Posted on 05/31/2002 11:07:59 PM PDT by Gladwin
Pardon me, but I'm already laughing so hard that I can't even finish reading the article. Are people really paid to write this tripe? And then they attempt to smear Ari by starting with the premise, "I'm really too stupid for his intellect!"
Except, of course, he doesn't start with that at all. He starts with the premise that Ari Fleischer lies. It doesn't really take any intellect to deny known facts (and what he was denying turned out to be just that).
Oh no, this is my favorite part! Because this is what, at base, has the press an absolute snit about this administration. This is from the Rummy rules of press conferences. Why address a question, when the premise is a lie? But I'm still not finished laughing at this piece!
Wow, the rest of them, the author of this bullshit article included, are just boy-scouts and always give up their seats on a bus to elderly passengers!
Here are a few "normal person" clues for you: lying isn't the sign of great intellect. You aren't doing Ari Fleicher any favors. You seem to think that anything done by a Bushie is great because, well... it's done by a Bushie! What more do you want? But for normal people, if this article is true, he's a little weasel and nothing more.
Now be honest: if this was Bill Clinton's press secretary, you'd be reading it in a different light, wouldn't you?
It is pure b.s. Despite the liberal bias, the New Republic usually does much better than this.
Ari is very, very good at what he does.
He also has a tendency to get stressed out (remember when he passed out last summer while speaking last summer at a graduation ceremony?), and he also has a tendency to be defensive.
More of the "let's drag down the current adminstration" effort, that's all.
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In my opinion, this was a subjective statement, not a lie, and Ari should have stuck to it rather than backtracking.
At the conclusion of the peace talks in July, 2000, Arafat warned he would be prepared for war by September if no agreement was in place by that time.
And Ariel Sharon did visit the Temple Mount in September, under circumstances he knew would anger the Palestinians.
Let's not fight the war on this thread, please.
The point is, Ari was NOT wrong. He might not have been entirely in the right, but it was NOT a lie.
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Hehe. Keep up the good work GW.
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