Census Bureau (Bigotry, Lies) 

FACT: It was reported last week that the Census Bureau has recommended against any adjustment in the 2000 census, even though estimates indicate that more than three million Americans, primarily minorities, were overlooked in Census 2000. Republicans have pushed for this result because if will affect the redrawing of electoral districts in their favor - for the next ten years. The Census Bureau decide not to use statistical sampling because they couldn't resolve the count in time to meet an (arbitrary) April 1st deadline. 

COMMENT: Deja vous - Election 2000. You can imagine that there was some Bush administration pressure on that decision given its consistency with excluding millions of American citizens from the electoral process. 

Linda Chavez (Lies, Anti-Labor) 

FACT: If you recall, Linda Chavez was dismissed before she could be confirmed as Secretary of Labor, because she was employing an illegal alien as a live-in housework slave. Soon after that, Chavez appeared on CNN to make her case. "I think organized labor, I think quite mistakenly, somehow thought that I was going to be their worst nemesis," she told Wolf Blitzer. "I think I would have actually been very helpful in trying to bridge a gap that exists between the Republican Party and organized labor." A subsequent fundraising letter from Chavez says, however, "big labor has a radical socialist agenda." And in the letter, Chavez recalls that after she was nominated, "members of the media were calling me Big Labor's Worst Nightmare. And they were right!" 

FOX News (Lies) 

FACT: Neil Cavuto did a piece on Abercrombie & Fitch's catalog (which features naked models) and brought in Robert Jones of the "Gay Inclusive Advertising Campaign" to talk about it. But here's the fascinating punchline: after GLAAD did a bit of investigating, they discovered that the "Gay Inclusive Advertising Campaign" doesn't exist. That's right - FOX News were reporting the views of a man from a fictional organization. 

Russ Freyman (Lies) 

FACT: Russ Freyman is the associate director for media relations at the National Association of Manufacturers. In an attempt to show the world that "real working Americans" were in favor of Bush's tax cuts, Freyman decided to hold a good old-fashioned rally. In a memo to business lobbyists preparing for the Capitol Hill rally in support of tax cuts, Freyman wrote, "The theme involves working Americans. Visually, this will involve a sea of hard hats, which our construction and contractor and building groups are working very hard to provide. But the Speaker's office was very clear in saying that they do not need people in suits. If people want to participate - and we do need bodies - they must be dreessed down, appear to be real worker types, etc. We plan to have hard hats for people to wear. Other groups are providing waiters/waitresses, and other types of workers." 

Jim Gilmore (Lies, Bigotry) 

FACT: A Jim Gilmore spokesperson confirmed last week that financial assistance will not be available to the same-sex domestic partners of those killed on September 11. Peggy Neff, whose partner died in the Pentagon, recently received a letter from the state that read, "Please accept our condolences on the loss of your friend, Sheila M.S. Hein. We regret to inform you that you are not eligible to file a claim for benefits under the Virginia Victims of Crime Act.'' And so Neff, who had planned to scatter her partner's ashes in their garden, will now probably have to give up the house instead. "Our law is pretty clear on who is eligible, and it does not include domestic partners,'' said Gilmore spokesman Reed Boatright. ''(Gilmore) can't just rewrite laws with the stroke of a pen. If he could do that, we'd have a kingdom.'' However, that New York Republican Governor George Pataki did just that when he signed an executive order allowing gay victims' surviving partners to receive assistance from the state victims' fund. 

Bernard Goldberg (Lies) 

FACT: Bias, the new screed by CBS "insider" Bernard Goldberg that claims to "out" the media as liberal. According to Goldberg, the media "pointedly identify conservative politicians as conservatives," but rarely use the word "liberal" to describe liberals. However, a professor at Stanford University announced the results of an informal study, which concluded precisely the opposite of what Goldberg claims. Geoffrey Nunberg did searches of articles from 30 major newspapers, including such alleged bastions of liberalism as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His conclusion: "the average liberal legislator has a thirty percent greater likelihood of being identified with a partisan label than the average conservative does."

Karen Hughes - (Hypocrisy, Honor and Dignity) 

FACT: USA Today reported that the White House overnight list was free from big campaign contributors. Bush is "keeping his promise," she said by keeping his contributors out of the Lincoln Bedroom. It is now known, however, that indeed Bush has had at least his top 6 donors overnight. Even worse, Bush:
11) gave them a huge tax cut
12) Let them crush Japanese students while piloting a US nuclear submarines
13) Installed them in cushy ambassadorships
14) Told us we would have to spend our fake tax “rebates” on their overpriced fuel, and 
15) Let them trash the environment for their profit. 

Jim Jeffords (Party Switching)

FACT: Jim took much abuse for his courageous move away from the GOP. "A Coup of one" spouts Trent Lott, Vile Chris "Democrat-my-ass" Mathews presents this 18 year old example, "When Phil Gramm felt he was being pushed around by the Democrats and quit the party, he quit the Congress, went home to the people of Texas that elected him and gave them the decision if they wanted to reelect him as a Republican. He decently gave it back to the voters. This character [Jeffords] says I'm just going to change party label. All you Republicans that voted for me tough stuff. I'm now going to be the independent Democrat voting senator from Vermont and you're fools to have voted for me." It's true. Mouthews conveniently decided to use an 18 year old example of party-switching and not mention the more recent Democratic defectors Richard Shelby and Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who went Republican in 1995 without giving up their seats. 

Media (Election 2000, Lies) 11/2001

FACT: After a year of vote counting, the results are finally in. Last night the official results of the Florida recount by the media consortium were released, and like the winner is Al Gore! It doesn't matter whether you count dimpled chads, hanging chads, or cleanly punched chads - if you count every legally-cast vote in the state, Gore is the winner. Period. But if you read any of the coverage of the story in the media, you'd have to look pretty closely to get the facts. The headline on the Washington Post's website was: "Study Shows Recounts Would Have Elected Bush." The New York Times: "George W. Bush would have won even if the Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount that the Florida court had ordered to go forward." And CNN: "Florida recount study: Bush still wins." Surprisingly, only Drudge got the story right: "Big Media Florida Database: Gore Topped Bush if all Under/Over Votes Counted; Legal Strategy Destroyed Chances." 

Robert Ray (Lies, Criminal) 05/2002

FACT: Counsel Robert Ray just issued a report, in essence, absolving the Clintons on the Whitewater issue. At the same time he was finishing the report, he was planning a run for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey against Senator Toricelli. Ray clearly violated the intent of Justice Department guidelines, perhaps
even broke the law, by commencing a run for office while serving as the so-called "Independent Counsel."

Lisa Riddle and Brigham McCown (Hypocrisy, Lies, Election 2000) 

FACT: The last time they showed up at the Palm Beach County Election Office, political consultant Riddle and attorney McCown were furiously arguing that dimpled chads would not, could not, and should not ever count as votes. That was, of course, when it looked like their man Bush might fail in his bid to cheat his way into the White House. Luckily, these two little GOP Nazi's heeded the decree by the felonious five not to use "Bush v. Gore" as any sort of precedent. Indeed, their U-turn prowess went unmatched as they appeared at the Election Office again last week to argue on behalf of Boca Raton council candidate Susan Saxton, who finished two votes behind incumbent Dave Freudenberg after Tuesday's election and Wednesday's machine recount. Of course dimpled ballots should count as votes, they argued, it's clear evidence of a voter's intent! When asked about this blatant inconsistency, McClown said, "there's no inconsistency". 
 

FACT: Judge N. Sanders Sauls was the judge who dismissed Al Gore's case for recounting the ballots in Miami-Dade, forcing him to go to the State Supreme Court. It turns out that Judge Sauls was going to be a guest speaker at a rally organized by FreeRepublic.com along with the another guest speaker  Katherine Harris. Ironically, the rally is titled "Celebrating America, Our Constitution and the Rule of Law." 

Bob Stump (Lies, Rigging the system)

FACT: Arizona state laws say that voters may only cast ballots in areas where they have an "actual physical presence," ie. where they live. Sounds simple. But not if you're House Armed Services Committee Chairman Bob Stump, no sir. Stump admitted last week that he never actually lived in the precinct where he has voted for the last 41 years. Bob's voting address is listed as a farm he owns in the 3rd Congressional District (which he represents). But despite claiming that the farm is his legal residence (and despite the fact that his constituents might expect their member of Congress to live in the same district they do) Bob's resides 17 miles away in Phoenix, in another congressional district. Still it's understandable. 

COMMENT: Unfortunately, Lying about one’s residence comes easy for republicans (as does every other type of lying). Take Dick Cheney for example, Although The Veep had a house in Colorado, he actually lived for years in Texas while he oversaw various criminal activities at Haliburton. Why is this such a big deal? Well, it seems that the law says that both the President and the VP cannot come from the same state. So how do you get around that when both reside in Texas. Simple, just lie.

Jane Swift ( Criminal, Lies, Hypocrisy)

FACT:  A $100 fine? That's what Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift got when it was revealed last week that she and her husband, Charles Hunt, lied on their 1994 marriage application by saying he had been married only once before, when in fact he had been married, um, three previous times. According to the Boston Globe, Swift said that they were trying to keep her husband's "private life private," and they obviously "made a misguided decision." Never mind that she is an elected official who committed perjury. Recall that the last elected official who committed perjury in order to keep his “private life private” was impeached. Oh, but of course Swift is a Republican and laws don’t apply to them.