Worst liar? Ari, Scotty or Tony?

[maveric]

Poll question: Worst liar? Ari, Scotty or Tony?

Of all of bu$h's press secretaries, which of thes guys is the absolute worst liar.

1.

2.

3.

My vote goes to Snow. An absolute tool from Fox.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. All of the above! nt

[peacebird]

3. All of the Above

[ellisonz]

2. Beam me up Scotty!

At least Snow and Fleischer speak lies with a "straight" face. Although, Snow's going to get very bad very quick.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Straight face or otherwise, they are all grade A liars and apparently damned proud of it!

[ellisonz]

19. Of course...

But I picked my choice. They are all grade A+ liars, and you can add another point since they are in "advanced placement."

:D :P

[hobbit709]

4. They are all bad liars

But snowjob almost sounds believable

[tridim]

5. Ari was a good liar, Simple Scotty was a bad liar, but..

never said much. He was the master of the "no comment".

Snow is just a flat out, bald-faced, shameless liar and he even lies when he knows he'll get caught. Snowjob gets the prize, easily.

[annabanana]

6. I dunno.. they've ALL been pretty good at it..

I think Tony sweats more, though.

[leftofthedial]

7. the press corps gave Scotty and especially Ari a complete pass,

playing along with the lies as though they were true.

phony snow has to lie even though he's now the only one in the room playing the neocon anti-reality game. it's utterly pathetic.

[etherealtruth]

8. I said this in an earlier thread today

I always expected Scotty to follow his comments with: Yeah, that's the ticket.

Further, showing my age, I wouldn't have been too surprised if he started a press conference (channeling Jon Lovitz) by stating: Lower your standards.

[AlCzervik]

9. Ari was a big liar but i think he knew that we knew that he was lying, Puffy

McMoonface was clearly out of his league and his flop sweat started almost the second he started speaking, big liar but a very unpolished one, imo the worst and the biggest of the 3 is Snow, not only does he lie with aplomb he 's also disgusting oily and insulting, more-so than almost any other wh spokes liar i can think of in the past 20 years.

[marmar]

10. At least you could laugh at Scotty's incompetence....

Tony Snow is a former frat boy-type garden variety asshole.

[napi21]

12. A GOOD LIAR is someone who can tell you a lie and you believe it!

Under that description, none of them are any good at all!

A bad liar is someone who makes any statement and noone believes it, even if it is once in a while true! To me, the TOP BAD LIAR is Shrub! No matter what he says, and no matter what the subject, noone believes him!

[rebel with a cause]

13. worse meaning.........

biggest liar or worse at lying?

[Richard Steele]

18. Exactly my question as well. I'd say Tony: biggest, Scotty: worst.

[rebel with a cause]

22. agreed

[etherealtruth]

14. Tony Snow is the "best" liar

He has absolutely no discomfort ...even when telling patently ridiculous lies. Ari had small ticks. By the end of his tenure I am sure Scotty was getting a little psychotic ... Tony is calm, cool and comfortable with any lie at any time.

[TahitiNut]

16. Absolutely. Snow is one of the most facile liars I've seen.

Neither Scotty nor Ari could pull it off with the oily smooth delivery with no evident conscience like Snow-job.

[mvd]

15. Tony has a special maliciousness that no doubt comes from FAUX

So I voted for him. But Ari is the most talented liar/propagandist.

[Berry Cool]

17. Snow's the worst, and here's why.

Well, worse than Scotty anyway. Scotty knew his lines but he always recited them as if he took no joy in saying them and he knew he would not be believed. He also had a tendency to repeat the same phrase over and over by rote but with no heart in it, as if even he knew he was pathetic.

Snowjob, on the other hand, is a propaganda-catapulting expert, and prides himself on it. Not only does he have the Rovian gift for being able to take whatever anyone says and turn it back on them, but he can lie and lie with a perfectly straight face and a slick line of patter...and when he does, he fully expects to be believed.

It's the difference between a guy who tries to sell you his old lemon of a jalopy, hoping you won't look under the hood and refusing to answer questions about its history, and a used-car dealer who knows he's trying to peddle a piece of junk but will gladhandle you into thinking you are getting the bargain of the century and will not take "no" for an answer.

[musette_sf]

23. good points

Tony makes me (almost) miss Puffy McMoonface.

[kohodog]

20. Do you mean "best" or " worst?"

Snow is the best liar because he is more likely to believed. Scotty was obviously in way over his head and couldn't convinve anyone he was telling even truthiness. Ari was a master of truthiness. They all lied all the time, but I would vote Tony as giving the best snow job.

[bdamomma]

21. all of the above.

all lying for that sleaze of a man Bush.

[CBHagman]

24. Scott McClellan.

Someone at The Washington Post compared McClellan's delivery to that of a hostage reading the kidnappers' statement on a videotape. :rofl: