[Democratic-Republican]

After all the years I've spent dealing with the aftermath of NYSlime "stories", I'd very definitely say "Something is very suspicious".

...such as the possibility/damn near certainty that, if the Slime couldn't pull up that quote out of context or by cut-and-paste, they'd just make it up.

Oh I fully agree with you about that. They're my hometown paper and I respect them so little that I made this graphic for use in threads that reference them ...

... ( Also I made one for the WSJ, another WSJ+Photo and also one for the WaPo. Any FRiends who want to may please feel free to use them at will ).

But having said that, I can't imagine how they could have manufactured that quote from LePage without expecting a sharp rebuke from him and having to make a rare, embarrassing retraction.

I'm genuinely curious about this Governor now, since that quote is less than four weeks ago!

[Democratic-Republican]

oops ...

I'm genuinely curious about this Governor now, since that quote is less than four two weeks ago!

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Point taken.

...except that, with literally TRILLIONs of dollars at stake, a little thing like lying and maybe having to stick a retraction back in the peep show ads wouldn’t bother those bums a bit.

(And by the way of full disclosure, I only mistrust politicians/lawyers a micron or so less than I do what I usually describe as their pimps in the MSM. Sooooo, if LePage *is* lying, there’s at least a 50-50 shot that he was doing it to Rove ‘n the Boyz whereas if he’s lying now, Trump will just stand him over in the corner with instructions to repeat only that line and absolutely nothing more every time he’s asked until the election’s over and he gets his butt kicked overboard at cruising altitude.)