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No doubting that since Tall-Tale-Sarah joined Grandpa Simpson in his quest to dupe the American people into four more years of GOP bullshit, the size of the crowds turning out to see him have swelled.

I always attributed this phenomenon to the old axiom that “you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.”  Turns out there’s another answer afoot: they’re lying!

From Bloomberg:

McCain aide Kimmie Lipscomb told reporters on Sept. 10 that an outdoor rally in Fairfax City, Virginia, drew 23,000 people, attributing the crowd estimate to a fire marshal.

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.

Then there’s the 10,000 people that McCain’s goons claimed turned out at his rally in Pennsylvania. That number they claimed came from the Secret Service. Yeah, ‘cept the Secret Service doesn’t provide that kind of info— to anyone!

“We didn’t provide any numbers to the campaign,” said Malcolm Wiley, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service. Wiley said he would not “confirm or dispute” the numbers the McCain campaign has given to reporters.

Full story here.

She’s at it again. In this piece we review how Sarah lied about going to Iraq to visit “a military outpost inside of Iraq.”

Turns out that is just one of many, many, many lies she’s told since being tapped for the VP slot on the GOP ticket.

Pressed for details on the prom queen’s visit to Iraq, the McCain people have now had to “clarify their comments” (oh, that’s good) and the campaign now states that in fact, Palin “visited an outpost on the other side of the Iraq-Kuwait boarder.”

Which is campaign bullshit for “she never went to Iraq”.

Full story here.

After the jump: a collection of more fake naked pictures of Sarah Palin floating around the interwebs— if you’re into that sort of thing.

However they’re not for kids (and mildly stupid), so think before you click.

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I’m sure you’ve seen the clip in which Grandpa Simpson claims that Sarah Palin “knows more about energy than probably anyone else in America.” (If not, click here.)

Oh yeah? Well, don’t tell these guys:

Secretary of the US Department of Energy Samuel Wright Bodman. In addition to running the Energy Department, Bodman has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.  Homeboy’s also got a ScD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After that he spent six years as a Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He is a former Director of M.I.T.’s School of Engineering Practice and a former member of the M.I.T. Commission on Education. But he’s just a Bush flack.

So how about Ralph J. Cicerone? 

Ralph J. Cicerone is an American atmospheric scientist, a former chancellor of UC Irvine, and currently president of the National Academy of Sciences.Cicerone was recognized on the citation for the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Cicerone was the 1999 laureate for the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. TheAmerican Geophysical Union awarded him its 2002 Roger Revelle Medal, and the World Cultural Council honored him with the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2004.

Cicerone graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in electrical engineering, and obtained masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois. He joined the University of Michigan as a research scientist, later holding faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering. In 1978 he moved to theScripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as a research chemist. He was appointed senior scientist and director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado in 1980. He held this position until 1989 when he joined the University of California, Irvine as Professor of Earth System Science and chaired the department of Earth System Science from 1989-94, when he became Dean of Physical Sciences. In 1998 he became Chancellor of UC Irvine and served in that position until 2005, when he left to head the National Academy of Sciences. Cicerone currently holds the titles Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Earth System Science.

How ’bout John Holdren?

John P. Holdren is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He earned a bachelor’s degree from MIT in 1965 and a PhD from Stanford in 1970. His work has focused on global environmental change, energy technologies and policies, nuclear proliferation, and science and technology policy. Dr. Holdren currently (2007) serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is director of the prestigious Woods Hole Research Center.
Some of his major achievements and awards include: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, National Academy of Engineering Member, National Academy of Sciences MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, 1981 Member of President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), 1994-2001 Chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1993-2004 Volvo Environment Prize of 1993 (with Paul Ehrlich) Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture on behalf of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, December 1995 Chair of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1987-1997 Kaul Foundation Award in Science and Environmental Policy, 1999 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 2000 Heinz Prize in Public Policy, 2001 President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006
Dr. Holdren is the author of some 300 articles and papers, and he has co-authored and co-edited some 20 books and book-length reports, such as Energy (1971), Human Ecology (1973), Ecoscience (1977), Energy in Transition (1980), Earth and the Human Future (1986), Strategic Defences and the Future of the Arms Race (1987), Building Global Security Through Cooperation (1990), Conversion of Military R&D (1998), and Ending the Energy Stalemate (2004).

And just so we’re not accused of being sexist by the McCain people, here’s Kelly Sims Gallagher:

Kelly Sims Gallagher is Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Adjunct Lecturer in the Kennedy School of Government. She is an international member of the Task Force on Innovation for the China Council International Cooperation on Environment and Development. She recently published the MIT Press book, China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development. Formerly, she was the Science Policy Director of Ozone Action in Washington, D.C.

She participated in more than a dozen rounds of international negotiations on global climate change and ozone depletion, and was an advisor to CNN in Kyoto and Buenos Aires for the climate negotiations. She was previously a Truman Scholar in the Office of Vice President Gore and worked in strategic planning at the international engineering and construction firm, Fluor Daniel.

She has an Artium Baccalaureatus in international affairs and environmental studies from Occidental College and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy and Doctor of Philosophy in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

In fact you can find a complete list of the heavy-duty dudes who were speakers at the this year’s National Academy for the Sciences’ “America’s Energy Future” conference, along with their bios, here. Curiously Sarah Palin’s name does not appear on the list of speakers. 

After six years of study, Sarah Palin finally achieved her B.A. in journalism in 1987 from the University of Idaho. There are no records of any honors she achieved.

Check out this clip in which McCain tells some real whoppers. Among them:

• Sarah Palin will be doing numerous interviews in the coming days.
  
• Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone in America.

Uh-huh.