I'm getting a particular kick out of the now-debunked and always-stupid assertion from the McCain camp that Palin was subjected to an FBI background check as part of the vetting process:

Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager and the person at the point of the vice presidential process, said there was no abrupt change of course in the final hours. Nor, he said, was Palin selected without having gone through the full vetting process that was done for other finalists. That process included reviews of financial and other personal data, an FBI background check and considerable discussion among the handful of McCain advisers involved in the deliberations.

Of course, like so much else about both McCain and Palin, that turned out to be just so much hooey, according to Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic, whose blog post on the subject I reprint here in its entirety, because it so bluntly lays this nonsense bare:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not participate in the vetting of Gov. Sarah Palin and did not conduct a background check as part of the process, an