{"id":11148,"date":"2007-06-16T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11148.html"},"modified":"2007-06-16T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T15:55:27","slug":"snow-caught-in-another-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/snow-caught-in-another-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow caught in another lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Snow stuck to the White House line on March 15<\/a> when describing the U.S. Attorney purge:<\/p>\n

“[W]hat the President has — the Department of Justice has made recommendations, they’ve been approved. And it’s pretty clear that these things are based on performance and not on sort of attempts to do political retaliation, if you will.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart explained<\/a> this week, after showing a clip of Snow’s quote, “That was three months ago. Three months later, a dozen subpoenas, six hearings … thousands of released e-mails, it turns out that their performances were actually pretty good. And all signs are now pointing to political motivations. I wonder how the White House is going to reconcile this apparent discrepancy?”<\/p>\n

Which leads us to Snow’s spin from this week<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Q: Okay, but at the beginning of this story, the President, you, Dan Bartlett, others said on camera that politics was not involved, this was performance-based.<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: That is something — we have never said that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Snow does realize that people record these press briefings, right? He understands how easy it is to check when he insists “we have never said that,” doesn’t he?<\/p>\n

It’s almost as funny as when White House officials tried to convince<\/a> reporters that the administration has “never” had “a stay-the-course strategy.”<\/p>\n

I can almost understand the Bush gang lying; I just wish they were better at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Snow stuck to the White House line on March 15 when describing the U.S. Attorney purge: “[W]hat the President has — the Department of Justice has made recommendations, they’ve been approved. And it’s pretty clear that these things are based on performance and not on sort of attempts to do political retaliation, if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}