Are there any consequences at all for the White House Press Secretary to tell outright lies?

no...

greenwald...

In February of this year, Tony Snow chatted with Bill O'Reilly and said this (h/t Zack):

Very quickly -- very quickly, you got this Valerie Plame case. Now, it turns out that [special counsel] Peter (sic: Patrick) Fitzgerald doesn't -- can't even identify any harm. She wasn't a covert agent. She wasn't compromised. . . She wasn't covert anymore.

Are there any consequences at all for the White House Press Secertary to tell outright lies like that? Does that prompt any media scandals? Why can Tony Snow say with impunity that Plame "wasn't a covert agent" when their own CIA confirms that she was?

this is only another reminder, as if we needed any, that the bush administration and its sycophants will say whatever they believe is necessary to maintain the wall of protection around the presidency... they have lenin's strategy down to a fine art...

"This administration, I've never seen an organization that learned the lessons of Lenin as clearly as these guys," said Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) ... . "These guys must tack up Lenin's philosophy on their bedstand every night. Particularly when Lenin suggested if you say something often enough, with enough conviction, everybody will believe it."

greenwald continues...

Many people who listen to right-wing commentators such as these get their "news" about the world primarily, even exclusively, from these sources. And these sources, knowing that, routinely create their own self-affirming though wildly warped realities, in the process denying the most established facts or asserting propositions for which there is no factual basis.

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But, as they so often do, they [make] them anyway, because those statements [help] to defend the Leader and bolster their political agenda. Most of all, they know that their readers will trust what they say even when those statements are demonstrably false.

and it works quite well, doesn't it...?

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George on Gonzo today, a page straight from V.I. Lenin's playbook

laugh...? cry...? tear out your hair...? run screaming out the door...? go hide in the closet...? eat a quart of ice cream at one sitting...? open a fresh bottle of tequila...? check to see that your passport is still current...? book a flight out of the country...? all the above...?

from raw story...

• I, frankly, view what's taking place in Washington today as pure political theater.

• He has got my confidence.

• He has done nothing wrong.

• There has been no wrongdoing on his part.

• I stand by Al Gonzales.

• I would hope that people would be more sober in how they address these important issues.

• [T]hey ought to get the job done of passing legislation, as opposed to figuring how to be actors on the political theater stage.

what a perfect example of lenin's strategy...

"This administration, I've never seen an organization that learned the lessons of Lenin as clearly as these guys," said Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) in a Thursday interview. "These guys must tack up Lenin's philosophy on their bedstand every night. Particularly when Lenin suggested if you say something often enough, with enough conviction, everybody will believe it."

just keep beating us over the head... beat us until we're bruised and bloodied... yell, holler, accuse, threaten, demean, ridicule, disparage, attack, bluster, complain, ignore, stonewall, lie, obfuscate, spin... just keep it up... no matter what evils, crimes, misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies are revealed, just keep it up... we know we can count on you to stay the course...

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