Big Lies - Who told the worst political untruth of 2005?

[tecelote]

By 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.

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[Botany]

1. Same as 04

That bush won re-election fair and square.

[chelsea0011]

2. Frist and Delay...Schiavo's fine. She just needs some more therapy.

[ananda]

3. BushInc who said re Katrina:

"I'm not racist."

[MrModerate]

4. Lies told in 2005?

That bush didn't lie in 2002-2003 about his reasons for inviding Iraq.