You Can Get Away With This If Your Base Is Made Up Of People Who Don't Read

Warming up the crowd for John McCain in Virginia Beach today, Sarah Palin said:

See, as a senator, John has confronted the corrupt ways of Washington and the wasteful spending and the abuses of power. As president, he's gonna end those once and for all.

Today of all days is an odd one for Palin to claim that McCain-Palin will end "abuses of power" in Washington, since the first line of the findings section of the Troopergate report released on Friday said...

For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

Whoever didn't cut that line from her speech today is either incompetent or very, very brazen. Special thanks to TPM Reader BR for the catch.