Truth by Repetition by Calvin Trillin

(Sarah Palin, via speeches, and the press, via news accounts, discuss her position on the "bridge to nowhere.")

I told them thanks, but no thanks, Palin said.

We'd rather pay for it ourselves instead.

But here's a tape on which you clearly say

You're for the bridge. The federals should pay.

I told them thanks, but no thanks, Palin said.

We'd rather pay for it ourselves instead.

You weren't opposed at all until the day

That Congress made that project DOA.

I told them thanks, but no thanks, Palin said.

We'd rather pay for it ourselves instead.

And then you thought it perfectly OK

For you to take the money anyway.

I told them thanks, but no thanks, Palin said.

We'd rather pay for it ourselves instead.

But... oh, skip it.

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