This one's the topper, all about how Bush is completely mischaracterizing any and all opposition to him and his disastrous policies, smearing Dems and patriots alike with sheer fabrications. Sheer lies.
Maybe you'll get chills like I did. Total courage, and I give credit to MSNBC, NBC News, NBC Universal and General Electric for airing it. The first link above is to the Crooks and Liars video, this one is to the transcript. The whole thing's a masterpiece that will be quoted in history books (mark my words!) but here's the horrorshow core of Keith's argument:
But tonight the stark question we must face is — why?
Why has the ferocity of your venom against the Democrats now exceeded the ferocity of your venom against the terrorists?
Why have you chosen to go down in history as the president who made things up?
In less than one month you have gone from a flawed call to unity to this clarion call to hatred of Americans, by Americans.
If this is not simply the most shameless example of the rhetoric of political hackery, then it would have to be the cry of a leader crumbling under the weight of his own lies.
We have, of course, survived all manner of political hackery, of every shape, size and party. We will have to suffer it, for as long as the Republic stands.
But the premise of a president who comes across as a compulsive liar is nothing less than terrifying.
There you have it. Finally, a journalist with the acumen and cajones to tell the world that President George W. Bush is a compulsive liar. Per Mental Health Matters:
Pathological lying, though, can be thought of as being associated with a select few psychiatric diagnoses, which normally have their onset during adolescence. Namely, these are Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder. In conduct disorder, it is common tosee lyingg, conning people and other forms of deceit. In Antisocial Personality Disorder, there is a pervasive pattern of disregard or the rights of others, and with this, the person with this disorder will often lie to get what they wish – usually money, sex or power.
Sound familiar?
It's wild when you think about it. Our President has a psychological disorder, and it's directly affected his day-to-day job as our President. Mark Foley seems creepy, sure, but Bush seems creepier still. With every new revelation of ineptitude, hubris and self-deception serial liars Rice, Rumsfeld and Cheney seem creepier and creepier.
You don't think House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) seems creepy as hell?
We're allowing insane people, certifiable, to run our county. Sociopaths, by dictionary definition. To quote, "These days, psychopathy is defined in psychiatry as a conditiocharacterizeded by lack of empathy or conscience, poor impulse control and manipulative behaviors."
The worst of it is that in essence, with the election of George W. Bush, our leadership was turned back a generation or two, similar to when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and VP Lyndon Baines Johnson took the Chief Executive job. With Nixon Administration vets Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld deciding U.S. foreign and military policy, to the point of getting Secretary of State Colin Powell fired, it's the early 1970's all over again, when the liar who had to resign was in office.
You don't believe all the Iraq-Vietnam War analogies? Then why the hell is the zombie of Henry Kissinger, slaughterer of countless innocent Southeast Asians who again failed to win the Vietnam War, walking the halls of the White House again? He's their most trusted non-staff advisor? In the world?
Oh, God, are we living through a Vietnam-type experience again because those three men can't get over having lost it the first time? Turn back the clock reactionary style?
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
The horror. The horror.
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