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Liar liar pants on fire

September 18, 2003 at 5:20 pm | In yulelogStories | 2 Comments

It’s a trend, thank heavens. See this AlterNet article by David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation, on the subject of his new book, The lies of George W. Bush; Mastering the Politics of Deception. Included are nifty links to Corn’s site,and a list of the top ten lies; as well as to MoveOn.org’s own site about Bush lies, www.misleader.org; and George Soros’s site, www.wedeservethetruth.com. Despite all this patent dishonesty on the part of the Bush Administration, you still hear “folks” saying stupid things such as, “George Bush is the most honest president I’ve ever seen.” (This in an NPR report last week sometime….)

I like the “customers who bought this book also bought” list that pops up when you click on the Amazon link for Corn’s book:
Al Franken of course, with Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right; followed by Joe Conason’s Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth. Next up: Molly Ivins’s Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America; Paul Krugman’s The Great Unravelling: Losing Our Way in the New Century; and finally Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News.

It’s a trend. Hope it has significant consequences. Seat getting hot yet, W.?