There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Many of us know the phrase as the words of Mark Twain, but he may have been quoting Benjamin Disraeli. In any event, I don’t think that our Mr. Clemens distorted, edited or redacted it to make it mean something completely different. The man was honest and a Liberal, after all. On the other hand, we have the Republican National Committee; we have liars without conscience or integrity, but I repeat myself.
There is a fourth kind of lie and for want of a better epithet, I’ll just call it “anything you hear from the RNC” the video clip that now appears on the RNC website has Representative John Murtha saying “We're more dangerous to world peace than North Korea or Iran.”
What he really said at Florida International University last June 24th was “Fifty-six per cent of the people in Spain think it's more dangerous, the United States is more dangerous in Iraq than Iran is. Every one of our allies think that the United States being in Iraq is more dangerous to world stability and world peace, every one of our allies, Great Britain, every single country, they think it's, we're more dangerous to world peace than North Korea or Iran. That says something.”
It does, and it says that the Republicans are liars, their campaigns are based on lies and distortions and fabrications. They prosper by buying witnesses and paying them to lie, by hiring fiction writers to malign opposing candidates and incumbents. It says that the greatest enemy of America; the greatest enemy of truth, justice and the American way is the Republican party. They lie, they steal, they get people killed, they soil the flag and reputation of our country. They steal from the poor and give to the rich like some Robbing hoodlum.
Their campaign of late is all about showing that the people to get us out of our dire predicament are those who fight, who lie, cheat and steal to keep us in it forever, and no egregious calumny, no libel, slander or damned lie is too low, too flimsy, too scurrilous to use for their purpose.
God damn the Republican party and everyone who votes for them.
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It used to be an interesting rivalry between the Democrats and the Republicans, but I agree with you. This past decade-plus in complete power has sunk the Republicans to moral lows unimaginable since Nixon, so I'm virulently and militantly opposed to that party and the fools who follow them with their blindfolds securely fastened.
I could argue that Bush is worse than Nixon, but one way or the other he's more dangerous because he and his party have done more to control and distort perception than any other Administration I know of and of course the country is even more ignorant than it was during the Nixon years.
Goldwater lost big time because of the hint that he might use nuclear weapons. A lot of people now hope Bush will use them.
These people are only half the problem: the other half of the problem is the 50 or so percent of Americans who want to hear this stuff...
These people need enemies (foreign and domestic) to give meaning to their lives.
Pathetic...
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