Dick Cheney spoke at CPAC Thursday, uttering some of the most blatant falsehoods / fantasies imaginable. Hunter captures the phenomenon:Cheney doesn't believe in merely denying reality, he believes in pinning it down, attaching electrodes to it, then just clubbing it to death for fun.
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It's interesting, because once again one would think it would be a key component of rational public discourse for people to, indeed, call him out on his happy, camouflage-colored delusions. But it's somehow off-limits, in the press, to point out when a public official is an unmitigated, reality-sodomizing liar.
Read it all here.
UPDATE (about two minutes after original post):
While we are on the subject of egregious falsehoods, check BarbinMD's brief bit on George Bush in tornado land. What mental pathologies allow him to utter such things?
--the BB
2 comments:
The good news about Cheney is that the cable news channels did not even carry his speech live. They were busy covering the "moderate" Republican speeches.
The bad news is that Cheney is going hunting at the Armstrong ranch again. It's like shooting fish in a barrel, but, if you remember, (and I'm sure you do) he managed to miss the quails and hit a man in the face.
Yes, I did read some of Bush's comments at the sites of the tornadoes. There's pathology enough there to support psychological studies enough for several lifetime works for specialists. Maybe we can persuade Dennis to take on such a study.
GM, it needs to be done but I would hate to wish prolonged exposure on our friend Dennis.
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