Bush lied about Brown resignation

[freemen2005]

There are three kinds of lies, Mark Twain once said: Lies, damn lies and statistics. And George W. Bush is three kinds of a liar: A liar, a damned liar and a statistically-proven liar.

Bush stood in front of reporters in Mississippi Monday and lied outright when he claimed he did not know embattled FEMA director Mike Brown had thrown in the towel and resigned. In fact, Bush gave Brown the towel and told him to throw it or hang himself with it. He had demanded Brown's resignation and knew before he landed in the Gulf states that he had it. Only problem was, he told Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff to delay the announcement until after the photo op trip to the the hurricane ravaged areas of Mississippi and New Orleans. Dubya doesn't like competition when it comes to staging news events.

But Brown, pissed at being forced out, went ahead and released his resignation to the media. When confronted by reporters, Bush does what he always does when faced with a situation not scripted in advance by his handlers -- he lied.

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http://www.americannewsreel.com/

[xultar]

1. I lknow! I saw that shit and wondered why no one called his ass on it.

[eleny]

2. Spot on!

[SteppingRazor]

3. That's a pretty dumb lie too...

I mean, doesn't it make him look even more ragingly incompetent (if that's possible) when he has to admit that he doesn't know his FEMA director has resigned?