As television cameras focused on Moore in the gallery, McCain continued his prepared remarks: "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise -- not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker who would have us believe ..."
Disingenuous? Disingenuous, did you say?
Most troubling are the outright misrepresentations Giuliani inflicts on John Kerry. For weeks, the Bush campaign has claimed that Kerry called himself an "antiwar" candidate on Iraq. Chris Matthews, the interviewer who actually used that word, has pointed out that Kerry did not. Other news organizations, including Slate, have noted that Kerry said he opposed the war as Bush conducted it, not categorically. Giuliani doesn't care. He repeats that Kerry "declared himself as the antiwar candidate." Putting more words in Kerry's mouth, Giuliani says the senator claimed "that certain foreign leaders who opposed our removal of Saddam Hussein [italics mine] prefer him" to Bush. And referring to Kerry's claim that he voted "for the $87 billion [for postwar Iraq appropriations] before I voted against it," Giuliani jokes that Kerry needs two Americas so that in the second America, "he can vote against exactly the same thing" he voted for in the first America. The delegates roar their approval, but it's a lie. What Kerry voted for was an alternative that would have paid for the $87 billion by rolling back Bush's tax cut.
Disingenuous?
GIULIANI: He even, at one point, declared himself as an anti-war candidate. And now he says he's a pro-war candidate!
Except that, no, he actually doesn’t. Kerry doesn’t say he’s “a pro-war candidate”—and every journalist in America knows it. But so what? Half-witted delegates laughed and nodded, pleased to be treated like fools by their host. And Rudy wasn’t about to deprive them of their dumbest and most pleasing moment:
GIULIANI: My point about John Kerry being inconsistent is best described in his own words, not mine. I quote John Kerry: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
And how did the Republican National Convention react to Rudy Guiliani, one of the GOP primetime speakers blatantly distorting the truth(or for you Democrats out there--lying)? How did Republicans feel about one of their Convention speakers looking right into the camera--looking America into the eye--and repeatedly and knowingly saying things that weren't true?
Mr. Giuliani turned from sober to animated, gesturing broadly as he lampooned Mr. Kerry as a flip-flopper. The crowd, which shrank in size as the night went on, whooped in appreciation.
They whooped in appreciation! Thanks, Rudi, for bullshitting for the cause! Fucking A, Rudi, way to bah-huuuuuul shit! Ya ol' bullshittin' N'yorker, you! You keep this up, ol' Georgie is gonna make you an honorary Texas turd blossom!
How embarrassing for Rudi. How embarrassing for the GOP. Though, not unexpected. Because who can forget Bush's first triumphant convention?
The U.S. Army said Friday that Bush was wrong when he said in his speech Thursday night to the Republican National Convention that two of the Army's 10 divisions were not ready to fight.
Bush had said: "If called on by the commander-in-chief today, two entire divisions of the Army would have to report ..., 'Not ready for duty, sir.'"
But Maj. Thomas Collins, an Army spokesman, told CNN: "All 10 Army divisions are combat-ready, fully able to meet their war-fighting mission."
And, of course, Bush just completely made that up. Completely. No truth to it, at all. Just invented it. He just looked America right in the eye and lied to them.
So, you know, it's sort of a tradition.
That's how much the GOP respects the people who vote for it. The GOP thinks its constituents are stupid. The GOP thinks its constituents will believe anything.
And the GOP is right.
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