WTF Is It Now?!?

President's outright lying raises questions of columnist's choice of lubricant
Oh, for the love of crap, Howie, you whore.

Did the president of the United States make a rare admission on national television that he had told an untruth? Or had he merely engaged in a dodge of the sort that is common in politics? Journalists by nature shy from pinning the "liar" label on any political leader, {Unless that leader's name is "Bill Clinton." - Ed.} but President Bush's acknowledgments that he had not been forthcoming about his plans to dump Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have kicked up a fuss at the White House and sparked a debate about the limits of presidential evasion.

Blah blah blah. Is there a bigger, more pathetic douchenozzle than the WaComPo's wHoward Kurtz? He goes thru a lot of evasion and purty words, but when you come right down to it, Bush stood in front of the nation and lied. Again.

Six days before the election, Bush told reporters in an interview that Rumsfeld was doing a "fantastic" job.

"You see [him] staying with you until the end?" asked Terence Hunt of the Associated Press.

"I do," Bush replied.

"So you're expecting Rumsfeld, Secretary Rumsfeld, to stay on the rest of your time here?" asked Steve Holland of Reuters.

"Yes, I am," the president said.

The rest, like Howie's clean new white underpants, is history.

Fun fact: Jebus McLiar has been planning to fire Rumsfeld since late summer, the NY Times reports.

- m