I'm Getting So Sick of This!

The news today is that the Bush Administration has been planting fake news stories on American Television. Another word for fake news is...

And right wing darling Ralph Reed has really had his utter hypocrisy exposed. If there was ever a case study in why I'll never be a Republican, it's this guy. His whole life is a lie!

And if you recall, we were told the press wasn't reporting on the good things happening in the news. Well, I think the people at CBS may have been trying to get to a park full of flowers when their convoy was attacked. How much truth were we getting from the Administration about whether Iraq was in a civil war or how the bad feelings in the US about the war were all the fault of the "liberal" press? More lies.

The team at AmericaBlog put together a list of all of the lies thrown around these last few years. Some are silly but many of them are spot on. I thought I'd go ahead and throw it out there now since I'm on a rant about lies anyway. The list was 184 items long last week. But hey, Clinton lied about the blowjob so I guess we're even...

Mexicans are taking our jobs.
Iraq sent its WMDs to Syria.
Democrats don't want to wiretap terrorists.
Joe Wilson admitted that Valerie Plame wasn't covert.
Karl Rove has a faulty memory.
Scooter Libby has a faulty memory.
Tom DeLay is like Jesus Christ.
No one could have anticipated that the levees would be breached.
We do not torture.
There is no global warming.
There is global warming, but humans didn't cause it.
Howard Dean can't raise money.
John F. Kerry is a flip-flopper.
George W. Bush is a decider.
John McCain is a straight-shooter.
Dick Cheney is a sober shooter.
Nobody at the White House knows Jack Abramoff.
Democrats do.
The economy is great.
Evolution isn't supported by the facts.
Diebold voting machines are secure.
Fox News is fair and balanced.
Mission accomplished.
Bill Clinton did it too.
No one could have anticipated the Iraqi insurgency.
The budget deficit will be cut in half in four years.
Anyone who thinks Dubai shouldn't control our ports is racist.
No one who thinks we should build a wall along the Mexican border is racist.
George Allen isn't a racist... anymore.
Terry Schiavo wants to live.
Andrea Clark wants to die.
We've turned a corner in Iraq.
There's a war on Christmas.
There's a war on Easter.
There's no civil war in Iraq.
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Up is down.
Black is white.
Bush won Florida in 2000. – calebfaux
Bush won Ohio in 2004.
We support open, free, and fair elections ... for the Ukraine.
I earned political capital... and I intend to spend it.
Losing by 2 million votes in 2000 is a mandate.
Winning by 3 million votes in 2004 is a mandate.
Bush won a mandate for his conservative agenda.
The grownups will now be in charge.
The rule of law is important.
This administration will hold itself accountable.
No one could have anticipated Katrina would hit New Orleans.
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
No one could have foreseen the failure of FEMA.
Kathleen Blanco never asked for federal help.
Ray Nagin should have used the buses.
Ellen DeGeneres caused Hurricane Katrina.
Gay couples seek to destroy Marriage.
God plays favorites (just like Dad).
Ignorance is strength.
Man existed alongside the dinoraurs.
Moral values voters.
The earth is 6,000 years old.
We're not interested in banning contraceptives.
America is a Christian nation.
GWB is a Godly man.
Bush flew F-102s in the Texas Air National Guard.
Bush is a compassionate conservative.
Bush is a great guy to have a beer with.
Bush is no longer an alcoholic.
Dubya owns an honest-to-God real ranch.
It's a working vacation. I'm working.
George W. Bush is a genius.
Dubya is a great cyclist.
Stephen Colbert was not funny.
Helen Thomas is old and batty.
Guns don't kill people... pretzels do.
George Bush is a war hero.
...and John Kerry isn't.
John Kerry "outed" Mary Cheney
John Kerry shot himself in the leg to earn his medals
Al Gore thinks he invented the internet.
Ronald Reagan was the best president in history.
Harry Whittington got himself peppered.
Bill Clinton caused 9/11
Bill Clinton was once offered Bin Laden "on a silver platter" and turned it down.
Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11.
9/11 changed everything.
No one could have anticipated airplanes flying into buildings.
No one could have foreseen the effects of nuking Iran (next year's press conference).
War is peace.
We have removed the Taliban from Afghanistan.
The Iraqis will welcome us with open arms and flowers...
It could take six days, six weeks, I doubt six months.
Pat Tillman was killed by enemy fire
Yellow magnetic car ribbons really help the troops.
The insurgency is in its last throes.
But even if Iraq IS in a Civil War, its a good thing.
The only way to get Zarqawi is to invade Iraq.
We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.
When they stand up, we'll stand down.
Iraqi oil will pay for the war and the reconstruction.
Gas prices are high because of librul environmental regulations.
Drilling the ANWR will lower the price of oil.
Gas prices are high because of taxes.
The 'magic of the marketplace' will solve all problems.
Unemployment numbers have never been so low.
Republicans restored the economy after the shambles left by Clinton.
Clinton/Gore recession.
The economy is booming!
As President, Governor Bush will...pay the debt down to a historically low level.
[B]y far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum.
Tax breaks for Hummers is good for the economy.
Tax cuts are super for the middle class.
Tax cuts increase revenue.
The estate tax hurts family farms.
Private Accounts will save Social Security.
Bush will make health insurance affordable for hard-working, low-income families.
Healthy Forests Initiative will help forests.
No Child Left Behind will help all children.
Healthy Skies Initiative will reduce air pollution.
Nobody wants reform more than Republicans.
Republicans are compassionate conservatives.
Republicans are pro-life.
Freedom is slavery.
The government is tapping your phone to protect you.
Dissent is unpatriotic.
Valerie Plame is covert and a traitor.
Karl Rove couldn't have done it because he knew he'd get caught.
Patrick Fitzgerald is going to indict Joe Wilson.
Bush and his twin were funny.
Jeff Gannon is a serious journalist
Rush is Right.
The media is liberal.
No one could have anticipated that Colbert would tell the world the Emperor has no clothes.
Everything is hunky-dory.
You're either with us, or against us.
A vote for John Kerry, is a vote for Al Qaeda.
George Bush doesn't read the polls.
...But he does read all those books.
Everyone had the same intelligence.
Iraq is the central front on the war on terrorism.
All options are on the table.
Republicans are the party of ideas.
Those trucks we found in Iraq were mobile biological weapons labs.
We know where they (the WMD) are.
These are not assertions. These are facts backed up by solid intelligence.
Terri Schiavo is responsive. (Bill Frist on the Senate floor).
I never said she was responsive (Bill Frist, about a week later).
Anyone who leaks information will no longer be part of this administration.
Sex Education causes STDs and increases pregnancy rates.
HPV vaccine will cause teen sex cults.
Harriet would be a great justice. I know her heart.
Terrorists didn't know we could use wiretaps until they read about it in the paper.
...we are in a war that is a different kind of war than we've been in before.
I will restore honor and integrity to the White House.
Nothing is more important in a time of war than cutting taxes.
Democrats hate America.
Vince Foster was murdered.
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike within the U.S."--is a historical document.
Thousands of tactical errors were surely made in the war against Iraq.
And when I said "thousands" of tactical errors, I was speaking figuratively.
America has 'uncontrolled' and 'unprecedented' immigration.
The national anthem should only be sung in English.
Jesus would have voted for Bush.
I'm a uniter, not a divider.
The 'CEO' President.
Whenever we say 'wiretaps' that means we're going to get a court order.
If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
Chris Matthews will not let anything get by him.
George Bush was successful businessman.
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
God hates Fags
Karl told me he didn't do it.
If gays are allowed to marry then heterosexual men will leave their wives.
Ken Mehlman isn't gay.
Wanted: Dead or Alive.
The recession started BEFORE Bush came to office.
Republicans are for small government.
Republicans are pro-defense.
Bush will try diplomacy before invading Iran.
There will be no draft.
George Bush won the election.
George Bush doesn't hate black people.
The PDB was a historical document.
The religious right speaks for Christians.
What Americans REALLY care about is flag burning and gay marriage.