Posted on 05/03/2025 3:07:16 PM PDT by Libloather
Democratic political strategist James Carville expressed frustration with the state of his party on his podcast Thursday, arguing that Republicans are able to get away with lying while Democrats are held to a higher standard of credibility.
Talking to guest Ryan Lizza, a journalist, he said, “People say to me all the time, ‘James, why don’t we just do like the Republicans do? Just stand up and lie?’ Because our f—ing people wouldn’t stand for it!” Carville said. “If I stood up and lied, you would be the first person to say, ‘James Carville lost all credibility last night when he said X, Y and Z.’”
Carville, a longtime political talking head, was a top strategist for former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign.
“Yeah, I can spin,” Carville continued. “I can shade. Everybody does that. They just look you right in the eye and lie!” He added, “And then our people say, ‘We ought to lie like them!’ No, we shouldn’t! ‘Cause they would not do that. It would not go over well.”
President Clinton was impeached in 1998 by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice connected to his testimony about a relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The issue of authenticity came up more recently during the 2024 election. A new book claimed Democrats had major concerns about former President Joe Biden’s decline and cognitive abilities ahead of his June debate against President Donald Trump, despite publicly maintaining that the former president was fit to serve another four years.
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It says a lot about our times when people can’t tell the difference between satire and genuine news.
That’s it!!! That’s what he is! 51% lizard, 49% human!!!!
So, all those bottles of booze behind him in the interviews finally turned him into a stand up comedian?
Does he have to end every statement with, “You will not surely die.”?
Carville through the looking glass.
“The border is secure”.
Carvel obviously knows you can’t lose something that you don’t have so what’s his point? His way of exposing his own lack of credibility?
Serpenthead can go entertain himself.
Too late Jimbo. That ship has sailed.
James Carville is a proven liar.
In the 1998 Clinton sex scandal he promised he’d never ever issue another political comment if it was proven that Bill Clinton had sex with Monica.
And here he is 27 years later. Every political opinion he utters is daily proof that HE’S A LIAR.
Mr. “Drag a hundred dollar Bill through a trailer park” is now worried about telling lies?
I don’t care who you are, that is pretty funny!
GOP lie: “Your side shave looks great, Hon.”
Rat lie: “Trump colluded with Putin to steal the election!”
So, no comparison. The GOP lies are straight from the bowels of hell, indeed!
I thought this was The Bee. Carville has one foot off the crazy edge of the world.
That's a whopper of a lie right there. The Demonicrats have NO credibility.
"I believe he knows full well what he is doing."
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman…”.
I thought he said a $10 bill. That was the 1990s, so $100 today after inflation.
Democrats “truthfulness” has always been conspicuously manifested:
<><> Bill Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice
<><>his testimony about White House intern Monica Lewinsky was deemed a lie.
<><>The issue of authenticity came up more recently during the 2024 election.
<><>Dems had major concerns wrt Biden’s cognitive abilities before his incoherent June debate,
<><>dems gulled the voters, publicly maintaining Biden was fit to serve another four years.
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