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Friday, June 06, 2008

Can we please use the word "lie" now?
Posted by Jill | 6:42 AM
Why is the press still reluctant to tell the truth about George W. Bush's run up to war -- that is a bald-faced liar who deliberately lied to the very Americans he's supposed to serve because he wanted to get into a war that he thought would give him a Great Legacy™ and fatten the pockets of himself and his cronies in the bargain?

Now that the report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has come out, this is no longer the exclusive province of bloggers and "kooks." It is absolute truth, that this president betrayed the trust of the American people in a way no other president has done in my lifetime -- not even Nixon. And yet, as he plays out the string of his ghastly, destructive, miserable presidency, the press still won't call him a liar.

Today's headlines:

"Inflated." "Misused." "Overstated." "Exaggerated." Even the report refuses to use "The L Word":
“Representing to the American people that the two had an operational partnership and posed a single, indistinguishable threat was fundamentally misleading and led the nation to war on false premises,”

Richard Clarke weighed in on Countdown last night:





Let's not surgarcoat it: This president is a liar. A shameless bold-face liar. And that is to our eternal shame.

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4 Comments:
Blogger Melina said...
and "jail" is replaced with "scold"...you gotta love it...
it must be backwards day!

Anonymous Anonymous said...
You know, I am really, really tired of these stories, and how outraged people are they've been lied to. He was lying, they were all lying, they're still lying. All you had to do was listen and think, and it was as simple as children's faces. And because people - especially reporters - just don't seem to understand what that means about themselves we're about to bomb Iran. I'm completely sick of mocking the naked emperor while teenagers come home with their faces burned off.

I don't even know what to say to people who are still working on the premise that we can win the war except I hope extensive therapy will help with that cognitive dissonance.

Anonymous Anonymous said...
One small change, please?

The Alleged President lying is to his shame, not ours.

Our shame (and doubly so, the shame of professional journalists) is in having let him get away with it, then and up until now.

Blogger Jennifer Briney said...
Damn straight. Love ya, Jill