Next on 'Oprah' -- Leaders Who Lie

[Marleyb]

Oprah: George, you just go ahead, cry if you want to. I'm not ashamed to tell you that when I watched your speech, I cried too.

George: I really appreciate that, Oprah.

Oprah: But George, I have to be straight with you now. I … I have to say it is difficult for me to talk to you because I also feel really duped. I feel that you betrayed millions of Americans. I mean, uniting, not dividing? "Clear plan for victory" in Iraq? Please! So now, today, I don't know what is true and I don't know what isn't.

George: Oprah, I … I … look, I made some mistakes.

Oprah: George, why did you have to lie?

George: Oprah, the speech wasn't supposed to be read like it was, you know, nonfiction. It's more like a memoir about the state of the union.

Oprah: I feel that you conned us. You embarrassed me. You embarrassed this nation.

George: I'm … I'm a flawed person.

Oprah: How much of what was in the speech was fabricated?

George: Not that much. I mean, all the evils are real. Terrorism, uh, sick people … Democrats…. That hurricane was real…. And the human-animal hybrids. They were in a movie.

Oprah: OK, I want to move on to the NSA surveillance story, because that part of your story is so compelling, in terms of your struggle with these Peeping Tom compulsions you have. Then you get to how you're catching all these terrorists that way and it's all so, you know, legal.

But that's a lie too, isn't it?

George: Oprah, I … I … wrote that part of the speech from memory…. I had legal documents that supported it…. Well, I mean, the lawyers said they doubted the Constitution meant I could do that, um, but that there
was a chance that it did, so I….
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