Scarborough wets his pants over Blumenthal; forgets Bush, Reagan war lies.

[Phx_Dem]

This is rich. Scarborough is practically purple with rage over Blumental's comments, but as Joe Conason astutely reminds us Bush and St. Ronnie both lied or mistated their service in Vietman and WWII.

Scarborough's hissy fit: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/joe-scarborough-throws-full-blown-feigned

Joe Conason: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/05/20/bushreagan

Take George W. Bush, whose controversial service as a Texas Air National Guard pilot was shrouded in mystery, evidently because he wanted to conceal the basic facts of his privileged admission to the TANG and his strange departure from its ranks. In his 2000 campaign autobiography, ghosted by Karen Hughes, Bush claimed that after completing his training in the F-102 fighter plane, "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years." That simple sentence was entirely untrue, according to records eventually released by the Bush campaign, which showed that he had never flown in uniform again after his suspension from active duty in August 1972 for failing to show up for a mandatory physical examination.
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Yet Bush's self-serving revisions cannot compare with the fantastic recollections of the late Ronald Reagan, whose veneration by Republicans was never diminished by his bizarre utterances. In November 1983, he told Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir during a White House visit that while serving in the U. S. Army film corps, his unit had shot footage of the Nazi concentration camps as they were liberated. He repeated the same tale to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and other witnesses. Reagan had indeed served in the Army and worked on morale-boosting movies for the War Department. But he had done so without ever leaving Hollywood for the entire duration of the war.

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[Oceansaway]

1. dead intern Joe has selective memory...nt

[Phx_Dem]

2. He certainly does. Sadly, for him, we do not. n/t

[Lint Head]

3. He also forgets Mitt Romney said his daddy marched with MLK.

He had to retract the statement because it was total bull shit.

[Raine1967]

4. And to me, that is even more heinous.

Everyone on the right seems to have selective memory -- if they are either defending one of their own, or trying to put down the opposition.