Big Lies: Who told the worst political untruth of 2005? (NEWSWEEK)

[kpete]

Big Lies
Who told the worst political untruth of 2005? It’s a shame the list of contenders is so long.
ELEANOR CLIFT

Newsweek
Updated: 6:51 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2005
Dec. 22, 2005 - Every holiday season, we on "The McLaughlin Group" hand out news awards. Some categories, like "Biggest Winner," are easy (My choice was Chief Justice John Roberts, with the oil companies as runner-up). Others are a struggle to fill, like who to insult with the “Overrated” award.


In compiling this year’s list, I had the highest number of entries for the category, “Biggest Lie.” I chose the White House declaration that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby had nothing to do with leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent. They were the principal participants in the effort to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson because he had raised doubts about one of the pillars of their argument for war, namely that Iraq had tried to buy yellowcake uranium to make a bomb.

Another favorite—heard all the time from the White House—is that “everybody saw the same intelligence we did.” Members of Congress don’t see the President’s Daily Briefing (one of them was the glossed-over pre-9/11 document that warned “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the U.S.”), and they didn’t see all the qualifying caveats about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, or the doubts about the credibility of the sources the administration was relying on.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue. “We do not torture,” he declared despite ample evidence to the contrary from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Vice President Cheney went to Capitol Hill repeatedly to lobby for the U.S. right to torture, capitulating only when the vote went against him 90 to 9. Sen. John McCain, who was tortured when held prisoner during the Vietnam War, took on Bush’s No. 2 and stood up for democratic principles. It’s a wonder Cheney has any credibility left after assuring the country in May, “the insurgency is in its last throes.”

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[wryter2000]

1. Nice

K&R

[ClintonTyree]

2. I've never heard lying defined this way before......

"Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue". Why the hell can't these people bring themselves to come right out and say, "bush is a liar"? :shrug: Everyone has to dance around the obvious, are they afraid of this dimwitted, pathetic man?
BUSH IS A LIAR! Feel free to spit it right out, media whores! There's no reason to tiptoe around bush anymore.

[leftchick]

5. I agree

truly bizarre and fucked up. :banghead:

[yella_dawg]

3. Who told the biggest lie?

Would have to be Kindasleezy, 'cuz every time she opens her mouth...


I mean, damn!

[DIKB]

4. Nice find.

If only the media were willing to be more honest themselves. I won't be happy till I see the cover of Newsweek with the entire * cabal on the cover and just 2 words "Fucking Liars." An entire issue devoted to the lies and fuckups done by this horrid admin, that would just make my day.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Bush is the Biggest Liar

There Eleanor .. it's that easy to say and even easier to prove.

What is it with the journalists and politicians these days...
they cower at the threat of insulting George Bush and Dick Cheney?
Would someone please speak the plain straight truth for once !!!

Geeeeez. You'd think they were all a bunch of crooks and cowards.

[daleanime]

7. Cowards, maybe...

they just want to keep their jobs and continue picking up a paycheck(and it only cost them their integrity!)

[lpbk2713]

8. Bush didn't know about the extent of damage on the Gulf Coast.

He didn't get the fuggen memo.


Come on. Gimme a break.

[C_U_L8R]

9. dupe

[robbedvoter]

10. My proposal (and it's called a LIE - not "political untruth")

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html
"Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so."

[McCamy Taylor]

11. WTG Newsweek. WH Never should have tried to 60 Minutes that Mag.

[greiner3]

12. They lie;

And the right apes everything they say.