The Fact-Checker, by Michael Dobbs

you ought to include your own conclusions ,especially with the canidates you don't support

Has someone forgot President Bush when he stated Illegals only take jobs americans don't want? What a whopper that was.

My dual nomination:

"Mexico's gross domestic product, now more than $875 billion, has more than quadrupled since 1987."

--Washington Post editorial, December 3, 2007.

and

"So take your pick. Depending on the statistics you use, Mexican economic growth over the last two decades has been either 337 percent, 125 percent, or 83 percent."

Michael Dobbs, December 7

Two eye witnesses and four historical books have surfaced that deliver this message:

"Any doubts on this score were dispelled on July 23, 1963 when a massive civil rights demonstration lead by Reverend King took place in Detroit. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people participated, about 90 per cent of them black...Mayor Cavanagh, Governor George Romney, and Walter Reuther were among the prominent whites marching with Reverend King."

http://books.google.com/books?id=Fa_f3oz0Q2kC&pg=PA487&dq=%22Governor+George+Romney%22+%26+King&lr=&sig=GWo5eaPFVy1dyIMgA4eVSPCrQ14

So every candidate has lied, but the "congenital liar." I guess fair and balanced went out the window.

There are 'fibs', and there are illegal coverups. From the London Times: The Justice Department has launched its own inquiry into the destruction of the tapes. It emerged yesterday that the CIA had misled members of the 9-11 Commission by not disclosing the existence of the tapes, in potential violation of the law. President George W Bush said last week he could not recall learning about the tapes before being briefed about them on December 6 by Michael Hayden, the CIA director.

"It looks increasingly as though the decision was made by the White House," said Johnson. He believes it is "highly likely" that Bush saw one of the videos, as he was interested in Zubaydah's case and received frequent updates on his interrogation from George Tenet, the CIA director at the time.

The Justice Department has launched its own inquiry into the destruction of the tapes. It emerged yesterday that the CIA had misled members of the 9-11 Commission by not disclosing the existence of the tapes, in potential violation of the law. President George W Bush said last week he could not recall learning about the tapes before being briefed about them on December 6 by Michael Hayden, the CIA director.

"It looks increasingly as though the decision was made by the White House," said Johnson. He believes it is "highly likely" that Bush saw one of the videos, as he was interested in Zubaydah's case and received frequent updates on his interrogation from George Tenet, the CIA director at the time.

Bush is in a catagory all His Own. He has told so many Lies that the real question should be, "Which of the Whoppers told by Bush killed the most People?" I'm aware all Presidents Lie but Bush seems to prefer lying to telling the truth. The old adage that "some People would rather lie than tell the truth, even if the truth sounded better" is a perfect description of George W.

I think the Fact Checker is full of it. The NAFTA Superhighway will/will happen. The process is already underway. Dummy up!

Biggest Lie of 2007????

That the Washington Post is checking facts for anything more than entertainment purposes.

The Washington Post is still calling torture an "aggressive interogation technique".

The Washington Post has never accounted for the lies they echoed from the administration that led us into Iraq. Instead, they carried the same administration lies about Iran and dropped the story about the president knowingly lying about Iran's nuclear threat.

The Washington Post cited John Edwards because he said that "NAFTA had cost millions of American jobs". NAFTA has indeed cost millions of jobs, but the Post counted new jobs created in the hamburger flipping industry against the total and called him a liar!!

The Washington Post constantly quote annonymous sources who lie for the administration and then deny accountability themselves because "somebody else" said those things!

The winner of the 2007 LIAR of the Year Award goes to the biggest spreader of corporate manure in the world, "The Washington Post".

I would like to nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton's justification for voting for Bush's war. She said, "Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote and I wouldn't have voted that way." Actually, we DID know then what we know now. She simply chose to ignore the information that was available to everyone else, including ordinary citizens like me.

While I have real concerns about the evident pro-Bush bias of the Fact Checker column, I would like to submit the following for consideration of the biggest fib, in the "best of the rest" category:

Karl Rove: "The administration was opposed to voting on [the pre-war Iraq resolution] in the fall of 2002 [just prior to elections]". This statement was made on the Charlie Rose show on Nov. 21, and immediately contradicted by former Chief of Staff Andrew Card and former Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.

As always, I'm amazed by the sheer ugliness of the people who take the time to log onto the WaPo site to complain about the Fact Checker's "pro-Bush bias" or the impending "NAFTA superhighway" or how Mitt Romney means well so shouldn't be held accountable for anything he actually says.

My favorite fib not by Romney or Giuliani -- who are so arrogant that they can't envision anything good happening for which they weren't responsible -- has been Mike Huckabee's insistence that "most" of the 56 Founding Fathers "were clergymen." The true number: one.

Here's a good one:

"Why is Iran doing this? Because it has its eye on a single prize: the bomb."

How about this one:

"In probably less than two years, Ahmadinejad will have the bomb."

One more:

"Which makes it all the more urgent that powerful sanctions be slapped on the Iranian regime."

Can you name that Washington Post - sanctioned liar?

Federal Legislation Overview
For over ten years, NASCO has been developing a strong coalition of cities, counties, states, Canadian provinces, and private sector companies to lobby for federal funding and promote a "SuperCorridor" to address the transportation, trade and security needs from Canada, the United States and Mexico.
We have assisted in the lobbying effort to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the NASCO I-35 Corridor, resulting in High Priority Corridor status for I-35 in 1995 under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). In addition, we successfully assisted in lobbying for the creation of two new categories under the Transportation Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) - the National Corridor Planning & Development Program and the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program.
NASCO also successfully lobbied to take the Highway Trust fund "off-budget" which resulted in increased transportation formula funding for NASCO's corridor states.
NASCO has received $2.5 million in Congressional funding from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) for the development of a technology and tracking project. The project will have a team approach, using members of NASCO as the primary participants in the project, to the extent possible. NASCO believes the deployment of a modern information system will reduce the cost, improve the efficiency, reduce trade-related congestion, and enhance security of cross-border and corridor information, trade and traffic.
The NASCO "SuperCorridor Caucus" was formed on Capitol Hill to promote corridor development and to help secure NASCO legislative initiatives in both the authorization and appropriation processes.
We continue to be recognized as the strongest International Trade Corridor Coalition on Capitol Hill, and we are the only Corridor Coalition with true international representation from Canada, the United States and Mexico.

I can't believe that Alberto Gonzales or Lurita Doan didn't make your list. But my nominee is Mr. Tanner, late of the Civil Rights division who said that ID requirements do not adversely affect black voters because "they die first".

Since, as Mr. Goldstein's posting shows, money has been spent on promoting the "NAFTA superhigway," you ought to remove the reference to Dr. Paul's statement from this list.

Mr. McCain repeated what is an article of faith among many American evangelicals: "the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation."

After WaPo works out the bugs, as pointed out by previous posters, this might be a legitimate series.

Even if it insists on trying to form your opinion.

And the SuperCorridor is real, the 'NAFTA Superhighway' is not. Oh how they love to parse their words.

WaPo ought to remove Ron Paul's so-called fib. He's one guy who's telling it like it is, for the most part.

My nomination:

Rudy Giuliani:

"I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120101615.html

If that is true, why don't we reduce taxes to 1%? In fact economists from conservative Greg Mankiw to liberal Paul Krugman agree that this is NOT the case.

The "NAFTASuperhighway" might not be real. However, something very like it - except for the name - is definitely being planned. And, as the Goldstein comment points out, money has indeed been spent not only on that but on the TransTexasCorridor. Mexico wants to extend that south to their ports, and the Canadian has even confirmed the northern part of the scheme:

http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007290.html

I guess Michael Dobbs or his bosses have too much invested in denying the existence of something that quite clearly is real. Some fact checker.

I am very glad that Mike Huckabee didn't make the list.

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