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kpete

(72,012 posts)
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:46 AM Apr 2018

Preet Bharara's Hillarious Tweet: "Also Comey is really short"







The RNC’s big plan is to call Comey a liar and launch a web page.

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism of him before he was fired nearly a year ago.

The battle plan against Comey, obtained by CNN, calls for branding the nation's former top law enforcement official as "Lyin' Comey" through a website, digital advertising and talking points to be sent to Republicans across the country before his memoir is released next week. The White House signed off on the plan, which is being overseen by the Republican National Committee.

"Comey is a liar and a leaker and his misconduct led both Republicans and Democrats to call for his firing," Republican chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement to CNN. "If Comey wants the spotlight back on him, we'll make sure the American people understand why he has no one but himself to blame for his complete lack of credibility."



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Preet Bharara's Hillarious Tweet: "Also Comey is really short" (Original Post) kpete Apr 2018 OP
Republican party official position is all republicans are liars but rump. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1
lest anyone thing the republican party has gone downhill, remember unblock Apr 2018 #2
Organized manor321 Apr 2018 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
1. Republican party official position is all republicans are liars but rump.
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 12:04 PM
Apr 2018

All democrats are liars but rump.

Oh, and Putin is their friend and any democrat is not.

unblock

(52,306 posts)
2. lest anyone thing the republican party has gone downhill, remember
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 12:21 PM
Apr 2018

al gore had a reputation of being an honest, straight-arrow boy scout until republican went on a rampage making up lies and attributing them to al gore,


they pretended al gore was a pathetic liar because he once claimed the book and movie "love story" were partially inspired by him. the author, erich segal, who knew al gore from harvard, eventually confirmed that al gore was correct.

but the media ran the republican's lie and ignored the author's truth, because, hey, there are democratic characters to assassinate.


similarly with the infamous charge that al gore claimed to have "invented" the internet. of course he never claimed to be a techie engineer. how idiotic to even think he would have claimed that. no, al gore simply claimed to have done the most *in congress* to have brought the internet into being.

first, he championed early funding and research for the arpanet and eventually the internet, at a time when few politicians were interested or even aware of it.

second, as vice president he got all government agencies to put massive amounts of government data online, making the internet a hugely valuable resource for everyone. at the time, republicans and the media mocked him for touting the "information superhighway". but it was his effort that made the early internet so incredibly valuable and popular.


well, that and porn. porn proved that people would send their credit card information out online, which was actually a huge concern business early on. but that's another story....



anyway, point is, republicans have long been able to lie and lie in order to tarnish other people's images, and they get away with it so well that they know they can turn someone with the image of honesty or integrity into someone with the image of a partisan liar.

and the media eagerly goes along with it.

pathetic.

 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
3. Organized
Thu Apr 12, 2018, 12:39 PM
Apr 2018

These guys are disgusting, but they are ORGANIZED and ready. The Democrats should learn from this.

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