For months we have endured the claptrap of Rush Limbaugh, Little Sean, and O'Lielly minimizing the damage done to the country by the outing of Valerie Plame. At times, the mainstream media has played right along, misreporting essential facts or just parroting the GOP spin. But Americans are not buying it:
The recent indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide has struck a nerve with the American public. Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Pew noted that in September 1998, 65 percent said President Clinton's lies under oath were important.
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Most Americans, six in 10, say they do not think the news about Libby's indictment has gotten too much coverage.
Finally, our citizens are seeing that lying about sperm is not nearly as important as lying about national security. And they want to know more.
Via AMERICAblog
More Americans think Bushco lied about Iraq:
The concerns about Libby's case come at a time that a growing number of people, 43 percent, now say U.S. and British leaders were mostly lying when they claimed before the Iraq war that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, while an equal number said they were misinformed by bad intelligence.
That's up from 31 percent who felt in February 2004 that the leaders were lying, while 49 percent said they got bad intelligence.
Bush is toast. His agenda is dead. His political capital spent. Americans are seeing through the tissue of lies that supports him.
Pew Poll Results
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