So Ari Fleischer is out as White House press secretary. That’s one resignation I would love to know the real reason behind. My “favorite” moment of Ari’s tenure? When, after Bill Maher made his infamous remark about the U.S. being “cowardly” in its attacks on Afghanistan, Fleischer said the situation was a reminder “to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.”
Welcome to George W. Bush’s America.
His final big whopper was a memorable one too, maintaining that the aircraft carrier that hosted Bush’s “We Won” speech would be hundreds of miles offshore, necessitating the grandstanding jet arrival and military flight suit photo-op. That was a lie.
Is is just me, or did anyone else regard him as just half a step away from Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf? The difference was, we laughed at Muhammed, and swallowed Ari’s lies whole.
Actually, a lot of us laughed at Ari, too. See, for example:
http://www.lies.com/blog/archives/000581.html
I never thought of it that way. It is extremely funny and then very scarey. Well, i am not that naive. I just hope that we’ll get better information than the Iraqi’s got.