Lie by Lie Timeline

You serious about that? Some of us have pointed out lies to you, as you well know.

Cycloptichorn

"There are no war plans on my desk" June 13, 2002 Transcript here

Now, as I've noted earlier, it's possible he wasn't lying. The plans he had ordered up months earlier could have been in the Oval Office safe behind the framed portrait of James Wilkes Booth. Or Lucinda, the White House cleaning lady, could have waited for a signal from the folks in the next room who were monitoring Bush's speech and, at a quick and demanding finger wag, could have lifted the plans off the table with one hand while quickly dusting with the other, precisely as Bush spoke.

blatham wrote:

"There are no war plans on my desk" June 13, 2002 Transcript here

Now, as I've noted earlier, it's possible he wasn't lying. The plans he had ordered up months earlier could have been in the Oval Office safe behind the framed portrait of James Wilkes Booth. Or Lucinda, the White House cleaning lady, could have waited for a signal from the folks in the next room who were monitoring Bush's speech and, at a quick and demanding finger wag, could have lifted the plans off the table with one hand while quickly dusting with the other, precisely as Bush spoke.

Okay. Now, if you'll just show that it was a lie when he said it, I'll concede that he lied.

If you can't, then you'd better find another example. Again, one and only one, and in your own words, not a cut and paste job. If he's such a big liar, you ought to be able to give one example, together with some evidence that it is a lie.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

You serious about that? Some of us have pointed out lies to you, as you well know.

Cycloptichorn

Give one link to such a post. Not so hard.

I'd tell you to specify one and only one lie, in your own words, clearly, or provide a link to a past post in which someone did, but I know I'd never get a straight answer.

Pathologizing Conservatism

Is it an unfortunate evolutionary holdover, or the product of bad upbringing?

Ronald Bailey

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According to Professor Altemeyer, right-wing authoritarians are cognitively rigid, aggressive, and intolerant. They are characterized by steadfast conformity to group norms, submission to higher status individuals, and aggression toward out-groups and unconventional group members.

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Smith believes this tendency also explains the "rallying around" effect that occurs during attacks and wartime. Smith noted that polls taken on September 7-10, 2001, gave President Bush only a 51 percent approval rating, whereas his approval rating had jumped to 81 percent on September 15. The same phenomenon occurred after the Oklahoma City bombing under President Clinton and after the Marine barracks were blown up in Lebanon under President Reagan. He asked the not-unreasonable question, "Why do we rally around [them] when our leaders fail?" Smith evidently believes that evolution has hardwired humans to react that way.

http://www.reason.com/rb/rb102004.shtml

The Other Lies of George Bush
David Corn

George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies have loomed largest. In the run-up to the invasion, Bush based his case for war on a variety of unfounded claims that extended far beyond his controversial uranium-from-Niger assertion. He maintained that Saddam Hussein possessed "a massive stockpile" of unconventional weapons and was directly "dealing" with Al Qaeda--two suppositions unsupported then (or now) by the available evidence. He said the International Atomic Energy Agency had produced a report in 1998 noting that Iraq was six months from developing a nuclear weapon; no such report existed (and the IAEA had actually reported then that there was no indication Iraq had the ability to produce weapons-grade material). Bush asserted that Iraq was "harboring a terrorist network, headed by a senior Al Qaeda terrorist planner"; US intelligence officials told reporters this terrorist was operating ouside of Al Qaeda control. And two days before launching the war, Bush said, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Yet former deputy CIA director Richard Kerr, who is conducting a review of the prewar intelligence, has said that intelligence was full of qualifiers and caveats, and based on circumstantial and inferential evidence. That is, it was not no-doubt stuff. And after the major fighting was done, Bush declared, "We found the weapons of mass destruction." But he could only point to two tractor-trailers that the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency had concluded were mobile bioweapons labs. Other experts--including the DIA's own engineering experts--disagreed with this finding.

But Bush's truth-defying crusade for war did not mark a shift for him. Throughout his campaign for the presidency and his years in the White House, Bush has mugged the truth in many other areas to advance his agenda. Lying has been one of the essential tools of his presidency. To call the forty-third President of the United States a prevaricator is not an exercise of opinion, not an inflammatory talk-radio device. Rather, it is backed up by an all-too-extensive record of self-serving falsifications. While politicians are often derided as liars, this charge should be particularly stinging for Bush. During the campaign of 2000, he pitched himself as a candidate who could "restore" honor and integrity to an Oval Office stained by the misdeeds and falsehoods of his predecessor. To brand Bush a liar is to negate what he and his supporters declared was his most basic and most important qualification for the job.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20031013/corn

Ya might as well bang your head against a wall, for all the good it'll do you, Cy. This pathology, [explained in the following article] runs deep in RWAs like Brandon, Foxy, Tico, GS, McG, etc [I had to include McG because this describes him to a T]

It's as if there's a mental switch that turns off the ability to perceive facts, surrendering their brains to authority figures, no matter how wicked or corrupt these AFs might be....

What do you believe to be a universally accepted definition of a lie Brandon?
(and please, since you frown on cut and paste, break it down in your own words)