Lies, lies and more lies
Bookworm on Apr 08 2009 at 3:31 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
In the lead-up to the election, I wrote about Obama’s lies — these are lies that are exposed by hard contemporaneous evidence (videos, photos, documents), but that Obama boldly told anyway, bolstered both by his own narcissistic approach to truth (“the truth is what I say it is”) and by a media anxious to see him elected. That hasn’t changed. Brutally Honest points out that, all video evidence to the contrary, the White House is now contending that Obama was just trying to bring his face down to the level of the much shorter Saudi ruler’s face.
Interestingly, Obama did not feel compelled to make this gesture for the even shorter Queen of England — and we’ve got the video to prove it:
I’ve got a little trio of quotations to explain exactly what’s happening here:
There’s a sucker born every minute.
– P.T. Barnum
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
– Abraham Lincoln
… in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X
And no, I’m not saying that Obama is Hitler, because I’m not accusing him of committing genocide against large groups of people or of using the instruments of war to take over the world. Those are, after all, the reasons that calling someone a Hitler is such an insult.
Certainly, though, to the extent Hitler was a master propagandist with an intuitive grasp of moving the mob, Obama too seems to recognize useful techniques for abandoning the truth in service of a more personal, Obama-esque goal.
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Clintonesque (UPDATED)…
I did not have sexual relations bow with that woman to that Saudi King: The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism……
Yeah, that’s a rich one. If Obama had bowed any lower he could have been at the level not of the monarch’s face but his scrotum. It as Groucho Marx once said: “Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
I can’t believe that nobody here has caught the obvious reason why Obama bowed to the king.
Have you ever placed a photo of Michelle and the king side by side?
I rest my case.
So I’ve been waiting for the Administration’s explanation for WHY President Obama bowed to a foreign king (and a Muslim king).
So I’ve received my answer from that Administration: “What bow?”
Picture a boy in the kitchen, cookie jar engulfing his arm up to the elbow: “What cookie jar?” he says to his glaring mom.
They know that their best explanation – even if a lie! – is to simply admit that it was a mistake. But that would then require at least an implicit apology to the American People for his denigration of the Office Of The President. And that the Chosen One actually made a mistake.
We all know that this administration refuses to admit any sort of mistake. And while they do apologize, and with great frequency! – their apologies are for the mistakes of other presidents, or of America before Obama. They’ll never apologize for Obama.
The administration takes its cues from Obama. He has no sense of humor nor humility. Therefore, nor does his administration. He has no sense of history and he believes he stands apart from history. That he can actually cheat cause and effect in economics, in politics, in geopolitical reality, even. Therefore, so does his administration.
Pride goeth before a fall. Great pride goeth before a great fall.
Unfortunately, MikeD, he’ll bring all of us crashing down with him.
He has learned that he can get away with it, so he will continue to do it so long as there is no cost.
However, I should think that they could come up with something a little more inventive. Just off the top of my head; “he wasn’t bowing. King Ab has the largest diamond ring the BigO has ever seen and he was taking a closer look”.
No integrity. No imagination. No clue.
No, no no, Book. It was Bush that lied and the virtuous Dems that called him on it!
>>No integrity. No imagination. No clue.>>
Heh! That’s pretty funny, Oldflyer…!!
I know you remember all those times the Dems accused us of lying and supporting liars. Oh how many times I have seen people defend Bush or the Iraq War as truths and not lies, because we detest lies. But the Dems, they don’t care about defending themselves or proving that what they say is true. WHy?
Because they don’t give a damn and never did, about lies.