Bush's Primetime Lies Still Go Unchallenged

[Judi Lynn]

August 12 / 13, 2006

Not the Unguarded Microphone, But the One Guarded by the Mainstream Media
Bush's Primetime Lies Still Go Unchallenged
By Rev. WILLIAM ALBERTS

The far greater offense is not President Bush's words being picked up by an unguarded microphone on July 17th at the G8 summit meeting in St. Petersburg and broadcast throughout the world. The deeper offense is the lack of mainstream media's response to his scripted words spoken directly into a microphone at a news conference in Chicago on July 7th before national and local reporters. Here he did not talk with food in his mouth. Nor utter the s-word: "What they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over." (The Boston Globe, July 18, 2006) Nor did he display his ignorance of how far Russia is from Beijing. Nor try to give an unsuspecting member of the press an inappropriate neck massage. Here the president of the United States repeated again the same lies about Iraq. And the media let him.

When President Bush emphasized the importance of diplomacy in dealing with North Korea, which is developing nuclear weapons and had just test-fired missiles in defiance of the US and its allies, a reporter responded, "Mr. President, a lot of people here in Chicago tell us they see an incongruity in your foreign policy. We're involved in a shooting war in Iraq," he continued, "yet we have a leader in North Korea who has announced his affection for nuclear weapons and no hesitation to use them against the United States." The reporter then asked, "Is your policy consistent between the way you have dealt with Iraq . . . North Korea? And if so, are we headed toward a military action in North Korea?" (Transcript, "President Bush Holds a News Conference in Chicago," CQ Transcripts Wire washingtonpost.com, July 7, 2006)

It is here that President Bush spoke one lie after another right into the microphone: "I have always said that it's important for an American president to exhaust all diplomatic avenues before the use of force. . . . All diplomatic options were exhausted, as far as I was concerned, with Saddam Hussein." (Ibid.)

President Bush's lies were glaring:

And we tried diplomacy. We went to the U.N. Security Council-15-0 vote that said, 'Disarm, disclose or face serious consequences. I happen to believe that when you say something, you better mean it. And so when we signed on to that resolution that said, 'Disclose, disarm or face serious consequences.' I meant what we said.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/alberts08122006.html

[unda cova brutha]

1. * lied and people died

[Loge23]

2. War in Iraq = war on terror : That's a good one!

The biggest lie is increasingly accepted as fact these days: Iraq.
I'd be willing to bet that most Americans accept the Iraq debacle as a legitimate part of the fictional "war on terror".

[godhatesrepublicans]

3. Apparently the MSM is completely filled with unprincipled idiots.

I wish I was surprised.