Alaska’s Senate Judiciary Committee votes to approve subpoena for Todd Palin.

McCain state campaign co-chair files suit to begin vote purge in Wisconsin.

As you know, Sarah Palin’s been caught straight-up lying about deep-sixing the Bridge to Nowhere. And here’s the transcript of her trying to explain the fib to Charlie Gibson …

GIBSON: You have said continually, since he chose you as his vice-presidential nominee, that I said to Congress, thanks but not thanks. If we’re going to build that bridge, we’ll build it ourselves.

PALIN: Right.

GIBSON: But it’s now pretty clearly documented. You supported that bridge before you opposed it. You were wearing a t-shirt in the 2006 campaign, showed your support for the bridge to nowhere.

PALIN: I was wearing a t-shirt with the zip code of the community that was asking for that bridge. Not all the people in that community even were asking for a $400 million or $300 million bridge.

GIBSON: But you turned against it after Congress had basically pulled the plug on it; after it became apparent that the state was going to have to pay for it, not the Congress; and after it became a national embarrassment to the state of Alaska. So do you want to revise and extend your remarks.

PALIN: It has always been an embarrassment that abuse of the ear form — earmark process has been accepted in Congress. And that’s what John McCain has fought. And that’s what I joined him in fighting. It’s been an embarrassment, not just Alaska’s projects. But McCain gives example after example after example. I mean, every state has their embarrassment.

GIBSON: But you were for it before you were against it. You were solidly for it for quite some period of time…

PALIN: I was…

GIBSON: … until Congress pulled the plug.

PALIN: I was for infrastructure being built in the state. And it’s not inappropriate for a mayor or for a governor to request and to work with their Congress and their congressmen, their congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget along with every other state a share of the federal budget for infrastructure.

GIBSON: Right.

PALIN: What I supported was the link between a community and its airport. And we have found that link now.

We’re at a key moment — where we learn if there is any consequence in this election for serial lying. It’s a question that only the major media outlets will be able to answer.

Late Update: Here’s the video:

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Sarah Palin ducks and weaves as she’s caught out on the Bridge to Nowhere lie …

TPM Reader MM adds some thoughts …

She introduced herself to the world stage by delivering a speech that she knew was a lie.

What kind of a person does that?

What does that say about her moral character?

How can the American people believe anything she says from here?

That was what she presented as evidence A#1 of her stature as a reformer!

I mean…

WTF?

I mean, she’s as bad as McCain …

I haven’t yet seen the entire interview or interviews. So I’ll reserve final judgment. But as you know I was very skeptical and fairly hard on Charlie Gibson in advance of his interview with Sarah Palin. I still think this was a terrible way to interview a person trying to be one heart beat away from the presidency (more like a celebrity interview than a live-to-tape interview on a Sunday morning show). But Gibson was more probing and his questions more substantive than I expected.

You and I may have seen Sarah Palin caught off guard in the Charlie Gibson interview because she’d never heard of the “Bush Doctrine”. But now we learn her seeming ignorance was actually a penetrating insight into the ambiguities of the “Bush Doctrine.”

From the NYT …

Harsh advertisements and negative attacks are a staple of presidential campaigns, but Senator John McCain has drawn an avalanche of criticism this week from Democrats, independent groups and even some Republicans for regularly stretching the truth in attacking Senator Barack Obama’s record and positions.

Todd Gitlin has more on Charlie Gibson’s visit with Sarah Palin in Alaska.