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Lie of the Day

Brigade du jour

01:54 / 20.12.02

Okay, let's see who can come up with the best lie of the day. Doesn't have to be an exact quote, but here's a nice obvious one to kick us off.

"Nobody wants war. We do not want war. The United States, I am certain, does not want war."

Jack Straw, Secretary of State of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

w1rebaby

02:00 / 20.12.02

You UK types have an advantage over us, based on the time difference.

However, I can guarantee that a member of the US government will commit a sufficiently heinous lie to beat that at some point, no problem. I do not fear your transatlantic bullshit gap.

Brigade du jour

02:07 / 20.12.02

Ahha! That sounds like a gauntlet being thrown down! Okay, you've got a competition on your hands!

It occurs to me that US politicians don't seem to lie as blatantly as our lot do - I don't recall Bush saying something as ingenuous as "we don't want to start a war", which is what Straw says here. With the US government it generally seems more implicit than explicit. At least in these here UK papers.

w1rebaby

02:19 / 20.12.02

Oh no, the ones here are blatant, out-and-out liars. They're brazen about it, because nobody challenges them. They can say anything they want, and they know it will be spun in the right way.

Brigade du jour

04:22 / 20.12.02

I have to tell you, nobody challenges them here either - they say they do but they don't. Although once last year Blair was out canvassing for the general election and some woman (now a sort of national hero) jumped him outside a hospital and grilled him big-time on the National Health Service and why it's so atrocious. She kept him there for about half an hour before his heavies moved him inside the building like the pampered prick he is, and her cries for consideration echoed behind him long into the night.

Okay I romanticised it but it really happened, I promise.

Punji Steak

10:39 / 20.12.02

It did happen, definitely. She asked the prime minister why, if the goverment was doing so well with all its NHS reforms, was her husband still suffering such appalling standards of care. He was suffering from cancer, and she had just been into the hospital to visit him, come out and walked straight into TB.

If I remember rightly she was shouting "Why don't you care, why don't you care?" and he was saying in his best smug voice with that lovely smug expression we all come to know and love "I do care... we are doing the best we can..." or something like that, maybe my memory is being distorted by hate and cynicism.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:17 / 20.12.02

heh... she still wasn't as cool as that old lady that got Maggie flustered over the Belgrano... the only time the Iron Lady showed fear, as I recall. And boy, did it rock. (Though when she cried on getting kicked out of number 10 was pretty fucking cool, it has to be said.)

Baz Auckland

14:41 / 20.12.02

Off topic, but The Independent got my hopes up the other day with "Iron Lady charged with betrayal of humanity". It turned out not to be Thatcher though...

w1rebaby

15:37 / 20.12.02

Here's a lie that's actually sort of true.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Trent Lott, engulfed in a political firestorm triggered by his own racially offensive remarks, announced on Friday he will step down as U.S. Senate Republican leader.

In a brief statement issued by his office, Lott said he was taking the action "in the interest of pursuing the best possible agenda for the future of our country."

That's a blatant lie. Clearly he's not stepping down because it's good for the country. But, y'know, it is good for the country to have as few white supremacists in positions of power as possible.

And here's a picture of him looking like a sock puppet:

Brigade du jour

21:43 / 20.12.02

Politicians often look like sock puppets don't they? But I don't remember Kermit having such a curmudgeonly and sparse attitude to the truth.

Unless he was saying what a great singer Miss Piggy is, of course.

Charles Darwin

23:36 / 20.12.02

Biggest lie of the Day? Here's mine.

The fact is that the human race has been too spoilt by civilisation. Nowadays, You can't even expect a citygirl to hold a chicken firmly to slaughter it. And the worst is, when they know they can't do it, they don't even know how to utter a war cry like a Mohican race in order to hold the chicken firmly. They only want to prove that they are smart and comparable to their male counterparts by working in the commercial world; dumping their house-hold chores that their mother and grandmother did for them without a sound of complaint. It's like letting others wash their backside after they have shitted. And all this while, they think that they are doing a marvelous job outside. THis breed of citygirl make the worst of a wife. Now tell me your opinion and don't lie.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

08:15 / 21.12.02

"Good news everyone!" - Me, whenever I have to give bad news to co-workers.

solid~liquid onwards

08:35 / 21.12.02

"of course not dad...ive been offered cannabis before, but ive never taken any"

heh heh heh

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:45 / 21.12.02

"Yes, I'm fine. There's nothing wrong."

Ha. Fucking. Ha.

Baz Auckland

17:18 / 21.12.02

Don't insult sock puppets like that! My sister has a lovely Sock Monkey, and a Socktopus as well. Very nice, and NOTHING like politicians. They look more like they have something sharp poking them, and slugs in their mouths..

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