<?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 XXXVII: Limbaugh, Emanuel and &#8220;Retards&#8221;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Sargent <a href="http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/sarah-palins-increasingly-casual-falsehoods/">examines</a> Palin&#39;s blatant lie with regard to Limbaugh and Rahm using the word &quot;retard&quot;. She claims on Fox News that Limbaugh never used the term in reference to a group of people. He did:</p><blockquote><p>Palin’s latest falsehood is almost laughably easy to debunk, yet she went ahead with it anyway. The point is that if you never subject yourself to any kind of media cross-examination, it gets easier and easier to lie, because there’s simply no downside, or any disincentive of any kind, to lying as much as you want to.</p> </blockquote> <p>And why has no one asked her if it&#39;s true that she calls Trig her &quot;retarded baby&quot; in private? We have an eye-witness account - the father of her grandson. But noooo - exposing her for the total fraud she is is something no one in Washington ever wants to do. </p> <p>And this is the point: the press is complicit in all this (although I have to say that Chris Wallace was pretty fair). </p>]]></html></oembed>