This wasn’t one of the big headlines from yesterday’s talk shows, but it’s fun to catch a lie in action. On CNN’s “State of the Union,” GOP strategist Mary Matalin said this:
We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our
While one might have expected Washington to recover some civility after the mudslinging of the campaign season, the year instead saw the rise of the “just asking” paranoiac style on Fox News, the return of serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey, and the accusation “You lie!” hurled at the More…
Pulled from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: It turns out that carving out the institutional safeguards built into the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as the Democratic-led Congress cravenly acquiesced to in 2007 under pressure from the Bush administration, results in massive abuse in domestic surveillance collection. From The New More…
President George W. Bush, today, Carlisle, Penn., Army War College, magical-thinking tour:
While there’s room for honest and healthy debate about the decisions I’ve made — and there’s plenty of debate — there can be no debate about the results in keeping America safe.
For a man who once considered the press his “base,” and the truth a trusted ally, part of a package of integrity and “Straight Talk,” Arizona Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, finds himself on unfamiliar terrain these days. Now, on the verge of the apex of his More…
An Internet firestorm swiftly engulfed Sen. John McCain on Tuesday, as reporters and bloggers laced into his campaign’s false claim that McCain’s tenure on the Senate Commerce Committee included the creation of the BlackBerry.
While the assertion was newsworthy, since it fits into a pattern of deception by More…
Sen. John McCain’s top economic adviser is busy tracking the financial crisis, but he took time on Tuesday to offer a novel argument for McCain’s grasp of the financial markets. Politico:
Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry
Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee
I appear as a guest on Peter B. Collins‘ radio show — which is fun because it has live callers. It’s like talking to blog commenters, if commenters were more supportive. (Kidding! Sort of.)
Anyway, in a segment on Friday, a caller raised big questions about how Republicans More…
One of the real disadvantages to being based in Sunny Arizona is the three-hour time difference from the East coast — though that will thankfully shorten to two hours when those states that do observe daylight savings “fall back” (most of Arizona does not observe DST). Not only do I More…
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