(by Alan Clifton)
The Queen of Idiocracy sets a new low:

Recently, Palin posted on her Facebook:

As unbelievable as it sounds, your tax dollars are funding the federal government’s Zombie Apocalypse Plan. I kid you not. (Google it; it really is the strangest thing. It’s not like government isn’t trillions in debt and wasting billions of your dollars everyday…but I digress.)

Well, perhaps it sounds unbelievable - because it is.

Apparently so many people bought into this nonsense from Palin that Politifact had to do a fact check on her post. And, of course, they rated this ridiculous post as “False.”

What really happened was in 2011 the Center for Disease Control decided to “spice up” their annual message about preparing for real disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and other disasters by playing up on the “zombie apocalypse” joke that was fairly big.

More: Sarah Palin Embarrasses Herself by Ranting About the ‘Government’s Zombie Apocalypse Plan’

Alan emphasizes how stupid this is, but it may be more important to consider how utterly dishonest it is. Palin is willfully misrepresenting an obvious joke in the belief that her audience is either too stupid to know the truth or (more likely) that they are fully aware of the falsehood and accept it anyway as a useful smokescreen for their real beliefs.

CDC Zombie Apocalypse page This has expanded quite a bit since the original 2011 blog post. The post is so popular and well documented that it has its own wikipedia page: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
Palin can scarcely claim the facts are not available, not that she and her audience of smirking bigots would give a damn.