Lawrence O'Donnell's anti Clinton propoganda last night

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57. strange indeed and strangely familiar

In Game Change, Palin got into a tizzy because she heard rumors about her husband belonging to a secessionist party (AIP) in Alaska. She was furious and demanded Steve Schmit squash the rumor, that it was a lie. Schmidt reminded her it was, in fact, the truth.

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/sarah-palin-game-change_b_1314987.html

Palin Lied About her Husband's Involvement with the Alaska Independence Party. One of the things I sensed in my interviews with Schmidt -- who consistently came off as a bright, sensitive, nuts-and-bolts, down-to-earth guy during our conversations -- is that Palin's penchant for veering from the truth is what ultimately turned him against her.

During the campaign, Palin became irritated with published reports that her husband had been a member of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), the platform of which called for the secession of Alaska from the United States.

She demanded, in an email sent to McCain campaign manager Rick Davis, chief strategist Steve Schmidt and senior advisor Nicolle Wallace, that the campaign "get in front of that ridiculous issue" and release a statement contradicting the charges. Schmidt refused to issue one. He knew that Todd Palin had been an AIP member and that secession was a central AIP platform.

But Palin could not let it go. Her response was thoroughly duplicitous:

That's not part of their platform and he was only a 'member' bc independent alaskans too often check that 'Alaska Independent' box on voter registrations thinking it just means non partisan. He caught his error when changing our address and checked the right box. I still want it fixed.

It was a bold-faced lie. Todd Palin's voter registration forms, provided through a Public Records Act request that I initiated with the State of Alaska Department of Elections, reveal that Todd Palin registered for the AIP on three separate occasions. (PDF) Schmidt was not amused by Palin's duplicity -- and he called her on it. "The statement you are suggesting be released," he wrote, "would be inaccurate." He informed Palin that the campaign would "not put out a statement and inflame [the situation]." Palin was furious.