Dick Morris admits he fabricated story on Clinton, Reno and Waco

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004210006

Morris admits he fabricated story on Clinton, Reno and Waco

April 21, 2010 8:51 am ET by Julie Millican


Appearing on Hannity on April 19, Dick Morris dropped a bombshell claim that has "never been said before," that in 1997 then-Attorney General Janet Reno threatened Bill Clinton that if he did not reappoint her as Attorney General she was "going to tell the truth about Waco." He very specifically claimed that "Clinton told me -- that I couldn't not appoint Reno because she would have turned on me over Waco. That's the phrase he used." At the time, Media Matters' Brian Frederick pointed out that Morris' new story contradicted the previous version of events Morris offered in his 2004 book, Because He Could, in which Morris merely speculated that it "may well have been" that Reno was "demanding reappointment as her price for taking the fall for Waco." Brian asked: "Did Dick Morris fabricate new Clinton-Reno-Waco story?"

Turns out he did. This morning, Fox & Friends gave Morris the opportunity to discuss his "bombshell" story, and Morris quickly walked back his story by attempting to separate "the facts from" his "conjecture based on the facts."

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To recap, on Monday, Morris said that "Clinton told" him that he "couldn't not appoint Reno because she would have turn on" Clinton "over Waco," saying specifically: "That's the phrase he used." Two days later, Morris backpedals and says that Clinton "didn't actually say that," and that what Clinton actually told him was "she asked me to reappoint her for at least a year because if I didn't, people would think that I was blaming her for Waco." Given Morris' history of distorting, contradicting, and -- dare I say -- lying about the Clintons, why should we ever trust anything this man ever says?

[Bluzmann57]

1. Morris is an attention whore

If he doesn't get any attention, he will do something to draw it. Even if it means making things up.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. He was at one time a womanizer. There was allot of stories on him. In the end

he was no better than Clinton. He is the pot calling the kettle black.

[vssmith]

19. He must have paid for it because he surely could not attract a woman

[MBS]

2. WOW.n/t

[fugop]

3. What a Dick. nt

[WeDidIt]

4. Too late, the big lie is already out there

Freepers now state with absolute authority that Bill Clinton told dick Morris he personally orchestrated the Waco killings.

Seriously, that's how these half wits think.

It's like somebody saying that Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Now, on Free Republic, questioning that "fact" gets you zotted, even if you've been a Freeper since day one.

Once somebody lies about shit that meets their world view, it is officially gospel that cannot be argued against, even when you show the retraction of the lie by the liar. Their claim will be "mediamatters is liberal".

[babylonsister]

5. Yes, it's a pattern. Spew a lie, take it back after it's infiltrated

the small little minds out there who accept what they hear from certain people as gospel. I bet rushbo never mentions this retraction today.

[Jennicut]

10. Hey, they threw stuff out there on Kerry that wasn't true but it stuck.

They know what they are doing.

[JohnnyLib2]

7. Can we bring back hara-kiri?

[Junkie Brewster]

8. What an asshole

Seriously. A complete and total human rectum.

[marshall]

9. Dick better watch his back!

One doesn't throw around wild accusations like that without paying the consequences.

[HCE1947]

11. Morris is sleazy

Why should be be surprised by this? Morris is a sleazemeister, so he has found a good home on Fox.

[11 Bravo]

12. The only time Morris is not lying is when he has a mouth full of hooker toes.

[Captain Hilts]

20. Ah, yes, the Jefferson Hotel 'incident'. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Dick Morris

[Hippo_Tron]

14. To quote Jon Stewart

"In Dick Morris' defense, he is a lying sack of shit."

[Blue_Tires]

15. kick

[yellowcanine]

16. "..why should we ever trust anything this man (Toesucker) ever says? Heh,

I know this was a rhetorical question, but the answer is Hell no, we should not!

[progressoid]

17. The sun rises in the east.

Dick Morris lies.

[Redemption Seeker]

18. The Biggest Dick of the Clinton Administration

Funny how the very same right that demanded (and got) the President's impeachment now readily embraces this bulging bucket of sleaze!

[Beacool]

21. Dick's name fits him to a "T".

He is nothing but a prick. Morris hates the Clintons and has spent years talking trash about them. Also, according to the hooker he frequented, the toe sucking jerk used to fantasize about Hillary. Yuck!!!

:puke: