Rick Davis: The last 8 years encapsulated

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Rick Davis: The last 8 years encapsulated

It’s simply not possible to lie more deliberately or flagrantly than this:

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis on Fox News this morning, when asked by Chris Wallace about the Troopergate report issued on Friday:

The reality is there was absolutely no wrongdoing found in the report — 1,000 pages — an enormous waste of time — and the best they could come up with was: no violations of any kinds of laws or ethics rules.

From the Report — the very first finding — page 8 (.pdf):



There’s no lie too brazen. There’s not a modicum of personal responsibility or acknowledgment of wrongdoing. Even bipartisan, unanimous investigations that result in adverse findings of wrongdoing are smeared and dismissed away (Davis: ”kangaroo court” — “big public circus” — ”this now drops dead and there’ll be no follow-up at all”). Chris Wallace, who is actually more decent as an interviewer than most of his colleagues, interrupted and confronted Davis with his lie — “No, it said she violated the state Ethics laws” — but Davis just persisted as brazenly as before with the lie. That’s a perfect snapshot for what we’ve had the last eight years.

— Glenn Greenwald

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/12/davis/index.html

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1. apparently, we are now a nation of lying psychotics

that doesn't bode well for our survival.