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- Important issues? You decide.
"Bill Clinton lies about big things and does it very well; Al Gore lies about little things and does it very badly. None of his fibs really amount to much, but they remind voters of what they don't like about Clinton. With Bush, voters see a decent, likable, and truthful candidate, but they're not sure he's up to the job."
-- Charlie Cook, National Journal
- Bush Lies, Media Swallows - Yet they called Clinton a liar every day.
- Bush’s Lies are Broadcast as Truth - But not Clinton’s
- Bush Vs. Clinton on the economy - A visual perspective.
- Bush Gets a Free Ride - Again and Again
- Rose: The White House lied - The ABC News report reveals a White House so depraved that it makes Clinton seem like a choir boy.
- Bare Those Knuckles - ‘Substitute Bill Clinton for Bush over the past six months...’
Character Witness - To conservatives, the Bush administration is everything its predecessor was not: decent, ethical, honest. It doesn't abuse government power or the public trust. As Wall Street Journal columnist and presidential hagiographer Peggy Noonan has put it, "Bush brings character to the table." - That's the claim. Here's the record over the last eight months: What did Dubya do in the war, daddy? - ‘His records show that for months at a time during the Vietnam War, Bush could be classified as, at best, "absent without leave" (AWOL) or, at worst, as an army deserter.’ -’This would be equivalent to the media withholding comment as former U.S. President Bill Clinton publicly espoused the virtues of marital fidelity.’ - ‘ the media all but ignored the story and continue to do so, even as Bush has turned himself into arguably the most hawkish president in U.S. history. Where's The Outrage? - ‘Now I know how Republicans felt in 1998. Back then, the pursuers of Bill Clinton could simply not believe that the public was not rising up in rebellion against a president who had received Oval Office blow jobs from an employee and then lied about it. But the economy was zipping along, and the polls showed that a large majority of Americans approved of the Clinton's (official) performance in the White House.’ - ‘Today the outrage gap is on the other foot. Bush has been misleading the public about critical elements of his presidency, and yet there has been no outcry.‘ Bush May Have Exaggerated, but Did He Lie? - The hunt for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq has been fruitless. The tax cut turns out to give no break whatsoever to millions of low-income taxpayers. In the view of some Democrats, President Bush has been lying about these and other matters, the way Lyndon B. Johnson lied about Vietnam, Richard M. Nixon about Watergate and Bill Clinton about his sex life. - TVNL comment: Notice the issues lied about! Which ones are vital to the nation? Who are the victims in each case? Senators Reluctant to Criticize Bush on Iraqi Weapons - Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee say they are not aware of any specific evidence that President George W. Bush intentionally misled the public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program in the weeks and months leading up to the war on Iraq. - TVNL points out: It is their damn job to investigate this!!! “They are not aware of any specific evidence!” What the hell is that? Do I really have to explain how outrageous this is? Did thay say that about Clinton’s sexcapade? The Most Dangerous Lie - The most dangerous lies are told in what the liars imagine to be the service of a Greater Truth. These "Greater Truths" must be striven for covertly because they go so far beyond what is publicly acceptable that they can't be defended openly. BOOT BUSH, TONY - PM warned he will be election 'target' - TONY Blair has been told he must distance himself from President Bush. - "With Clinton the right-wing was always trying to undermine him. Part of it involved a Conservative press that infected the atmosphere. Some of that exists here in Britain." - TVNL comment: The rest of the world can clearly see the US’ conservative press. Note there is no mention of a liberal media? Did Bush defender show deference to Clinton, too? - Ms. Sparks further asks, "What happened to respect for the leaders of our country, regardless of opinions?" Perhaps I missed Ms. Sparks' letters defending Mr. Clinton when impeachment talks brewed years earlier when Americans were employed and at peace, but I suspect that she and most other current supporters of Mr. Bush were mute in this respect. Frustrated Democrats complain of media bias - Democrats in Congress claim the mainstream print and broadcast media are giving the Bush administration and Republican leaders on the Hill a free ride. - These lawmakers complain that the press holds President Bush to a much lower standard of accountability than it did President Clinton. Bush’s predecessor weathered such media firestorms as Whitewater, Travelgate, and Monica Lewinsky The press gives Bush a free ride on his lies - I’M GLAD THAT the press is finally making an issue of President Bush's knowing use of a faked intelligence report on Iraq's supposed nuclear weapons program. But most of the press keeps missing the behind or who actually benefits from the tax cuts or what kind of drug coverage the administration's Medicare amendments will really provide or how the Bush Clear Skies Act actually degrades clean-air standards, the press has given the administration an astonishingly free ride. Entertainer banned after Bush remark - Apparently, it's become un-American--or at least highly controversial--for a woman to publicly say that the president of the United States' body is less than perfect. - TVNL comment: It was OK to tell jokes about Clinton’s genitals but if you mention Bush you get fired! Lies, Oaths, and High Crimes - First, they said it wasn’t the sex, it was the lying. - Then they said it wasn’t the lying, it was the lying under oath.- And with that pant-load of pseudo-logic, the right wingnuts excoriated, vilified, and tripped over each other impeaching Clinton for lying about his oral dalliances with ‘that woman’. ‘Is’ became a word searching for meaning, Ken Starr made a fortune, but found nothing, and we learned way too much about Bill Clinton’s stamped package, secondary uses for cigars, and spunk-stained dresses. Why Bush, GOP can block all inquiries - The urge to investigate defined the capital during the Clinton years. But no more. - Not since the early years of Lyndon Johnson's tenure has a president had more breathing room. Yo George…I'm Calling You Out!!! - Bill Clinton is a guy I think I might have hung out with back then. He's not afraid to sling on a pair of dark shades and grab a sax and wail to a beat that moves his soul. I can't say the same for George Bush. When was the last time we ever saw George W. Bush move his ass to any kind of beat at all? I mean the man squints in the 110 degree Texas sun rather than shade his eyes. What does that tell you? Calling a Lie a Lie - The dicey dynamics of exposing untruths - For all that, Bush's lying has yet to metastasize into a full-fledged scandal, and it may not. And that seems peculiar — not just because of Bush's track record, but also because the press normally will make hay of anything approximating a political lie. - To the axiom that journalists love lies, however, there's one important corollary — and it helps explain Bush's Teflon coating. Reporters like only certain lies. Perversely, those tend to be the relatively trivial ones, involving personal matters: Clinton's deceptions about his sex life; Al Gore's talk of having inspired Love Story; John Kerry's failure to correct misimpressions that he's Irish. Here, the press can strut its skepticism without positioning itself ideologically. Are the News Media Soft on Bush? - That much-ballyhooed “liberal press” hasn’t been nearly as tough on President Bush as it was on his predecessor. One key reason: Bush’s controversies have involved policy rather than personal peccadilloes, and the media have a much bigger appetite for the latter. But does the weapons of mass destruction flap presage a shift? A Dislike Unlike Any Other? - Writer Jonathan Chait Brings Bush-Hating Out of the Closet - It's Bush's radical policies, says the 31-year-old New Republic writer, and his unfair tax cuts, and his cowboy phoniness, and his favors for corporate cronies, and his heist in Florida, and his dishonesty about his silver-spoon upbringing, and, oh yes, the way he walks and talks. - Mainstream journalism, with its traditional parameters, has somehow failed to connect with the notion that there are lots of Americans who walk around sputtering about Dubya -- despite fairly healthy approval ratings for a third-year incumbent. The press was filled with stories about Clinton-haters, but Bush-hating is either more restrained or more out of control, depending on who's keeping score. 'No President has lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably' - "The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute it, it's never the same. Your credibility never recovers. - "Watching what has happened with Iraq over the past several months has been like watching your daughter being raped." - "Now we know that no other President of the United States has ever lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably ... The presumption now has to be that he's lying any time that he's saying anything." The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush - If this had happened to Clinton when he was in the White House, do you think the story would have been covered non-stop on FOX, CNN and the right-wing talk shows? Do you think we'd have reporters asking Clinton and his people about this death in press conferences? Is FOX unfair and imbalanced to the point of being "deranged?" The Little America Man - Bill Clinton was a dedicated internationalist. On each trip abroad, he would take a visible delight in meeting foreigners, being introduced to their culture and in eating their food. As his many speeches in office — and the things he is now saying — make clear, his concerns were essentially global. - You need only see how Bush behaves when he is abroad to realise that he has no interest in being the world’s policeman. His agenda is limited to being a vigilante fighting for American interests for an audience of American voters. - At the simplest level, you see this when he travels: the huge entourages, the complete lack of any contact with locals, and the rhetoric aimed only at those watching him on TV back home. Conservatives simmer as spending mushrooms under Bush - While Bush has emphasized repeatedly the need to rein in spending, overall federal expenditures have grown to an estimated $2.31 trillion for the budget year that started Oct. 1. That is up from $1.86 trillion in President Clinton's final year, a rate of growth not seen for any three-year period since 1989 to 1991.- TVNL Comment: Not seen since the last Bush was in office! The Real Man - By my count, this year's budget contains 27 glossy photos of Mr. Bush. We see the president in front of a giant American flag, in front of the Washington Monument, comforting an elderly woman in a wheelchair, helping a small child with his reading assignment, building a trail through the wilderness and, of course, eating turkey with the troops in Iraq. Somehow the art director neglected to include a photo of the president swimming across the Yangtze River. - It was not ever thus. Bill Clinton's budgets were illustrated with tables and charts, not with worshipful photos of the president being presidential.
Maybe this is all that needs to be said:
This is a response I received from a reader on 06-April-2003. I simply had to show this to you:
“When PRESIDENT GW BUSH lies it is for the good of the NATION and not to cover up his affair with a slutty bimbo like Clinton did.”
I do not even know how to react to this.
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