The politics of fraud
Paul Greenberg comments on the dishonesty of attacks against President Bush.
"...Some of the more vociferous attacks on George W. Bush are simply fraudulent. Like the assertion that the president had warned "that the threat to the United States was imminent." (To quote an ad placed by MoveOn.Org, a k a TrashBush.Org. )
"That accusation has become a staple of the anti-Bush camp. As in: "We were told by this president that Saddam Hussein constituted an imminent threat to our security. Bunk." — Robert W. Byrd, senior senator and pre-eminent gasbag from West Virginia.
"Actually, the point of the president's last State of the Union was not that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat — but that to wait until he became one would be to wait too long."
"Others have edited the president's remarks to conform to their own misimpressions. The most brazen has been the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, who used an ellipsis to make nonsense of something the president had said about the threat posed by al Qaeda ... and then criticized him for speaking nonsense. Neat."
Paul Greenberg comments on the dishonesty of attacks against President Bush.
"...Some of the more vociferous attacks on George W. Bush are simply fraudulent. Like the assertion that the president had warned "that the threat to the United States was imminent." (To quote an ad placed by MoveOn.Org, a k a TrashBush.Org. )
"That accusation has become a staple of the anti-Bush camp. As in: "We were told by this president that Saddam Hussein constituted an imminent threat to our security. Bunk." — Robert W. Byrd, senior senator and pre-eminent gasbag from West Virginia.
"Actually, the point of the president's last State of the Union was not that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat — but that to wait until he became one would be to wait too long."
"Others have edited the president's remarks to conform to their own misimpressions. The most brazen has been the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, who used an ellipsis to make nonsense of something the president had said about the threat posed by al Qaeda ... and then criticized him for speaking nonsense. Neat."
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