Liar, Liar
May 9th, 2007 at 2:18 pm by Susie
Seems to be the hardest word when they’re talking about BushCo:
One of the great mysteries about the mainstream press in the last six years is its seeming inability to use one particular word: “liar.”
At the end of the Clinton administration, the word was bandied about at regular intervals. After the former president’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” statement, the floodgates opened and full permission was granted to drop the word “liar” in at any opportunity.
But with the Bush administration, despite a six-year record of flat-out statements in total contradiction to the truth, nobody in the press wants to use the word. Anybody can tell a lie, but at what point does enough lies qualify one to be called a “liar” in the mainstream press? Especially when one is in high elective office?
The propagandists in the mainstream press won’t call the War Criminal-in-Chief a liar because they have been conplicit in the lies. They take the lies in and shovel them out. They are active participants in the deceit and they, too, have blood on their hands.