BuzzFlash: Texas Size Lies and Ideologues

[unhappycamper]

Texas Size Lies and Ideologues
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Wayne Scallon
May 31, 2005

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It's hard these days to get very excited when George Bush or his minions tell another lie. They've lied to the American people and to the world at an astonishing rate. The lies are calculated, hateful, sometimes deadly and legion. Place them end-to-end and they could reach from the Oval Office in Washington to the bluebonnets of Crawford, Texas; -- and then there would still be plenty left over to reach the sun-drenched poppy fields of Afghanistan or the burning streets of Baghdad. His is a veritable factory of lies.

In their zeal for the ever-greater fib, they are taking the "Big Lie" concept to a whole other level. Not simply happy with telling the same lie so often that those listening eventually accept it as fact; they appear to have signed on to the vile theory that if you lie all the time, the lies will metastasize, multiply, and spread, like a cancer eating at the truth, engulfing and consuming all reason until the lies become a new reality out of sheer force of gravity. In Bushworld, lies are the new truth.

I am by no means the first to write of the mendacity of the Bush administration. Al Franken has done it with more humor and David Corn in far greater detail. The Bush proclivity for perfidy is well documented in print, film and on countless websites.

When the President tells us we aren’t torturing detainees or we aren’t sending them to other countries to be tortured, he’s lying. When the President peddles his social security snake oil, he’s lying. If you hear him talk about how he’s interested in protecting the air you breathe and the water you drink, he’s lying. And that energy plan – a high wattage, untapped gusher of a lie.

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[pansypoo53219]

1. lying is

apparently OK as long as he keeps terrists away.