Sunday, April 29, 2012

Shake that Etch-a-Sketch

The man who coined that phrase provides a perfect example of it -- rewriting history in 180 degree swaths:
Top Mitt Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom vowed that President Obama's auto bailout was the GOP presidential hopeful's idea...
 Fehrnstrom's Saturday comments marked a different drawing on the auto bailout than what Romney penned in a November 2008 New York Times op-ed. Headlined "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,"

5 comments:

StonyPillow said...

In the Tenth Terrain of Sun Tzu, there is only one option -- lie like hell.

jimmiraybob said...

Bad Seamus, bad dog. Stop shitting all over the car. Consuela, bring the hose, pronto por favor.

Um, now, where were we?

Montag said...

There should be annual prizes for politicians with the shortest memories of their own statements.

Romney and Gingrich would be perennial contenders.

pansypoo said...

fuzzy history too.

Ebon Krieg said...

To paraphrase a Bush wunderkind, "we make our own reality and you will be left to gaze and wonder at its absolute wonderfulness."
There is no bottom to this cliff-dive, so, grab a snack and watch the show.