New Joke: "How Can You Tell If Bush Is Lying?"

[Hissyspit]

Answer: "He's giving the State of the Union address."

O.K., the real answer is, of course, 'his lips are moving,' but I thought I'd make it topical for today.

Seriously, with regards to the collected works known politely as *'s State of the Union addresses, has there ever been such a consistent and overwhelming collection of

• disingenuousness
• prevarication
• dissembly
• mendacity
• speciousness
• sophistry
• meretriciouness
• perfidiousness
• manipulation
• Machiavellianism
• propagandizing
• sleight-of-hand
• misrepresentation
• fallacy
• delusion
• insincerity
• double-talk
• double-speak
• shallowness
• insubstantiality
• and hollowness

in the history of the delivered SOTU addresses?

Is there any historical instance of the sheer volume of untruth in any past president's addresses? Nixon? Johnson? Hoover? Is he really as unprecedented in this as he seems to be to me? (Rhetorical)

[Che_Nuevara]

1. His 2004 address was pretty high up there (n/t)

[Hissyspit]

3. Was it the 2002 address? NO MENTION OF OSAMA?

Maybe 2003. I remember being flabbergasted and it seemed no one else noticed.

[Triana]

2. If he's talking, he's lying (n/t)

[Peace Patriot]

4. LOL! And the answer is yes, there is no precedent for the amount of

lying. You have to reach across the waters and back in time--to Stalin and Hitler in the modern era, and back to Theodosius I in ancient times (first Holy Roman Emperor--"Christianity" enforced by the sword). (--mind-boggling hypocrisy.)

[mom cat]

5. Your list applies to everything * says, not just SOTA.

[Neil Lisst]

6. The Bush speech tonight

9/11

were attacked

I swore

9/11

pre- 9/11 mindset

terrorist monitoring

Al Qaeda

the dictator

gassed his own people

robust economy

optimistic

less partishunism

Alito

Mrs. Alito

Laura

new jobs

deficit reduction

sounder social security

9/11

katrina

freedom

liberty

faith based

God's gift

girls in Afghanistan

Taliban

9/11

[ncteechur]

7. He is awake.