White House Is Good at One Thing: Lying

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The Bush administration may not be good at fighting wars or balancing budgets or putting even marginally competent people in important positions, but it is admittedly brilliant at one thing: spinning the news.

"Spinning," which in less fastidious times was known as "lying," works like this: Sometime this past weekend, the White House decided that the party line in regard to the federal government's catastrophically poor response to Hurricane Katrina would be that local officials had failed to ask for help soon enough.

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White House Is Good at One Thing: Lying

For example, on Sunday, Sept. 4, the Washington Post ran a story in which it quoted a "senior administration official," who pointed out that as of Saturday Louisiana Gov...

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