HA-HA!! Caught in the act...again.

[tjwash]

And again, and again and again and again...

Mark Simone falsely claimed "a month ago, both Pelosi and Reid were for more troops"

Courtesy of Mediamatters:

On the January 16 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, while discussing President Bush's decision to deploy more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, New York radio host Mark Simone falsely asserted: "Remember, a month ago, both Pelosi and Reid were for more troops. As soon as Bush was for it, they were against it." In reality, on December 20, Pelosi issued a statement to TPMmuckraker.com rejecting an increase in troop levels for Iraq. She wrote: "There are no easy answers in Iraq, but there are wrong ones. I do not support increasing troop levels in Iraq to further the President's current failed policy." Additionally, on March 13, 2006, in a press release in response to a Bush speech on Iraq, Pelosi called for a change in policy and the withdrawal of U.S. troops, saying: "Instead of launching yet another public relations campaign, President Bush should use his speeches this week to provide a strategy to bring our brave men and women home safely and soon."

On the December 17 edition of ABC's This Week, Reid told host George Stephanopoulos that he would "go along with" an increase of troops in Iraq "(i)f it's for a surge that is for two or three months and it's part of a program to get us out of there by this time next year." He then added: "If the commanders on the ground said this is just for a short period of time, we'll go along with that." On December 19, Reid posted an item on the website, The Huffington Post, in which he wrote: "I do not believe more troops is the answer in for Iraq." Reid added: "I believe we should start redeploying troops in 4 to 6 months (The Levin-Reed Plan) and complete the withdrawal of combat forces by the first quarter of 2008."

What a surprise - another fat, uninformed, Rush Wannabe gets air time to spread RNC spin. Lies and the lying liars and all that...

[renate]

1. these people suffer no consequences when they out-and-out lie

It's not surprising when it happens, but it's so discouraging.

If the right-wing talking heads were somehow magically made to tell the truth and only the truth, I wonder what Bush's approval ratings would be?