The Left Promotes Assertions That Turn Out to Be False
By John Leo

Writing in Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assures us that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. This popular conspiracy theory has attracted many Democrats, from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself. (Professor and activist Mark Crispin Miller of NYU says Kerry told him he believes the election was stolen.)

Kennedy thinks it's fishy that the recorded vote didn't match the exit polls in four battleground states where Kerry was supposedly ahead. He also thinks the Republicans discouraged voters by creating long lines at voting stations in heavily Democratic areas. But bitter surmise isn't proof. And according to a long and detailed analysis on Salon.com -- no hotbed of Republican thought -- the evidence Kennedy cites isn't new, and his argument is filled with distortions and the deliberate omission of key data.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/06/the_left_promotes_assertions_t.html

Example of assertion that turned out to be false:

Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations -- in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work. We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States.

Pres. Bush, October, 2002

Example of assertion that turned out to be false:

Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a likely range of hundreds of miles -- far enough to strike Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations -- in a region where more than 135,000 American civilians and service members live and work. We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We're concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States.

Pres. Bush, October, 2002

Here are a few more:

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction." -- Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002

"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction." -- Bob Graham, December 2002

"I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction." -- Dick Gephardt in September of 2002

Haha, when are those GOP blogs going to go after Bush and his administration for there thuosands of lies and screw-ups? Oh right, it's not about that, it's about defending the criminals at eery turn and pretending those that expose your criminality are the bad guys...:nonono:

*sigh*

Kennedy thinks it's fishy that the recorded vote didn't match the exit polls in four battleground states where Kerry was supposedly ahead.

I wonder if he thinks it is fishy that in Colusa County the exit polling showed that the county went overwhelmingly for Bush but that Bush lost the state?

Sounds like a job for drug-addled moron man...


He also thinks the Republicans discouraged voters by creating long lines at voting stations in heavily Democratic areas.

Hmmmm...does he think it is okay to pay crack addicts in crack to register voters and flood the registrars with hard to verify at the last minute registrations?

The dems did that?


Maybe he thinks that he is inured from criticism because his daddy was gunned down like the dog that he was, and therefore he can't be challenged because of his "victim" status as Coulter so eloquently points out?



Does he still hold to the lame propostion that exit polling is an exact science?

Wouldn't a more appropriate title be "The Politicians Promote Assertions That Turn Out To Be False"?
To claim that "the left" are liars or "the right" are liars de-emphasizes the truth which is that they are all liars.