Clift: Biggest Lies of 2005

[liberal N proud]

Big Lies
Who told the worst political untruth of 2005? It’s a shame the list of contenders is so long.
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Updated: 6:51 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2005
Dec. 22, 2005 - Every holiday season, we on "The McLaughlin Group" hand out news awards. Some categories, like "Biggest Winner," are easy (My choice was Chief Justice John Roberts, with the oil companies as runner-up). Others are a struggle to fill, like who to insult with the “Overrated” award.

In compiling this year’s list, I had the highest number of entries for the category, “Biggest Lie.” I chose the White House declaration that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby had nothing to do with leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent. They were the principal participants in the effort to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson because he had raised doubts about one of the pillars of their argument for war, namely that Iraq had tried to buy yellowcake uranium to make a bomb.

List of the lies can be found at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10578257/site/newsweek/

Didn't see any thing but Bush regime lies in the article

[ComerPerro]

1. Funny to see in print, but I didn't care for the article

it just kinda ended, no resolution or conclusion, no final thought or anything. It just stopped.

Oh well. Maybe I'm being too anal...

[acmejack]

2. Oh, no you're being realistic!

Ms. Clift, perennial * booster must have hated to pen this piece. I am sure she couldn't bear to draw a conclusion, as it would have meant facing her role in all this deception. I watch the McLaughlin Group just to be disgusted by the spin.

[ComerPerro]

3. LOL. Good point

[pretzel4gore]

4. newsweek, clift, mclaughlin group

are all part of same fraud, run by same treasonous mentality. saying 'they are traitors who need quick trial then a peaceful night on death row' (no torture, though it might be useful in these cases(?)) again and again may seem overstatement made monotonous, but if clift thinks that she is an objective observer it is not true (maybe clift can be forgiven, given her lack of choices, but she must never be involved with 'mass media' again, being a vital party to the fraud)
notice they skip by the biggest lie of all; that bush ever won an election and has ever had legal right to fukk up the country....

[NJmaverick]

5. Good to see this kind of article

Hitting the main stream media. We need more of the same.