Lying Liars
George Washington is famous for telling his father “I cannot tell a lie.” Many believed Richard Nixon was forced to resign the Presidency because he lied to us about not being a crook. As Americans, we are proud that we put honesty on a trophy shelf. No so much these days. Lying is no longer a punishable offense.
Last week, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) kicked off the Republican side of the health care summit by saying the proposed health reform bill would cause premiums to rise. President Obama immediately called him out on it. The Congressional Budget Office has since said Alexander was wrong, and many news outlets have fact-checked his claims and found them misleading at best and wrong at worst. Despite being told the truth, Sen. Alexander goes on the Sunday show and repeated his claim four more times.
Four times in one appearance he lied. Forget about being mistaken. No way could the senator believe he was right and everyone else was wrong. He chose to deliberately lie, over and over.
He is not alone. We all know politicians lie. We expect the news media to expose their lies, right?
On Fox News, a “news anchor”–one of those who is supposed to be objective, as opposed to the nightly opinion guys, or so says Fox News itself–repeatedly said that Democrats were going to resort to the “nuclear option, which is now called by a warm and fuzzy term, reconciliation,” to pass a health care reform bill (that has already passed). Of course, he is not lying, any more than the rest of the Fox team who repeated this over and over.
The accurate statement is reconciliation is the correct name for the procedure since it was passed in 1975. It has been used many times by Republicans, many, many more times than Democrats have used it. The “nuclear option” was a term coined to describe the Republicans threat to do away with the filibuster when they were the majority. Reconciliation came before “nuclear option,” not the other way around.
Fox News is again lying. They know better. They also know there is no penalty for lying anymore. John Kerry paid the last known bill for lying, when “he was for it before he was against it.” This is exactly the case of Republicans in Washington who were for reconciliation many times before they were against it. Yet they are getting away with lying about it.
“It’s okay if you are a Republican.” That’s the truth these days. We know Obama is lying every time he moves his lips. Republicans tell us. Fox News tells us. And they wouldn’t lie, now, would they?
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Just a minor slip up I’m sure . The first thing taught in “Politics 101″ is “How To Lie With a Straight Face” !
The second thing taught in politics 101 is “How To Get Re Elected Regardless Of The Peoples Best Interest”
Today we have “Master Grad’s in Politics 101″ in these two areas of political expertise!
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