"Exactly How Much More of this Lying Administration Can We Take?"

[Harper_is_Bush]

From http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=9320

I've been writing about all the lies that members of the current Administration have bee guilty of for many months now, but the most telling episode took place just the other day and I want all America to witness it.

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on “Countdown 5”: “Good evening. There have been many explanations offered for why, in one of the times of the greatest turbulence in American history, there has been comparative apathy in places that have been past venues for public protest. One answer -- that the administration has been outstanding cherry-picking not just intelligence, but also the make-up of the crowds that greet or interact with its key players. Our fifth story in the Countdown, that latter component -- the governmental equivalent of the “cone of silence” from the old TV series ‘Get Smart’ -- this afternoon broke down again for the second time in six days. First, the president’s lambasting by Stephen Colbert at the White House correspondents’ dinner, and now, today’s vivisection of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, with only Rumsfeld’s own words as weapons, at a speech in Atlanta ... full 4-minute exchange with fact checks:

Ray McGovern: Atlanta. September 27, 2002, Donald Rumsfeld said, ‘There’s bulletproof evidence of links between Al Queda and the government of Saddam Hussein.' Was that a lie, Mr. Rumsfeld ... Why did you lie to get us into a war that was not necessary that has caused these kinds of casualties?

Rumsfeld: Well, first of all I haven't lied ... it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there.

McGovern: You said you knew where they were.

Rumsfeld: I did not. I said I knew where suspect sites were, and ...

McGovern: You said you knew where they were. “Near Tikrit, Baghdad, northeast, south, west of there.” Those are your words ...

In fact, those WERE Rumsfeld’s exact words, and in an unusual turn of events, CNN, MSNBC and other major media outlets broadcast the exchange, then went into their vaults and within moments aired the actual March 3, 2003 broadcast with George Stephanopoulos, confirming McGovern’s quote from Rumsfeld.

After the exchange, MSNBC’s Olbermann commented: “In the parlance of sports, Mr. Rumsfeld got faced this afternoon, posterized, forced to deny his own words ... When someone goes out there and blithely denies that they said such and such a thing and this exact thing is on tape ... how can that not result in some kind of political fall-out or even disaster? I mean, charitably it’s dementia, and not charitably it’s lying ... What happened to the portable bubble defense for the administration, we had Stephen Colbert, now there’s Ray McGovern, and the woman with the war crimes banner who was carried out. There were at least 3 other hecklers. What happened to the pre-screening of dissenters, or are they now in a situation where they just don't have enough people who still buy this stuff to fill a hall with them?”

Newsweek’s White House correspondent, Richard Wolfe, replies: Real-life situations puts them there, out there with people who are critical. You can run, but you can't hide.”

To watch the entire MSNBC broadcast, including footage of World Can't Wait and other protesters disrupting Rumsfeld, go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FTmuhynaw

If that doesn't disturb you I really don't know what will. So I would like to ask the question, "Exactly how much more of the lying Administration can the American people stand for?"