Karl Rove calls Joe Biden "a liar" and "serial exaggerator" -- then lies about him

Karl Rove calls Joe Biden "a liar" and "serial exaggerator" -- then lies about him

By David Neiwert Friday Apr 10, 2009 11:00am

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/karl-rove-calls-joe-biden-liar-and-s



Apparently Karl Rove was so close to George W. Bush that he heard every word every spoken to him during his tenure as president.

On Fox News last night, he called Vice President Joe Biden a liar for telling people he'd had a sharp retort to Bush during an Oval Office visit.

Here's what Biden has been saying:

"I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office .... 'Well, Joe,' he said, 'I'm a leader.' And I said: 'Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.'"

Rove's retort last night on Fox News with Megyn Kelly:

Rove: It didn't happen. Look, Joe Biden does this. I remember this a couple of years ago when he made a similar claim. Joe Biden said, for example, that he spent hours with the president. Joe Biden was never alone with the president for more than a few moments. There were staff in the room at all times. He never said these kinds of things.

I hate to say it, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind I would say he's a liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop.

You'll notice every one of these incidents has the same structure: Joe Biden courageously raises the impudent question, the president befuddledly answers, and Joe Biden drives home the dramatic response. I mean, it's just -- it's his imagination. He ought to get out of it and get back to reality. He's making this up out of whole cloth.

Rove added:

With all due respect to the vice president: These are the kinds of things you can get away with if you are a U.S. Senator or a backbencher in the House of Representatives. You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States.