Americablog: "Lies, Lies, Everywhere Lies"

[Hissyspit]

Good post from Rob in Baltimore at Americablog:

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/lies-lies-everywhere-lies.html

Lies lies, everywhere lies
by Rob in Baltimore - 7/15/2005 09:15:00 AM

The Press As Liars
The media has reported from day one of this administration that the White House is nearly leak free. That is a lie and they created it.

Since we have learned that they do in fact leak, we now know what double-super-secret really means -- the press is required to create and perpetuate the lie that the White House doesn't leak. (I think that I should have paid more attention to passing notes in sixth grade. Who knew it was really a skill I needed for success in the 21st century?)

The White House As Liars -- and a threat to our National Security
Now that Rove through his attorneys has REPEATEDLY confirmed that he leaked Valarie Plame's name to the press and with what John has uncovered about the Democratic Convention leak here, I think it's obvious that this administration does in fact leak -- they just do it with discipline. (Really it's called "message control" and Republicans do it much better than the Democrats.)

In the Khan story, one rationale for leaking his name is that it would lend credibility an otherwise suspect raising of the terror threat level. Why might it have been suspect? Perhaps because the press and public wouldn't trust the administration when they raised the threat levels without something substantial? Perhaps because the press and public wouldn't trust an administration that had lied about WMD? It was a leak created out of weakness that people like Joe Wilson helped create by exposing their WMD lies.

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[tk2kewl]

1. Lies, Lies, Lies... Yeaha!

There gonna get you!

[zbdent]

2. Hmm, has anyone put "Lies" to the music of

the Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs"?