Posted on 05/22/2005 3:29:54 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Sandy Berger is caught cramming top-secret intelligence documents down the front of his pants. Dan Rather is caught using forged documents to try to influence a presidential election.
John Kerry slanders a million of his "band of brothers" in bogus testimony before Congress and then continues to lie for the next 30 years, claiming that in 1968 he was sent by Richard Nixon (who wasn’t president yet) to Cambodia on Christmas eve (which never happened), hearing the Vietnamese "sing Christmas carols" (the Vietnamese are Buddhists and don't celebrate Christmas) and being fired upon by the Khmer Rouge (which didn't become a military force until a half decade later).
Howard Dean attempts to spread outrageous lies about President Bush about the events of 9/11, only admitting – after being caught in his dissembling – that he never believed the lies himself. Al Sharpton makes his name by helping to fake the rape of a young child. Ted Kennedy clings to his family name after leaving his "female companion" to drown while he swims to shore to sober up before calling the police.
And Bill Clinton – well, he “never had sex with that woman!”
Al Gore recognizes that if he is going to be of any future relevance, he must join the parade of liars. He quickly reinvents himself by morphing from a quiet, thoughtful policy wonk to a demagogue spewing the anti-American venom and propaganda that has become the coin of the realm in today's Democratic party.
The leadership of the Democratic Party gives a standing ovation to Michael Moore’s fake documentary, which they know to be nothing more than a lie-filled, hate-filled, anti-American propaganda piece. And Ward Churchill's lies not only gain him tenured employment but elevate him to department head at the University of Colorado.
These are not odd zealots but the heart and soul of today's Democratic Party. From its most recent standard bearer to the newly-minted head of the DNC to its leading voices in "civil rights" issues to its top foreign policy advisors to its House and Senate leadership and beyond, lying has become the party’s defining trait, while the few Democrats too decent to lie – the Joe Liebermans and Dick Gephardts, for example – find themselves with less support among the party faithful than did Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat.
It is dificult to take seriously charges that Republicans are "liars" when that accusation is leveled in books like Al Franken's "Lying Liars and the Lying Lies They Tell." After all, how much credence can one given Franken when he had to testify in a court of law – to save himself from a mountain of libel suits – that his book was never intended to be taken seriously? The court agreed that no reasonable person could read "Lying Liars" and think it factual and thus the book was published as a fictional joke book.
So why do Democrats lie? Well, for one thing, they have to. Democrats recognize that the vast majority of the American people reject their basic philosophy – as they did resoundingly in the last presidential and congressional elections – which says that all domestic problems can be solved with forced confiscation and redistribution of income, all social issues can be resolved by more and more government control over the citizenry, and all international questions can be answered by ceding American sovereignty to corrupt foreign powers like France and corrupt organizations like the United Nations.
Further they have to lie because their track record is one of utter failure. The Democrats had 40 years of uninterrupted social experimentation that yielded little to nothing that enhanced our democracy, either domestically or in terms of foreign affairs. Just like the failing regimes of socialist Europe and the failed regime of communist Russia, Democrats cannot point to a single time when leftism – including their own – hasn't brought despair.
After decades of Democrat-driven "affirmative action", "new math" and "multicultural" experiments, blacks are still disproportionately members of an underclass and our schools (unlike those of the past that created "The Greatest Generation") are now so dysfunctional that we have to outsource the simplest jobs to countries like India. Forty years of leftism has left America more divided, not less divided, as the left pursues its agenda of replacing a "melting pot" that worked with a "mosaic" of multiculturalism, multilingualism and America bashing that clearly doesn’t.
These are the tactical reasons that make Democrats lie. Leftists are also liars for philosophical reasons and because, I believe, of psychological aberrations. In the words of former feminist leader Tammy Bruce, leftwing Democrats are "malignant narcissists." In their arrogance, modern liberals believe in nothing greater than themselves and that whatever they say – anything that advances their agenda – must be "the truth."
The flipside of this coin is that they believe that anyone who disagrees with them must be – can only be – stupid or liars or racists. In their self-serving, self-aggrandizing minds, they justify their lies in the name of doing the rest of us a favor, the better to get us to do what they believe is the "right" thing.
Believing in nothing but self doesn't just mean rejecting the obvious higher callings of God, freedom, family and country, but even the smaller things that good people once respected and honored are rejected by today's Democrats.
In times past, a journalist might have had the same ideological bent as a Dan Rather, but his respect for his profession – what they used to call "journalistic integrity" – kept him from being an out and out liar. In the old days, Hollywood's love for the movies compelled them to award the best picture Oscar to what was really the best picture. Today, without regard to the quality of the film, the award is given to any movie that advances the leftists' agenda. This year it was the pro-euthanasia "Million Dollar Baby", in contention with a pro-abortion film and one that touted the work of that known pervert Alfred Kinsey.
In another age, a museum curator placed beauty ahead of personal ideology and thus filled the halls of great museums with exceptional works based on their aesthetic value. Today's "artist" doesn't believe in beauty and thus seeks only to advance their anti-God agenda by filling the space with crosses drenched in urine and pictures of the Virgin Mary smeared in elephant dung.
Democrats lie because, with nothing bigger than themselves to believe in – not God, not country, not democracy, not art, not facts, not history, not freedom – they believe they themselves to be gods, and thus their beliefs become their own “gospel truth." Which is no truth at all!
Evan Sayet is a writer, speaker and pundit in Los Angeles and former Communications Director for LA for President Bush. He has been a TV and movie writer with credits ranging from "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" to the cult classic "Win Ben Stein's Money" and the Discovery Channel documentary "The 70's: When Decades Attack." He is currently working on a book: "Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals `Think.” Evan’s blog is SayetRight.Blogspot.Com
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"i didnt, what did he say?"
Just a bunch of lies and side stepping, typical Nikita Dean. Tim did a pretty good job IMO...he really brought forward all of the stuff that Dean has said aside from his racial remark from earlier this year.
He asked dean why he said he hated republicans, why he said DeLay should go to jail while Osama is innocent until proven guilty, etc.
He did poorly because he was and is a reasonable man. While I may not agree with him on a lot of things, at least he was honest. Just not far enough to the left to suit them.
I think Tim did a pretty good job. He didn't really hammer him, but the stuff he brought up really made Dean look like an ass. I guess he didnt have to because it was apparent that Dean was doing his usual sidestepping.
I worked in a Catholic hospital in my off duty time during my tour in Vietnam. The nuns worked very hard to tend to the sick. They had very little and when we arrived they were so gleeful they were like children. Surgeons operated on crossed eyes, hair lips, and all manner of things that had been left alone. We got in a little trouble for doing it but I am sure there are many adults in Vietnam today that remember Americans fondly. They also ran a school and it seemed to have many children attending.
The author is exaggerating with this one. Kerry never said that. It's too farfetched for most people to believe. Kerry's (and the rest of the Dems') lies are much more subtle.
Kerry said the Vietnamese were "celebrating." Vietnam does not celebrate Christmas. More likely, they were celebrating Tet (Vietnamese New Year) which is observed in February--therein are Kerry's lies exposed. Kerry claims the "Christmas in Vietnam/Cambodia" episode was "seared" into his memory and that Nixon was President at the time--which is a blatant untruth.
With proper fact-checking, we discover that Kerry was indeed lying about the incident, but not as this author suggests. Truth, not exaggeration and faulty reasoning, is the best weapon we have against the lies of the left.
Hardcore dems don't like Lieberman. A liberal friend asked me during the 2004 election, "If you had to vote for a Democrat, which would it be?" I told him Lieberman was the best of the bunch and he said "Well he's just about a f@#((#* Republican anyway."
"... without regard to the quality of the film, the award is given to any movie that advances the leftists' agenda."
And .. the liberals continue to give awards to the worst people, like Dan Rather, et. al. .. only because they are lefties and not because they deserve the award.
i've been listeneing to the interview on drudge, seems that tim russert grew some balls!
I told ya! :D
ping
Danke Sehr!
Leftists, "liberals", Democrats: The Perverse Opposition
employs tactics of defamation, vilification, slander, misrepresentation, anti-American propaganda, pander, monger, thought-control, groupthink, obstruction, etc.
They publicly demonstrate they are congenitally hysterionic, unmediatative, intolerant, delusional, irrational, neurotic, imperious, etc. The ego-elites expose themselves for what they are. They hate anyone right of the Marxist median.
However, I am disappointed with the Republican party.
I wish Republicans wouldn't keep proving that they are the party of the lesser evil instead of the greater good.
from an independent traditionalist-conservative...American.
Tim did a pretty good job CONSIDERING HE'S A NEWSMAN. Imagine what a right-tilting questioner could have asked! Things like (perish the thought!): "Safe" for whom, Dr. Dean--surely not the aborted babies? If Safe & Rare's the new slogan for Dems, they lose.
Thanks for your excellent comments, purpleland. You're right, and I agree with you that our Republicans need to grow some spine and behave like the WINNERS that so many of us worked very hard to create for them!
There is too much deference and courtesy being paid to this DNC leadership. They do NOT deserve deference! They have abused this president again and again with their untempered, wicked castigations and, in my opinion, outright slander against him!
The only thing they deserve is to be voted out of office at the earliest opportunity.
Char :)
"They hate anyone right of the Marxist median."
Thanks for your excellent comments, purpleland. You're right, and I agree with you that our Republicans need to grow some spine and behave like the WINNERS that so many of us worked very hard to create for them!
There is too much deference and courtesy being paid to this DNC leadership. They do NOT deserve deference! They have abused this president again and again with their untempered, wicked castigations and, in my opinion, outright slander against him!
The only thing they deserve is to be voted out of office at the earliest opportunity.
Char :)
***Char, I second your motion! In all my years I've never observed such overt pathological behaviors from Democrat party members and its partisanship. (They used to be more subtle about it. : )
Bam! Nail on the head.
THIS is the article that Rush read from extensively yesterday. :o)
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