I’ve been thinking in recent weeks about how former President Clinton developed a reputation as a liar. And how President Bush has taken lying to a whole new level, and yet maintains a reputation as an honest, “straight-shooter.” (There’s likely a puritanical ethic mixed up in there somewhere.)
The Bush White House is clever at lying, but a bigger problem seems to be two-fold. First, for the most part, the press in this country plays the role of lap-dog. Second, the American people apparently really, really want to believe that Bush is an honest, decent President, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Whether or not the President will be able to continue tossing out outrageous whoppers is not clear. Despite what the President says, things are not getting any better either in this country or in those parts of the world the U.S. now occupies.
To help catalog the divide between reality and Bush-speak, the folks at MoveOn.org have started Misleader.org: A daily chronicle of Bush Administration distortion.
Misleader.org will provide an accurate daily chronicle for journalists of mis-representations, distortions and downright misleading statements by President Bush and the Bush Administration.
The site just started, so it’s a little light on content now. I figure they could build a pretty impressive archive section if they set their minds to it.
We all know what a liar and evil person this junta president is but what is being done about all the results of the lying and deceiving except talk, talk , talk, write, write ,write! Clinton awas hounded for 8 years and was finally IMPEACHED for what ? blow jobs? This president should be in jail by now for what he!s done and is still doingWhen is justice going to be done. If a democratic president was doing what this junta president is doing he would have been impeached long ago!