Friday, July 6, 2007
News Boortz lies about lying
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Fri, Jul 6, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Six-and-a-half years of cheerleading a disastrous presidency seems to have exhausted self-proclaimed talkmeister Neal Boortz's ability to spew artful spin on the White House's behalf.
Yesterday, to defend President Bush's commutation of felon Scooter Libby's jail sentence, Boortz didn't even try to spin. He just flat-out lied.
Said the self-proclaimed talkmeister to a caller: "Scooter Libby and Bill Clinton got sentenced and convicted for exactly the same crime."
When the caller pointed out the falsehood, Boortz repeated it: "We're talking about a criminal trial, sir. The verdict was guilty. He was disbarred as a result of that verdict."
Boortz is lying.
Bill Clinton was impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate. It was not a criminal trial, nor did it result in a conviction.
Clinton was indeed disbarred for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky, first in Arkansas, then by the Supreme Court, but that was the result of a deal with special prosecutor Robert Ray that precluded criminal charges.
Boortz was an attorney before he was a Bush-lackey. He knows better.
(Thank you to Doug "Reverse Carpetbagger" Monroe for the Media Matters link.)
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Boortz admitted he was wrong... http://boortz.com/nuze/200707/07062007.html#wrong
Poor Andisheh .... doesn't understand the definition of "lie." Boortz cleared it up on his show today .... now you're looking like a fool. Da Duffer
How sad that liberals are in such a need to make themselves feel smart that they need to pounce on such a minor issue. Good game! p.s. Mr. Boortz says negative things about President Bush daily p.s.s. Thanks to President Bush thousands of Islamic Terrorists have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan - not on our soil. That's far from "disastrous" in my eyes.
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