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In reply to the discussion: Krugman: The Great Degrader [View all]like you know my history for such.
maybe you should ask the author of this top post about my record of taking BHO to task.
We're all liars from time to time, but there's a vast difference between that and being a pathological liar like most modern rightwingers are on issues big and small. Bush imo, put the rightwingnut art of political lying http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/history-politcal-lying on steroids, which the Mutt tried to give an additional dose during the last pres campaign. That puncuates my point regarding the way in the wake of the Bush admin, they all feel, and rightly so, that they can lie liberally and freely without fear of reprisal like never before. Hell, the list of frequently repeated zombie lies they tell that have been debunked to high heaven could take a day or two to complete.
That condition simply didn't exist in whatever form or measure you wanna use prior to the Bush admin. http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/21/504201/poll-republicans-iraq-wmd/
I have no need nor desire to address the lies, real or imagined, of BHO or Krugman here, because that has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case Krugman made about Bush and his lying, and role it has played in making it a modern rightwingnut pol and pundit requirement that is applied to every stinking issue of significance/consequence before us, and often those with none at all, like Saudis on the WH visitor list.
I'd also say that the internet has had a magnification role in this too, given how close positive reinforcement is for us all these days.