Lying Your Way Into War? Apparently Not a Scandal

[babylonsister]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/48875
Submitted by Chip on Fri, 2010-01-01 12:32.

Lying Your Way Into War? Apparently Not a Scandal
By Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America | Alternet


The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wants to know what people think is "the best (or worst) Republican political scandal of the decade?" Ambinder offers four choices:



Not mentioned? The Bush administration lying its way into a war of choice, listening in on the phone conversations of Americans, torture, Abu Ghraib, putting an unqualified crony in charge of FEMA, the US Attorneys firing, outing a CIA operative to get back at her husband, etc.

I don't think Ambinder is unique in his view of what constitutes a major political scandal, not by any stretch of the imagination. But when the political/media elite come to view the possibility that Larry Craig tried to pick up a guy in an airport as more scandalous than Abu Ghraib, warrantless wiretapping of Americans, or the dishonest march to war against a country that didn't attack us, we're in pretty bad shape.

[gateley]

1. Certainly not a scandal if the liar is a Republican. They wear it proudly. nt

[MuseRider]

2. Apparently they were not scandal enough

to prosecute or even investigate fully so why should anyone be surprised they are not included here?

[winyanstaz]

3. Proof that all Americans should turn off the main stream media...

and proof that they are lying traitors to America too.

[pansypoo53219]

4. the GNEWS didn't think it was as EVIL

as a BLOW JOB.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Link to the original poll -- I voted "other"

http://politics.theatlantic.com/

Some nice comments: http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/12/decade_in_review_the_worst_gop_scandal.php#comments