kos is on fire today - BRAVO - great piece
http://www.dailykos.com/section/bush_adminKaren Hughes. Pathological Liar.
by kos
Thu Apr 29th, 2004 at 01:24:08 EDT
Karen Huges said (about the pro-Choice March) ...."the fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.... our enemies in the terror network, as we're seeing repeatedly in the headlines these days, don't value any life, not even the innocent and not even their own."
...Hughes claims she never meant what she clearly says on camera....
But she did make such a comparison. And we know she made that comparison. And she knows that we know that she made that comparison. And yet she still denies making that comparison.
Bowtied conservative Tucker Carlson is well aware of this Karen Hughes special:"What about your profile of George W. Bush in Talk in 1999? That had to be the most damaging profile of him yet written -- swearing like a truck driver, making fun of Karla Faye Tucker's death penalty appeals, mimicking her saying, "Don't kill me!" -- because of its high profile, and because of your access to him. Did that bring you flak from conservatives?
Well, it's always disconcerting when something you write is received in a way you don't expect. I have no problem hurting someone's feelings -- obviously, I work on "Crossfire" -- but when you don't expect to, it's disconcerting. As I put in the book, the day before I filed the piece my wife asked, "Aren't people going to think you're sucking up?" And that was my concern, that people would think it's a suck-up piece."
"...The reaction was: You betrayed us. Well, I was never there as a partisan to begin with.
Then I heard that
Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard -- that I watched her hear -- she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane.
I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness."
LOL
:-)