The New Road

Ralph Reed - Liar

Ralph Reed was on the Daily Show on Tuesday (9/28/04). He was once the head of the Christian Coalition, now he is the Bush campaign manager for the southeast. He is also a liar.

Ralph Reed from the Daily Show interview:

"On page 66 of the 9/11 report it documents that in the spring of 99 he sent Intelligence to the Pakistani Afghan border and invited Osama Bin Laden to come to Baghdad."

Nope. That's not on this page, or any other page. It never happened. Though thoughtfully he did point out the page 66 where the 9/11 does commission say:

"...to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carring out any attacks against the United States."

The truth is actually much more compelling. Compelling... against the President.

As usual, statements by Republicans claiming facts and quoting sources are invariably simple lies or distortions once you take the time look them up. But that doesn't matter because they assume that their constituents will get all of their information from Rush Limbaugh or Fox News which would never call them liars, or would even repeat the lies for them.

And even when they do get caught in a lie they can just say they misspoke or that it was unintentional and they are really good men. In other words, it's ok for Christian Evangelicals to lie because down deep they are at least good Christians.

Whatever happened to fact checking? What ever happened to the good, old fashioned truth? I thought this administration was supposed to a turn away from what they considered to be the lying of the Clinton administration.