Their Lips are Moving
Here’s a selection of the lies propagated by the Right in the last few years:
- Iraq sent its WMDs to Syria.
- Democrats don’t want to wiretap terrorists.
- Mexicans are taking our jobs.
- Scooter Libby has a faulty memory.
- Tom DeLay is like Jesus Christ.
- No one could have anticipated that the levees would be breached.
- We do not torture.
- There is no global warming.
- There is global warming, but humans didn’t cause it.
- John F. Kerry is a flip-flopper.
- George W. Bush is a decider.
- Nobody at the White House knows Jack Abramoff.
- Evolution isn’t supported by the facts.
- Diebold voting machines are secure.
- Fox News is fair and balanced.
- Mission accomplished.
- No one could have anticipated the Iraqi insurgency.
- The budget deficit will be cut in half in four years.
- Anyone who thinks Dubai shouldn’t control our ports is racist.
- No one who thinks we should build a wall along the Mexican border is racist.
- Terry Schiavo wants to live.
- We’ve turned a corner in Iraq.
- There’s a war on Christmas.
- There’s no civil war in Iraq.
- The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
- Bush won Florida in 2000.
- Bush won Ohio in 2004.
- We support open, free, and fair elections … for the Ukraine.
- I earned political capital… and I intend to spend it.
- Losing by 2 million votes in 2000 is a mandate.
- Winning by 3 million votes in 2004 is a mandate.
- The grownups will now be in charge.
- Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.
- Kathleen Blanco never asked for federal help.
- Moral values voters.
- The earth is 6,000 years old.
- We’re not interested in banning contraceptives.
- Bush flew F-102s in the Texas Air National Guard.
- Bush is a compassionate conservative.
- John Kerry "outed" Mary Cheney
- John Kerry shot himself in the leg to earn his medals
- Al Gore thinks he invented the internet.
- Bill Clinton was once offered Bin Laden "on a silver platter" and turned it down.
- Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11.
- 9/11 changed everything.
- No one could have anticipated airplanes flying into buildings.
- We have removed the Taliban from Afghanistan.
- The Iraqis will welcome us with open arms and flowers…
- Yellow magnetic car ribbons really help the troops.
- We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.
- Iraqi oil will pay for the war and the reconstruction.
- Gas prices are high because of librul environmental regulations.
- Drilling the ANWR will lower the price of oil.
- The ‘magic of the marketplace’ will solve all problems.
- Unemployment numbers have never been so low.
- By far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum.
- Tax cuts increase revenue.
- The estate tax hurts family farms.
- Private Accounts will save Social Security.
- No Child Left Behind will help all children.
- Healthy Skies Initiative will reduce air pollution.
- Republicans are compassionate conservatives.
- Dissent is unpatriotic.
- You’re either with us, or against us.
- All options are on the table.
- Republicans are the party of ideas.
- These are not assertions. These are facts backed up by solid intelligence.
- Terri Schiavo is responsive. (Bill Frist on the Senate floor).
- I never said she was responsive (Bill Frist, about a week later).
- Anyone who leaks information will no longer be part of this administration.
- Harriet would be a great justice. I know her heart.
- Terrorists didn’t know we could use wiretaps until they read about it in the paper.
- I will restore honor and integrity to the White House.
- I’m a uniter, not a divider.
- The ‘CEO’ President.
- If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.
- If gays are allowed to marry then heterosexual men will leave their wives.
- Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
- "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
A much fuller list can be found at AmericaBlog.
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