"Almost Everything He (Bush) Said Was An Outright LIE" Frank Rich

[kpete]

Call Bush a liar when he lies
by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/08/2007 10:19:00 AM ET
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Bush doesn't think anyone in the media will actually call him a liar even when he lies.

Thank you, Frank Rich:

As if to confirm we’re in the last throes, President Bush threw any remaining caution to the winds during his news conference in the Rose Garden that same morning. Almost everything he said was patently misleading or an outright lie, a sure sign of a leader so entombed in his bunker (he couldn’t even emerge for the Washington Nationals’ ceremonial first pitch last week) that he feels he has nothing left to lose.

Incredibly, he chided his adversaries on the Hill for going on vacation just as he was heading off for his own vacation in Crawford. Then he attacked Congress for taking 57 days to “pass emergency funds for our troops” even though the previous, Republican-led Congress took 119 days on the same bill in 2006. He ridiculed the House bill for “pork and other spending that has nothing to do with the war,” though last year’s war-spending bill was also larded with unrelated pork, from Congressional efforts to add agricultural subsidies to the president’s own request for money for bird-flu preparation.

Mr. Bush’s claim that military equipment would be shortchanged if he couldn’t sign a spending bill by mid-April was contradicted by not one but two government agencies. A Government Accountability Office report faulted poor Pentagon planning for endemic existing equipment shortages in the National Guard. The Congressional Research Service found that the Pentagon could pay for the war until well into July. Since by that point we’ll already be on the threshold of our own commanders’ late-summer deadline for judging the surge, what’s the crisis?

The president then ratcheted up his habitual exploitation of the suffering of the troops and their families — a button he had pushed five days earlier when making his six-weeks-tardy visit to pose for photos at scandal-ridden Walter Reed. “Congress’s failure to fund our troops on the front lines will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines,” he said. “And others could see their loved ones headed back to the war sooner than they need to.”

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/call-bush-liar-when-he-lies.html

[dogday]

1. He is a liar, he lies more than he tells the truth...

Now let's prove those lies and impeach this guy before he gets us into another lie of a war....

[sellitman]

2. Rich rocks.

Kicked and voted. #1

[wicket]

3. Bush is an utter and complete pig fucking son of a bitch

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[bearfan454]

4. yep nt

[MLFerrell]

5. Uh-huh.

Boy Howdy, ain't he just?

[wicket]

7. I can not wait until he's out of office

It's at the point where I'd take the reincarnation of Nixon over him! :grr:

[madokie]

12. That he is

what you say

[wicket]

19. And that's putting it lightly!

;)

[orleans]

13. next time, wicket, don't hold back--just tell us how you really feel

(smile)

p.s. i agree and would like to add the following:
bush is also a fucking asshole dumb fuck lying piece of shit!

[wicket]

14. LOL

:D :rofl:

[frogcycle]

24. don't you wish ther were worse thinks to call him? n/t

[gratuitous]

6. Okay, media bulldogs, there it is

Anyone else going to run with this ball? Bush is lying. He's playing politics and using the troops' lives as pawns for his own ends. He's hurting national security and making us more vulnerable to terrorist attack. I remember when all those unfounded allegations out of the GOP camp used to send you into an absolute tizzy, harrumphing and putting on your best fake outrage.

Anyone going to call the president on actually doing what he and his crooked cabal have been accusing everyone else of doing?

Anyone?

[SpiralHawk]

10. Worth e-mailing around and about

so that patriotic Americans everywhere know that Bush has been called out as a liar.

And, as usual, Bush has gone AWOL.

This time he is hiding out back at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford.

[Danascot]

18. Here's a link to the entire column

Well worth reading. Frank Rich has been one of the few people in the MSM with any cojones.

http://wealthyfrenchman.blogspot.com/2007/04/sunday-in-market-with-mccain.html

[grannylib]

8. PELOSI IN '07! This unelected, unqualified, lying IMBECILE and his puppet

masters and his minions must ALL GO. TO PRISON. FOR LIFE.

[MsLeopard]

26. Great Bumpersticker Idea

PELOSI '07 - it's subtle, but thinking people will get it. More and more people are beginning to realize we need to get rid of these bastards - Pelosi '07 is a great idea!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

9. Hypocrites, liars and death merchants -- all squandering

the fiscal, physical and emotional well-being of this country and its people. Fuck You Bush!

[Morgana LaFey]

11. K&R -- so refreshing to hear the word LIE

So very, very refreshing.

[Fiendish Thingy]

15. This reminds me of the movie "Downfall" about Hitler's last days in the bunker

perhaps not quite as violent, but the dangerous delusions, blind loyalty by some, cynicism by many, and fatalism by most is what I imagine is going on in the White House now.
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend "Downfall" - it's a great film

[Disturbed]

16. Most of the US Corp. Media do not challenge the lies

of Busholini and his Fascist Criminal Junta.

[Cha]

17. The Soldiers won't be going on

a vacation anytime soon if they make it back at all.

bush is a gawd damn liar. I feel like telling a bush bot that bush is a liar, and asking, "are you?"

Thanks Frank Rich for calling out bush on his constant(as in never telling the truth)LYING.

I'm going to see Al Gore(your favorite Dem) April 26th..who should have been Prez.

[checks-n-balances]

23. And your avator shows the man who should be our VP right now! n/t

[Cha]

30. I don't know about my "avatar"

being the VP..it's Ned Lamont who should be the Senator from Connecticut but we got the fascist warmongering, liar lieberman instead.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. george lies, there's a shocker!

:rofl: And george lies to benefit himself, both politically and financially, another shocker! :rofl:

[babylonsister]

21. Why can't our elected reps acknowledge this and do something about

it? We've all known this for years; it's getting really, really old.

[NastyDiaper]

22. Sunday Morning: 1) Brew Dark Coffee

2) Get NY Times from my driveway.
3) Rip open the paper like it was gift-wrap, scanning for an amazingly bad graphic, next to the most insightful column in America.

*Coffee is Honduran shade.

[tom_paine]

25. He lies like Stalin and Hitler. It's just that simple.

100% similarities in the realm of lying, intense propaganda used to shield lies, and the most odious uses of the BIG LIE (i.e black is white, up is down, etc.).

In other areas, yes there are odfferences, but in the realm of lying...NONE!

[Supersedeas]

27. What?!? Someone in the media fact-checking, doing actual journalism--WOW.

[Imagevision]

28. Bush doesn't lie, he "misspeaks" - and we have to tolerate this bullsh*t!!

[CatWoman]

29. here's a link to the entire article

http://donkeyod.wordpress.com/2007/04/07/sunday-in-the-market-with-mccain/

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

31. Seems like a repeated lie becomes truth quicker than truth is truth.

I know. Makes no sense, whatsoever.