I decided to take a quick break from my usual habit of watching inane reality TV programmes and tuned into the press conference that George Bush gave yesterday after the thumping that the Republican party received at the hands of the Democrats. Dubya as eloquent as ever came out with the following corker about the sacking resignation of Donald Rumsfeld.
Question: Thank you, Mr. President. Last week you told us that Secretary Rumsfeld will be staying on. Why is the timing right now for this, and how much does it have to do with the election results?
Dubya: Right. No, you and Hunt and Keil came in the Oval Office, and Hunt asked me the question one week before the campaign, and basically it was, are you going to do something about Rumsfeld and the Vice President? And my answer was, they’re going to stay on. And the reason why is I didn’t want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign. And so the only way to answer that question and to get you on to another question was to give you that answer.
In other words, Dubya admitted that he lied to get out of answering a tricky question. So I guess it’s official, politicians tell lies. Unfortunately, none of the assembled hacks there came out with the obvious follow up question:
If you are willing to tell a bare faced lie in order to get through an interview, why should we (or anyone else for that matter) believe anything you say to us now?
I guess that would have just been too rude.
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