Karl Rove Calls Joe Biden 'Exaggerator,' 'Liar'

Friday, April 10, 2009 10:43 AM

By: Jim Meyers

Republican strategist Karl Rove has called Vice President Joe Biden a “liar” and a “serial exaggerator” for concocting a story about President George W. Bush “out of whole cloth.”

What set Rove off were comments Biden made in an interview with CNN on Tuesday regarding what he claimed was a meeting with President Bush in the Oval Office.

“Well, Joe, he said, I’m a leader. And I said, Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one’s following.”

Asked about the comments by Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday, Rove — who was a close adviser to Bush — said: “It didn’t happen. I hate to say it, but he’s a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind, I’d say he’s a liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop.

“You’ll notice every one of these incidents has the same structure. Joe Biden courageously raises the impudent question. The president befuddledly answers, and Joe Biden drives home the dramatic response. And I mean, it just — it’s his imagination. It’s a made-up, fictional world.”

Kelly asked: “So you’re saying he just made this thing up out of whole cloth with no basis in fact?”

Rove responded: “He’s making these things up out of whole cloth.”

Rove also disputed Biden’s claim that he had spent “a lot of hours alone with” Bush.

"Joe Biden was never alone with the president for more than a few moments," Rove said. "There was staff in the room at all times…

"I think there are very few presidents who spend hours with somebody in the Oval Office, particularly a — with all due respect, a blowhard like Joe Biden."

Rove also said: “These are the kinds of things you can get away with if you are a United States senator or a backbencher in the U.S. House of Representatives. You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you’re the vice president of the United States.”

Biden spokesman Jay Carney told Fox News earlier this week: “The vice president stands by his remarks.”

Rove pointed out that Biden dropped out of the 1988 Presidential race because he was found to be plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, the leader of the British Labour Party, “and recounting an episode in Kinnock’s life as if it were in his own life.”

Biden was also criticized for claiming last July that he had been "shot at" during a trip to Iraq, Fox reported. He later amended that assertion, telling The Hill newspaper: "I was near where a shot landed."

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/rove_...01836.html

Karl Rove........... ............is this your source ..............

In other news, the Sun is expected to rise in the east tomorrow morning.

Our leaders? Liars?! SAY IT ISNT SO!

In recent weeks Obama has put his foot in his mouth so often they probably unleased Binden knowing he'd say something that would take the focus away from him.

Let's be honest...Liars and thieves are the norm in Washington...regardless of their political leanings.

They're all liars. Because we let them get away with it.

Gibbs is another LIAR

Liars and tax cheats

Gibbs Denies Obama Bowed To Abdullah

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MY GOSH !!!!!!

I surely don't need Carl Rove to enlighten me that Jon Biden is an unabashed and very accomplished liar extraordinaire.

That'd be like James Carville trying to sell me a Used Car !!!!!!!

I love the line in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" where the Colonel (I believe that was his rank) was talking about Richard Nixon when he was VP:

Quote:"Hell !!!! Why, I wouldn't buy an apple from the son-of-a-***** and I consider him a good close personal friend"

That pops into my mind and I bust out laughing no matter where I am - - people look at me very strangely when that happens ...

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(04-11-2009 05:25 PM)Tripster Wrote:  .
I love the line in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam" where the Colonel (I believe that was his rank) was talking about Richard Nixon when he was VP:

Quote:"Hell !!!! Why, I wouldn't buy an apple from the son-of-a-***** and I consider him a good close personal friend"

That pops into my mind and I bust out laughing no matter where I am - - people look at me very strangely when that happens ...

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I always think of this line:

Adrian Cronauer: Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.

(04-11-2009 07:16 PM)T-Monay820 Wrote:  I always think of this line:

Adrian Cronauer: Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.

One other one that cracks me up no matter where I am, is when Cronauer is getting chewed by the MASTER SERGEANT big time and the Sarge is stupid enough to ask smartass Cronauer about his Rank:

Quote:Master Sergeant: "Airman, what does '3 Up & 3 Down' mean to you ?????

Cronauer: "The End of an Inning".

Having served my time around people like this Master Sergeant, I fully understand the levity of Cronauers disrespect of this dudes rank.

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This is politics.

Biden is branded a liar because he won't be able to prove this happened. Rove and Co. may have the proof, but that proof will never see the light of day for at least 8 years. It is buried in the presidential papers.

Check back in 2018.

(04-11-2009 02:54 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  They're all liars. Because we let them get away with it.

I honestly see no way to stop it. Voting in new scumbags certainly does not work. If you have an idea ...I'm all ears.

(04-11-2009 08:05 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  If you have an idea ...I'm all ears.

I hope you don't look like Obama?

(04-11-2009 08:05 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(04-11-2009 02:54 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  They're all liars. Because we let them get away with it.

I honestly see no way to stop it. Voting in new scumbags certainly does not work. If you have an idea ...I'm all ears.

Me too.
I don't think there's anything worthwhile that can be saved.
I'm having a difficult time finding anything to be optimistic about.

(04-11-2009 08:05 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(04-11-2009 02:54 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  They're all liars. Because we let them get away with it.

I honestly see no way to stop it. Voting in new scumbags certainly does not work. If you have an idea ...I'm all ears.

I think it starts at the local level. In the reverse of the Untouchables, the good apples get tossed early, and teh parties pick those who are corrupt, or easily molded. They are passed thru the system.

Occasionally, you get a stand out, one who was connected but kept integrity, one who was just so undeinably charasimatic, that you had to work w/ him...but usually it's a feeder system.

The best strategy I can think of is to find like minds at a local level, work hard, cooperate, and start the push forward.

(04-13-2009 11:08 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(04-11-2009 08:05 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(04-11-2009 02:54 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  They're all liars. Because we let them get away with it.

I honestly see no way to stop it. Voting in new scumbags certainly does not work. If you have an idea ...I'm all ears.

I think it starts at the local level. In the reverse of the Untouchables, the good apples get tossed early, and teh parties pick those who are corrupt, or easily molded. They are passed thru the system.

Occasionally, you get a stand out, one who was connected but kept integrity, one who was just so undeinably charasimatic, that you had to work w/ him...but usually it's a feeder system.

The best strategy I can think of is to find like minds at a local level, work hard, cooperate, and start the push forward.

The system itself is so corrupt that it discourages those of character from participation. I know of many good, honest men and women that have been urged in my community to get involved and thy decline because they know how dirty and disgusting the process is....And I'm talking about the local level. Imagine how bad it gets beyond the local level.