The Occasional Observer

I'll be honest with you...

Fox prime time lineup is not entertaining viewing for me.

O'Reilly is tough to watch.

Hannity is pre-prepped talking points, not dialogue.

Greta van Susteren is...
nothing I want to watch.

That said, after Campbell Brown's week-long assault on Sarah Palin, I simply can't watch the Clinton News Network anymore.

Tonight, I flipped by it quickly to hear Campbell ripping on Palin's claim to have sold the governor's jet on Ebay. Turns out, Brown says, Palin failed to sell it on Ebay. She had to go through a private broker, and sold it for $2.1 Mil when the state had purchased it for $2.6 Mil. Campbell emphasized that Palin had sold the jet for a loss. The unsaid corrollay was: at the taxpayer's expense.

Of course, Campbell forgot to mention that the jet was sunk cost, and by selling it, Palin was merely recouping for the taxpayer some of what had been wasted by the corrupt politicans she had displaced.

Campbell, I'm sure, sells all her used vehicles for a premium to their original sales price. But, if not, at least she still has her outrage.

UPDATE:

As SHK pointed out in the comments, Palin didn't claim to have sold the jet on EBay in her RNC speech. She only claimed to have listed it on EBay. Somehow, I'm not that surprised noone was willing to fork over $2Mil+ for purchase on EBay, but it certainly was worth a shot. And, as we now know, she did manage to get the job done through other means. Here's the quote in question, from RCP:

While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for.

That luxury jet was over the top. I put it on eBay.