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January 8th, 2010
Once, you can say it was a mistake, a misstatement, a slip of the lip, it didn’t come out as I intended. It happens to everybody, now and again. Twice, maybe. But three times makes it a lie. A bold faced, up front, in your face lie.
Now, admittedly, these 3 statements came from 3 different people but they are all of the same political party, the statements came in rapid-fire succession and all three were on TV at the time the lie was spoken, so its logical to assume that the the lie was coordinated, that they were speaking with one voice.
Also, the lie is so bizarre, so totally disconnected from the truth, and so huge that I doubt if Dana Perino could have thought it up all by her lonesome.
Here’s the situation: Dana Perino, who was W’s press secretary, Mary Matalin, veteran Republican strategist and half of the world’s weirdest marriage, and Rudy Giuliani, who based his entire presidential campaign on the fact that he was mayor of New York City on September 11th, 2001, have all said recently that THERE WERE NO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION.
Perino was the first. While being interviewed on Sean Hannity’s program on Fox News on November 24th she said “We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.” Hannity did not correct her.
Next was Matalin, on December 28th. While being interviewed by CNN’s John King she said “We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation’s history.” John King did not challenge her, even though the recession claim was a lie as well.
Giuliani was being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, who was to Clinton what Perino was to Bush and is currently aiming for the title of “Worst Journalist Ever,” when he said “We had no domestic attacks under Bush.” Stephanopoulos did not correct him, or challenge him. He did, later, on his blog, say the Giuliani “seemed to have forgotten” the events of 9/11. Still, he accepted the lie in public and apologized to the public privately. There are very few people in this world who I respect less than George Stephanopoulos.
I used to wonder how low the right wing could go before people would realize what liars and hypocrites they are. Now I suspect, unfortunately, that there is no bottom. Their dishonesty is infinite.
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