Karen Hughes. Pathological Liar.
by kos
Wed Apr 28, 2004 at 10:24:08 PM PDT
And I think those are the kind of policies that the American people can support, particularly at a time when we're facing an enemy, and really the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life. It's the founding conviction of our country, that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Unfortunately our enemies in the terror network, as we're seeing repeatedly in the headlines these days, don't value any life, not even the innocent and not even their own.
Bowtied conservative Tucker Carlson is well aware of this Karen Hughes special:
Well, it's always disconcerting when something you write is received in a way you don't expect. I have no problem hurting someone's feelings -- obviously, I work on "Crossfire" -- but when you don't expect to, it's disconcerting. As I put in the book, the day before I filed the piece my wife asked, "Aren't people going to think you're sucking up?" And that was my concern, that people would think it's a suck-up piece.
And the response from team Bush?
It was very, very hostile. The reaction was: You betrayed us. Well, I was never there as a partisan to begin with.
Then I heard that [on the campaign bus, Bush communications director] Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard -- that I watched her hear -- she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane.
I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.
That's why numbers like these are so heartening:
Telling entire truth 20%
Mostly telling truth, but hiding something 56%
Mostly lying 20% [...]
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Many Bush Administration officials have testified before the 9/11 Commission, but Americans continue to believe the Administration may not be telling the entire truth about what it knew prior to September 11th regarding possible terror attacks against the U.S. 56 percent of Americans say the Administration is hiding something about what they knew prior to September 11, 24 percent say they are telling the entire truth, while 16 percent say they are mostly lying.
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