Ken Mehlman is a LYING LIAR ---->>>

[Stephanie]

Josh Marshall catalogues some of the LIES told by Ken Mehlman on Sunday's Meet the Press. The video is available here: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/11/13.html#a5844

Link to the MTP transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9967566/

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

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Let's catalog a few of <Mehlman's lies>.

One was that the Senate intel report exonerated the administration of any effort to mislead the American people over Iraq. Wrong. They specifically did not look at that question.

He also said the Silbermann/Robb Commission concluded the same thing. Wrong. They too were specifically not authorized to examine that question.

He said the British Butler Report said the same thing. First of all, who cares what a Report written to cover Tony Blair said? Second of all, it said no such thing.

He said the Duelfer Report said Saddam "was trying to reconstitute his weapons programs." That is at best a highly, highly misleading description of the report.

He said that Saddam "had supported terrrorists, had terrorists operating out of his country." There are so many different lies and canards potentially underlying this claim it's hard to know where to start. But again, wrong. None of the purported evidence for this claim has ever stood up.

This hurricane of lies scarcely covers all the false or misleading statements he made in just that one little video clip. So please take a look at the clip and send in any more examples you find of clearly false or intentionally misleading statements.

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-- Josh Marshall

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. The pictures alone prove it

His mouth is open. He's a Republican. Ergo, he's lying.

[afdip]

2. it's his job . . . he's paid to lie

[Arugula Latte]

8. On the Special Skills section of his resume it says:

Lying. Prevaricating. Telling Whoppers. Exaggerating. Twisting Words. Taking Things Out of Context. Relating Tall Tales. Spinning Yarns.

[izzybeans]

3. Mr. Obvious is staring us in the face. The title of the essay is redundant

...thrice. Mehlman=Lying=Liar

Equally good title: "Lies all lies, and that Lying bastard lied about the lies he told about that other liar. What was his name? Oh yes. liar." or "Lies and the Liars who Lie for them"

[Stephanie]

6. A Lying Liar Lies about the Lying Liars' Lies

Should I change it?

[izzybeans]

9. Hell no its perfect.

:7

[mike_c]

4. why the F*CK does the american media serve as mouthpiece...

...to lying asshats like Mehlman? They legitimize him by giving him a forum. Thankfully, I've boycotted television for over a decade, and I urge others to do the same. Let these rat bastards talk themselves blue into the empty aether. It won't matter if no one's listening!

[stevedeshazer]

5. After watching Little Kenny's dog-and-pony show,

and seeing Russert leave Mehlman's lies unchallenged for the most part, I realize that I have more contempt for this swine than even Scott McLellan. He is a lying pusbag of the first order.

[Stephanie]

7. They have no choice but to tell more lies

They either have to continue lying or admit everything. There's no way around it.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

10. what about the one

where Russet pressed him for an answer that 58% think the bush administration lied. Mehlman said "well I don't know the internals to that poll but" :crazy:

[Flubadubya]

11. Actually he said he would fire the pollster...

when Russert came down with ALL those negatives in the poll. I think he thought he was being cute, but I thought he was NAILED! :rofl:

[Stephanie]

12. He DID say that - hysterical!

And check out the double-speak that follows:

RUSSERT: J.D. Hayworth in Arizona said he wouldn't want the president to campaign for him in Arizona. Anne Northup in Kentucky said it wouldn't be a--she hasn't decided right now, but wants to find out whether it would be a good idea. Friday in Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum stayed in another part of the state when the president went up to Wilkes-Barre. And look at these numbers. This is what the voters say. Preference for 2006 congressional candidates, Republican-controlled Congress, 37; Democrats, 48. Our congressional Republicans, "Do they have the same priorities as you for the country?" Same priorities, yes, 24; no, 58. "In which issues do you prefer the Democrats over the Republicans?" Environment, gas prices, health care, Social Security, education, reducing deficits, energy policy, economy, government spending, taxes, trade issues, foreign policy, abortion, immigration, ethics in government, and Iraq--16 of the 19 issues we presented to the people, they chose the Democrats. Your party's in trouble?

MR. MEHLMAN: Tim, usually, when I get a poll like that, I will fire the pollster. That's my response that I usually do to that. Look, in all seriousness, there's no question we're in difficult political times. And the question is fundamentally, do we have an agenda of change?

What the American people clearly want, in my judgment, is the same thing they wanted in 2004 and 2002, when we as the incumbents won, because we were seen as agents of change, and the Democrats were seen as agents of the status quo. What they want is change, and they want change because too often, the government hasn't served their needs. That's why we created a Patriot Act and a Department of Homeland Security, why we reformed education, why we reformed our tax laws and litigation rules.

[confludemocrat]

13. Marshall says we will need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission post-Bush

, I assume he means, if not immediately post-2006 elections. Truer words were never spoken lately. I have had that same thought many times during and since Fall 2002. And we also need a constitutional amendment that bans a president from issuing pardons to executive branch political appointees, don't you think?

[The Wielding Truth]

14. YES YES YES YES YES uhm YES. Stop this corruption!

[mwb970]

15. I saw him on there. He is truly disgusting.

As far as I could tell, everything he said was either a lie or an already-refuted wingnut talking point. Except maybe that line about shooting his pollster - that's their "kill the messenger" approach to bad news.

What a load of crap his appearance was.