[Credit where it is due, ScientistSteve diaried about this incident this morning.]
Oh boy, my first breaking diary and it's for something that never even happened.
The Mail Online is reporting that:
Sarah Palin has committed yet another political blunder after claiming she had held talks with a British ambassador - talks that never actually took place.
In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight's make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials - including Britain's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald.
It seems that Sir Nigel was suppose to have been at a US Govenors meeting last July, but had to pull out at the last minute. He did not attend the meeting!
And yet, today Sarah's aids claimed she not only attended the meeting with him but actually met Sir Nigel and claimed it as foreign policy experience.
Incredible, they are just making this stuff up and hoping no one calls them on it.
But it didn't work out in this case.
However the meeting never occurred. Officials at the embassy swiftly contacted the McCain-Palin campaign to inform them of the discrepancy.
A British Embassy spokesman said the error arose after Sir Nigel's name was listed among those who had attended a US Governor's meeting in July.
They are that desperate. They just found an ambassador's name on a guest list and claimed it because, if he had attended, Palin would have been in the same room as him. I bet she even could have seen him from her table.
It's like me claiming to have met the cast of Friends because I once had lunch in the same restruant as them. Actually, I have a better case because the cast of Friends actually was in the room.
I can't wait for tonight.
Snarkalicous! My first time on the rec list.
I am so smart.
I am so smart.
S-M-R-T.
I mean S-M-A-R-R-T!