Just a reminder that :

"lies', 'Fabrications', 'exaggerations', and other purposefully misleading editing and out of context tactics,, are not party specific,,,,

or new




There�'s another figure who merits mention in this discussion, one whose serial blurring of lines between fiction and reality was a mainstay of his public career. That figure, of course, was Ronald Reagan.

Reagan'��s fibs were manifold. They included his campaign-trail tale of a "��Chicago welfare queen"�� with 80 aliases, 30 addresses, and 12 Social Security cards, whom he alleged had claimed "��over $150,000" in government benefits. The woman whom Reagan made infamous was convicted of using only two aliases, used to collect $8,000.

Once in office, Reagan'��s deception in the Iran-Contra scandal briefly threatened his presidency. First, Reagan flatly denied wrongdoing, publicly declaring, "��We did not --�� repeat, did not--�� trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we."

�� Months later, when subsequent revelations rendered that assertion untenable, Reagan delivered an Oval Office address in which he tried to reconcile his public claims with the factual record. "��A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages,"� Reagan said. "��My heart and my best intentions still tell me that'��s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."��

But Reagan'��s fabrications also included whoppers about conflict zones reminiscent of those put forth by Williams and Clinton. During Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir'��s November 1983 visit to the U.S., Reagan told Shamir that during his service in the U.S. Army film corps, he and fellow members of his unit personally shot footage of the Nazis'�� concentration camps as they were liberated.

Reagan would tell this story again to others, including Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. But Reagan was never present at the camps' liberation. Instead, he spent the war in Culver City, California, where he processed footage from the liberation of the camps.




Read the whole article here http://www.salon.com/2015/02/07/ronald_reagans_wartime_lies_the_president_had_quite_a_brian_williams_problem/

OMG,don't we like Salon!

I 'like' many articles from many places

this is one to catch my eye this morning

couldn't find a trashier Site,could you?

msharmony, you have a valid point.

thank you