed with the decision to pull out of Michigan. How can she have disagreed with something that she now says <em>she didn&#39;t know at the time</em>? Here&#39;s the <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/sarah_palin_reads_the_new_york.html">money section</a> of the Cameron interview:</p><blockquote><p>CAMERON: Thanks very much, Governor. I&#39;m going get the hook. I have one quick political question for you that if I don&#39;t ask you, I would be (INAUDIBLE).</p> <p>Yesterday, just before the debate it was announced that the campaign was going to withdraw some of its exercises in Michigan, essentially leave Michigan for Obama to win. What&#39;s going on there?</p> <p>PALIN: Well, that&#39;s not a surprise because the polls are showing we&#39;re not doing as well there, evidently, as we would like to. But, I (INAUDIBLE) up this morning, also. <em>I fired a quick e-mail and said, oh, come on. Do we have to call it there?</em> Todd and I would happy to get to Michigan and walk through those plants where car manufacturers [sic].</p> <p>We&#39;d be so happy to get to speak with the people there in Michigan, who are hurting because the economy is hurting. Whatever we can do and whatever Todd and I can do in realizing what their challenges in that state are, as we can relate to them and connect with them and promise]]></html></oembed>