Every time I think I'm out of surprise, I'm surprised

[solarbird]

Courtesy Slog, mostly:

The Republican Message Machine: George W. Bush Was Not President on September 11, 2001.

"We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term." - former Bush administration spokesperson Dana Perino, Fox News. Unchallenged, of course.

"I was there. We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history. And President Bush dealt with it." Mary Matalin, former Bush administration staff, on CNN. Again, unchallenged.

September 11, 2001: Bill Clinton was apparently still president. The anthrax mailings: apparently never happened. Astonishing.

Comments

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

"Thou shalt not bear false witness"

Seems like this bit is one of the parts of the Bible they have a bit of a blind spot over.

[darkphoenixrisn.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow.

[ginmar.livejournal.com]

I...uh....What the fucking fuck of fuck?

[brigidsblest.livejournal.com]

*blink blink* Does Gore know this?

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

NewHistory. They are very good at it. Soon the whole RightWingNuts will know these facts are true. Just as Obama was born in Kenya and that he is a communist nazi muslim (tm).
Hopefully, the more they do this, the more their clothes will disappear.
Most people are very gullible, but they hate being made out as fools.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

""I was there. We inherited a recession from President Clinton and we inherited the most tragic attack on our own soil in our nation's history. And President Bush dealt with it.""

The Slog commenter who pointed out that this was most likely a slip of the tongue (ie, inherited recession, *had* attack, Bush dealt) was probably right, especially since it seems to be from a not-fully-edited transcript.

The other one from context seems to be more like 'he kept things from happening since 9/11', which is irritating b/c of course more people than just the President are involved in security, and right, there was never any public closure of the anthrax thing [or if it had an origin internal or external to the US?], though I think many people think of it as part of that general Sept 11th-ish climate of awfulness.

Who was president during the Timothy McVeigh bombing?

Plus (and more to the point for me), who gloats about attacks and people being killed, jeez.

[pentane.livejournal.com]

Not much worse than the distortions I see over healthcare, among many other topics, from the left.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

This is why I don't watch TV or read the "mainstream" news.

It's all a bunch of crap.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

He's too busy being a serial liar, unlike these people who kept tarring him w/that particular lie, don'tcha know. ::rolls eyes::

Horse Nostrils.

[flirtaciousj.livejournal.com]

I love the "oh YEAH! Well they're WORSE!" defense. Blech.

I'll just say I wouldn't go raising distortions over healthcare as a salient defense point for the current crowd of Republicans. That's the issue that finally drove my Dad out of the party, and he's a member of the NRA who voted for Nixon three times (1960, 1968 and 1972).

Re: Horse Nostrils.

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

Sadly, nobody thought to rig the American system of government to favor sane and responsible people being elected -- maybe it's impossible. 'To wit,' there are batshit-crazy people in the halls of power on both sides.

It's good for a laugh when they slip up. Fear and horror too, but laughter and pity are easier to deal with internally.