Momma always told me...

the hardest part of being a liar is keeping all your stories straight.  Mom always said it was better to tell the truth, even when the truth might not be in your best self interest, because if you lie sooner or later you will get caught and then you'll not only be a liar, you'll be a fool.  Obama could have used my Momma advice but he was raised with a different set of values than I was and now he's been caught in a whopper:



Gateway Pundit has all the details.  Suffice to say, Obama was lying when he tried to downplay his relationship with ACORN. 

In my opinion ACORN is a criminal organization that is manned by Marxist thugs whose sole purpose is to promote Marxist ideals.  Our president and the creeps at ACORN are "thick as thieves".  Obama shares their principals and their ideals.  Now, Obama is smart enough to know that publicly throwing his lot in with the thugs at ACORN isn't a good idea but as the video shows, he's just not smart enough to keep his lies straight.

Read Gateway's post.

Bloviateing, Media Matters Style-UPDATED

Via Memeorandum:

Media Matters, showing a total lack of perspective, has done Nancy "Crocodile Tears" Pelosi a one up on the "crazy right wingers as assassins" meme. I believe it is called "bloviating."

Kashner's fascinating cover story actually chronicles the professional struggles of writer William Manchester who was tapped by the Kennedy family, after the president's assassination, to write the definitive book about the shooting. The Vanity Fair articles details the power struggles, and epic lawsuits, that ensued prior to
Manchester's publication.

But this unnerving passage from VF caught my eye. In it, Kashner
retraces Manchester's step as he researched his book. It's unsettling because if
you insert "Obama" for every "Kennedy" reference, it reads like 2009...

Yes, well. When it comes to ratcheting up the rhetoric Media Matters is doing one hell of a good job. My memory isn't as short as Media Matters; from ZombieTimes:

And who can forget that little film "Death of a President":

Spare us your mock hand wringing and outrage. It wasn't called dangerous rhetoric back then, it was called "dissent" and it was patriotic. Nothing has changed except on the right our rhetoric pales compared to yours.

UPDATED:

Ed Driscoll has written an an excellent piece "Media Matters Metaphor Meltdown"

Are there nuts on the right? Of course; there are nuts in any group that contains millions of people. But despite a boomer history that begins right around the time Donald Draper moved into the corner office at Sterling-Cooper, just as not all wars are Vietnam part II, not all scandals are Watergate Part II, and not all protests are the South of the early 1960s.

James Piereson noted in his book that immediately upon being told that Lee Harvey Oswald had been arrested for assassinating her husband, Jackie Kennedy replied, “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist. It even robs his death of any meaning.”

Also from Allahpundit at Hot Air "Media Matters: This right-wing frenzy is reminiscent of Dallas 1963":

Follow the link to Media Matters and you’ll search in vain for any mention of the name of the man who pulled the trigger on November 22, which leads me to believe either (a) Eric Boehlert is a Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorist or (b) Eric Boehlert is in the habit of hiding inconvenient facts from his audience, which, if true, makes him a perfectly mainstream Media Matters employee. For the record, I think Kaus is totally right that Glenn Beck should tone down the apocalyptic/coup rhetoric, but that doesn’t give me the right to paint revisionist portraits of the political sympathies of presidential assassins. Evidently the rules are different for the Brock bunch. Um, why?

Joe Wilson Simply Said What We All Were Thinking

I can't count how during Obama's speech last night I looked at my television and shouted, "liar!" When Rep. Joe Wilson said his now infamous, "You lie!" I gave him a rousing, cheering, standing ovation. The look on Nancy Pelosi's face was the icing on the cake.



Democrats are aghast! Apparently the election of Barack Obama was such a momentous event that all knowledge of any event prior to January 20, 2009 was excised from the brains of the party faithful who are claiming with straight faces that no other president has been ill-treated during a speech before Congress. Wrong, so wrong. But what can you expect from a party who claims that no other president has been subjected to Hitler/swastika symbolism prior to The One? So, are Democrats suffering from extreme memory loss or has the Democratic Party become the party of liars? Both.



Michelle Malkin has it right when she calls the Democrat's reaction to Wilson "manufactured outrage." The outrage was manufactured out of thin air and Wilson's charge was absolutely correct.



The president's speech was one huge smear of Conservatives laced with half truths and outright lies. Every Conservative should call him out on it.


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Exclusive! Sarah And Todd Palin Are NOT Splitsville! Updated

Via Memeorandum

Sigh. Here’s the headlines:

Sarah Palin Is Quitting AGAIN-Now Its Her Marriage!?

Quiterella Strikes Again

Exclusive! Sarah and Todd Palin are Splitsville!

Well, so much for not making things up. Aside from the appalling glee being expressed in the Lefty blogs as they spread the false rumor of the Palin’s divorce, this is nothing more than a typical liberal crap fling. They keep hoping if they throw enough crap sooner or later some of it sticks.

Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story. There is no truth to the recent “story” (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that the Palins are divorcing. The Palins remain married, committed to each other and their family, and have not purchased land in Montana (last weekit was reported to be Long Island).Less than one week ago, Governor Palin asked the media to “quit making things up.” We appreciate that the more professional journalists decided to question this story before repeating it.

Meg Stapleton

Rather than admit that they really don’t have much to say about Sarah Palin, the Left resorts to spreading lies. You have to wonder about these people’s parentage since it seems that they were born lacking honesty, intelligence and shame genes. Deficient breeding not withstanding, these people are excruciatingly dull.

Come on Lefties, put all that oxygen sucking towards something productive.


UPDATE: Stacy has the quote:


"Divorce Todd? Have you seen Todd? I may be just a renegade hockey mom, but I'm not blind!"-- SARAH PALIN


I have seen Todd and He. Is. HOT!

Is There A Price For Being A Bottom Feeding Liar?

Gateway is reporting that Sarah Palin is mad (rightfully) and now she is thinking about using the legal means at her disposal to get even:

Sarah Palin's legal councel released a statement quashing rumors that Governor Palin resigned due to a criminal investigation.Her attorney, Thomas Van Flein, also threatened to take legal action against those liberal blogs and the state-run media for slandering the governor.

This won’t do a thing about the countless, tasteless schmucks that got their jollies by using her children as the backsides of their “jokes.” They are covered under the First Amendment but those in the media who created stories and disseminated them knowing that there was no basis would do well to ponder the words, “what goes around, comes around.”

I have no doubt that if Palin follows through and files suit that there will be a lot talk about “chilling effect” coming from the Left. What exactly is that chilling effect? That the media will no longer be able to lie with impunity? Will it force them to deal with issues and policies and leave personalities out of politics? Tough nookies. It’s called accountability and if it ends up biting some ass-wipe on the butt, three cheers!