Bush Lied, People…Tried (To Ignore This BS)!
If you laid all the lies and fabrications about the Bush administration end to end, you’d, well, you’d have a typical daily edition of the New York Times:
Former DHS secretary Tom Ridge exposed himself as a weasel nearly two weeks ago when he allowed his publisher to gin up bogus book buzz with a false claim about the Bush administration pressuring him to alter homeland security alerts for political purposes.
He confirmed his weaseliness again in a USA Today interview published today, in which he walks back the sham allegation:
Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, speaking for the first time about accusations made in his new book, says he did not mean to suggest that other top Bush administration officials were playing politics with the nation’s security before the 2004 presidential election.
Last week, when word got out about Ridge’s accusations, Rumsfeld’s spokesman Keith Urbahn issued a statement calling them “nonsense.”
Now, Ridge says he did not mean to suggest he was pressured to raise the threat level, and he is not accusing anyone of trying to boost Bush in the polls. “I was never pressured,” Ridge said.
Actually, what Mr. Urban said was: “Stupid Boy”:
You stupid boy, oh, I’m the same old
Same old stupid boy
Yet more proof (though none is needed) of the Left’s discontent with debating the issues, instead resorting to distortions and inventions to make their point. It’s never enough to disagree, the other side must be WRONG. Morally, spiritually, cosmologically wrong. Then there’s nothing to debate.
Earl said,
August 31, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
What a wicked jackass!!
The book is out there, forever — in libraries, on bookshelves, etc.
His lying “explanation” will be forgotten in the next 15 minutes, as he well knows.
Merde….just merde.