Wednesday, May 24, 2006 
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Here's a selection of the lies propagated by the Right in the last few years:

  • Iraq sent its WMDs to Syria.
  • Democrats don't want to wiretap terrorists.
  • Mexicans are taking our jobs.
  • Scooter Libby has a faulty memory.
  • Tom DeLay is like Jesus Christ.
  • No one could have anticipated that the levees would be breached.
  • We do not torture.
  • There is no global warming.
  • There is global warming, but humans didn't cause it.
  • John F. Kerry is a flip-flopper.
  • George W. Bush is a decider.
  • Nobody at the White House knows Jack Abramoff.
  • Evolution isn't supported by the facts.
  • Diebold voting machines are secure.
  • Fox News is fair and balanced.
  • Mission accomplished.
  • No one could have anticipated the Iraqi insurgency.
  • The budget deficit will be cut in half in four years.
  • Anyone who thinks Dubai shouldn't control our ports is racist.
  • No one who thinks we should build a wall along the Mexican border is racist.
  • Terry Schiavo wants to live.
  • We've turned a corner in Iraq.
  • There's a war on Christmas.
  • There's no civil war in Iraq.
  • The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
  • Bush won Florida in 2000.
  • Bush won Ohio in 2004.
  • We support open, free, and fair elections ... for the Ukraine.
  • I earned political capital... and I intend to spend it.
  • Losing by 2 million votes in 2000 is a mandate.
  • Winning by 3 million votes in 2004 is a mandate.
  • The grownups will now be in charge.
  • Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
  • Kathleen Blanco never asked for federal help.
  • Moral values voters.
  • The earth is 6,000 years old.
  • We're not interested in banning contraceptives.
  • Bush flew F-102s in the Texas Air National Guard.
  • Bush is a compassionate conservative.
  • John Kerry "outed" Mary Cheney
  • John Kerry shot himself in the leg to earn his medals
  • Al Gore thinks he invented the internet.
  • Bill Clinton was once offered Bin Laden "on a silver platter" and turned it down.
  • Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11.
  • 9/11 changed everything.
  • No one could have anticipated airplanes flying into buildings.
  • We have removed the Taliban from Afghanistan.
  • The Iraqis will welcome us with open arms and flowers...
  • Yellow magnetic car ribbons really help the troops.
  • We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.
  • Iraqi oil will pay for the war and the reconstruction.
  • Gas prices are high because of librul environmental regulations.
  • Drilling the ANWR will lower the price of oil.
  • The 'magic of the marketplace' will solve all problems.
  • Unemployment numbers have never been so low.
  • By far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum.
  • Tax cuts increase revenue.
  • The estate tax hurts family farms.
  • Private Accounts will save Social Security.
  • No Child Left Behind will help all children.
  • Healthy Skies Initiative will reduce air pollution.
  • Republicans are compassionate conservatives.
  • Dissent is unpatriotic.
  • You're either with us, or against us.
  • All options are on the table.
  • Republicans are the party of ideas.
  • These are not assertions. These are facts backed up by solid intelligence.
  • Terri Schiavo is responsive. (Bill Frist on the Senate floor).
  • I never said she was responsive (Bill Frist, about a week later).
  • Anyone who leaks information will no longer be part of this administration.
  • Harriet would be a great justice. I know her heart.
  • Terrorists didn't know we could use wiretaps until they read about it in the paper.
  • I will restore honor and integrity to the White House.
  • I'm a uniter, not a divider.
  • The 'CEO' President.
  • If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
  • If gays are allowed to marry then heterosexual men will leave their wives.
  • Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
  • "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

A much fuller list can be found at AmericaBlog.