He spent a half hour in ecstasy, repeatedly turning to Tyrell's lie-filled screed about Joe Wilson, purportedly as an entree to his question, "Does the government have the right to lie to the people?" I never could figure out the connection, other than to push his clear right wing agenda, and, perhaps, his friendship with Tyrell. Are they close?
The piece ran in the Washington Times, of course, Washington Journal's favorite, and I'll wager, most quoted newspaper.
Among Tyrell's filthy lies, which covered Hillary, as well, was that Wilson claimed that Cheney requested that he be sent to Niger, which Wilson NEVER claimed. The right has made that one of their stock lies, repeated by John Fund on Tweety's show last night, passing unchallenged by Matthews, a Chicago Trib reporter, and perhaps another guest (can't remember if there was another, but Matthews let Fund dominate the conversation, which he filled with more than a few distortions, and outright lies....surprised?)
The Tyrell editorial, though, was simply mindboggling in its
crazed mendacity, almost pure self-parody. What's sad is the fact that Lamb read it as if it were written in stone and handed down from some mountain of wisdom. Just as sad was that no caller challenged Tyrell's assertions, or questioned why Lamb is so obsessed with the Washington Times as a "news source." I know that's been discussed here before, and is very occasionally mentioned on CSPAN, but I wish more callers would let Lamb know that his reliance on the Fox News of the print media is NOT appreciated.
Here:
http://www.creators.com/opinion/r-emmett-tyrrell/what-s-in-a-lie.htmlWhat's In A Lie?
WASHINGTON — I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, has been found guilty of lying and faces many years in prison. Joseph C. Wilson, his tormentor, has been found guilty of lying, and out in Hollywood they are going to make a movie of his life. He is Hollywood's idea of a hero.
According to a Senate inquiry, this mellifluous gasbag lied about findings regarding the Iraqis' pursuit of uranium in Niger.
He lied when he suggested that he went on a mission there at the request of the vice president. And again he lied when he claimed that his report on Niger was circulated at the highest levels of government. In all three lies he got caught. Yet, he has emerged as a liberal icon. That sounds like a Hollywood movie to me. He also apparently lied when he said his wife was a covert CIA operative. If so, she was the CIA's station chief in Georgetown (As in D.C., not Guyana).
Then there is this lubricous whopper deposited in the Washington Post by the tireless Wilson: "If you take the time to look at the testimony, it makes very clear the extent to which senior officials within this administration embarked on a disinformation campaign, the justification of which was to cover up the lies they said in the first place." The testimony does nothing of the kind. I am coming to like this man, but then, I liked Clifford Irving, the great hoaxer who wrote the bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes. And to be honest, I have a warm spot in my heart for Bill Clinton. It is fortunate for Wilson that he has left no DNA trail marking his lies.
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