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Fri. Apr 10, 2009

Vice Presidential Lies and Exaggerations

In the ongoing slapfest between members of the former administration and members of the current administration, our latest offering comes from former propaganda minister Karl Rove. Speaking of VP Biden, he said:

“He’s a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind I would say he’s a liar, but it’s a habit he ought to drop,” Rove said on FOX News. “You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the vice president of the United States.”

With that last line, Rove has played Bud Abbott to every Lou Costello with a blog. Shall we peruse but a few quotes from the VP of the last eight years?

“Well, you’re going to get into a debate here about — talking about several years, several hundred thousand troops for several years. I think that’s a non-starter. I don’t think we have any plan to do that, Tim. I don’t think it’s necessary to do that.” Vice President Dick Cheney 3/16/03

“And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. I think Mr. ElBaradei, frankly, is wrong. And I think if you look at the track record of the International Atomic Energy Agency and this kind of issue, especially where Iraq is concerned, they have consistently underestimated or missed what it was Saddam Hussein was doing.” Vice President Dick Cheney 3/16/03

“In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more.” Vice President Dick Cheney, Nov. 7, 2003

“I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.” Vice President Dick Cheney, June 20, 2005

These are found in minutes via a simple search for Cheney quotes. The results are pages filled with lies and exaggerations, not stirring quotes of a historic nature. Because that is the legacy he left.

In fact, David Letterman recently did a bit called “The Dick Cheney Lie Count.” In other words, the lies and exaggerations of Cheney are so much a part of our mainstream culture that our comedians use it to make us laugh.

So, Karl … go stick your head in your undisclosed location. You sound like Jeffrey Dahmer telling someone they really shouldn’t eat veal because it’s cruel.