{"id":2559,"date":"2004-06-02T18:43:28","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T08:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/03\/on-the-net-everyone-knows-youre-a-liar\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T13:42:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T21:42:53","slug":"on-the-net-everyone-knows-youre-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/02\/on-the-net-everyone-knows-youre-a-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"On the &#8216;net, everyone knows you&#8217;re a liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10881,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/flopped.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051225061347\\\/http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com:80\\\/2004\\\/06\\\/flopped.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 09:38:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Take, for instance, oh &#8212; purely at random, really &#8212; George Bush.<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush last Feburary, on Meet The Press (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Russert:<\/strong> If the Iraqis choose, however, an Islamic extremist regime, would you accept that, and would that be better for the United States than Saddam Hussein?<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>President Bush:<\/strong> They&#8217;re not going to develop that. And the reason I can say that is because I&#8217;m very aware of this basic law they&#8217;re writing. They&#8217;re not going to develop that because right here in the Oval Office <strong>I sat down with<\/strong> Mr.\u00a0Pachachi and <strong>Chalabi<\/strong> and al-Hakim, people from different parts of the country that have made the firm commitment, that they want a constitution eventually written that recognizes minority rights and freedom of religion.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George W. Bush yesterday , Rose Garden press conference:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Q<\/strong> Thank you, Mr.\u00a0President. Mr.\u00a0Chalabi is an Iraqi leader that&#8217;s fallen out of favor within your administration. I&#8217;m wondering if you feel that he provided any false information, or are you particularly &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>THE PRESIDENT:<\/strong> Chalabi?<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Q<\/strong> Yes, with Chalabi.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>THE PRESIDENT:<\/strong> My meetings with him were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. <strong>But I haven&#8217;t had any extensive conversations with him.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/flopped.html\" title=\"Flopped\">Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Where Do the Boys Go? (Extended)&#8221; by Men Without Hats from the album <em>Collection<\/em> (1984, 6:20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take, for instance, oh &mdash; purely at random, really &mdash; George Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}