Remember when Clinton staffers trashed the White House before they left?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

How could it be a lie if it was widely reported in the American news media?

[murielm99]

1. Yep.

And the CBS documents are forgeries, too!

[LisaLynne]

2. You know ...

I still have to debunk this one for people? Geez.

[They_LIHOP]

3. Surely you jest?

Simply part of the early signs of the way that the Media would accept ANYTHING the bushies said as the Gospel, without ever investigating it themselves. Turns out this was a bullshit story, at least, the vast majority of it was not true, and there are official government reports to that effect.

Obviously, this trend of the media's has continued ever since ... despite dozens of times the bushies have been caught BS'ing...

[REVOLT823]

12. You would think they would get sick of being made to look like asses by

Shrubco, but apprently not.

[Cocoa]

4. Scott Simon's essay (NPR weekend edition)

it's staggering the extent to which people like Simon got duped...

http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/010127.whitehouse.html

SIMON: ...W's. Departing Democrats defamed computer keyboards of their `W' keys. It was a prank eight years ago. Outgoing Republicans had left Bush-Quayle stickers behind to grin at Democrats from desk drawers and computer terminals. But bumper stickers can be removed, ha-ha. At least some Clinton staffers also apparently glued filing cabinets shut, switched around the face plates on telephones and overturned desk chairs and tables. Ho-ho! Scores of keyboards have to be replaced, tee-hee. Lewd cartoons were left in computer printers. Yuck, yuck. And, finally, some of the staff who accompanied the Clintons to New York on their presidential 747 apparently absconded with some of the flatware and china assigned to the plane. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Part of the fun of a prank, after all, is enjoying the vision of making people laugh. Did the departing White House staffers think that vandalism is a laugh riot?

The small acts of destruction and theft somehow seem all of a piece with the Clintons' last moments in the White House, pardoning rich people with political links and accepting almost $200,000 worth of furnishings, silverware, china and a large-screen TV. The Clintons were calculating enough to accept the gifts in those few golden days between Senator Clinton's election and her oath of office, when Senate ethics laws would prohibit accepting such a trousseau of treasures.

Now there's nothing wrong with living large. But how much of the Clintons' new Robin Leach lifestyle is the American public supposed to support? Mr. Clinton is causing the government to rent an entire floor of office space in midtown Manhattan. Some other ex-presidents have settled for cheaper space, in capacious federal office buildings that are centrally located but not so near Carnegie Hall and The Russian Tea Room. Mr. Clinton's just signed a $3 million speech contract. The space American taxpayers are renting for him will presumably be used to make even more money. Senator Clinton signed an $8 million book contract just before being sworn to uphold the Senate ethics regulations. After so many years of public service, Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton are rich. Maybe they deserve to be. But they can also buy their own silverware, rather than accept gifts from people with the reason to seek favors. It is the enduring image the Clinton administration leaves with so many Americans, moments of brilliance, undermined by insistent immaturity.

[Wickerman]

6. I believe Simon eventually apologized for that bit

I might be mistaken and I recall being so saddened when I heard him read that piece. Scott should stick to music and baseball, apology or no.

[Tuttle]

7. The best part is how Office Max GAVE them new keyboards

but the tax payer was charged for them anyhow: Ari Fleischer brought out a big laundry list of charges and the good puppy media forgot to ask about THAT charge!

Tut-tut

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Simon is an ass who's source of income is a mystery to me

Anymore on his weekly program he has resorted to Iraq puff pieces that are suspicious in their resemblance to pure psyops.

[ClintonTyree]

5. Again..................

our super-sleuth media printed and aired these reports without a single effort made to support them. This set the stage for the barrage of Bush lies to the media that they slugged down like Jim Jones Kool-Aid. The media in this country is abysmal. They should be ashamed to call themselves Journalists, they're nothing more than rumor mongering Bush mouthpieces.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. as I recall, all the 'W's were removed from keyboards

and they were all found in a drawer somewhere, and that was the extent of it.
Sounds like the work of one joker. (A funny one at that.)

[nyhuskyfan]

10. When Clinton took office, the right wing...

Started right out of the chute with a lie (that he delayed planes at LAX for a haircut) and ended with a lie (that they trashed the White House). In between, they lied about him some more.

And yet those who start and spread the lies are never accountable.

[AntiCoup2K4]

11. "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"

- A. Hitler