Kevin Drum notes that Sarah Palin repeated the misleading claim that she opposed the so-called Bridge to Nowhere in her speech last night:

Palin repeated her lie from Friday about standing up against the Bridge to Nowhere. There have been days and days of coverage thoroughly debunking this, showing beyond doubt that she was an enthusiastic supporter of the bridge and an enthusiastic supporter of the earmark, giving up only after the earmark was rescinded and Alaska was given the same amount of money to spend on other projects. She didn’t turn down a thing. And yet she repeated the lie because she knows perfectly well that 30 million people will see the speech and only a couple million will read the fact check tomorrow. That’s some straight talk for you.

This shouldn’t be suprising — McCain’s campaign has been repeating debunked claims about policy for months. The problem is that the Bush administration has broken down any remaining stigma against this practice over the last eight years. All the President’s Spin contains numerous examples of talking points that Bush and other administration officials repeated endlessly long after they had been shown to be misleading. We predicted at the time (2004) that future administrations would adopt similar practices if the media and the public did not push back. Unfortunately, it looks like we were right.