The Most Outrageous Lie You Ever Heard...

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TradIsGood

Chalkless climber

the Gunks end of the country

Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 28, 2009 - 01:27pm PT

I am torn between:

"Nine large financial institutions have already agreed to participate in this program. They have agreed to sell preferred shares to the US government, on the same terms that will be available to a broad array of small and medium-sized banks and thrifts across the nation. These are healthy institutions, and they have taken this step for the good of the U.S. economy." - Henry Paulson, Oct 14. 2008

and the more famous
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinski." - William Jefferson Clinton, Jan. 26, 1998

apogee

climber

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:28pm PT

How about:

"Read my lips...no new taxes"
GHWB

jewedlaw

Trad climber

San Francisco, CA

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:30pm PT

I love you.

sorry - bad mood. Final got scheduled during RR Rendezvous and I'm bitter.

Barbarian

Trad climber

stealth camping and hiding from the man

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:32pm PT

"We do not torture."

GWB

pud

climber

Sportbikeville

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:32pm PT

"You need to know the metric system because in 10 years everything will be metric". -my 5th grade teacher in 1973

"This hurts me alot more than it hurts you" - My dad, just before i got my ass whipped

TradIsGood

Chalkless climber

the Gunks end of the country

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2009 - 01:33pm PT

"Read my lips..." was actually true when he said it. It did not become false until later.

Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:33pm PT

I'll nominate Colin Powell, in front of the U.N., Feb. 6 2003:

"...The material I will present to you comes from a variety of sources. Some are U.S. sources. And some are those of other countries. Some of the sources are technical, such as intercepted telephone conversations and photos taken by satellites. Other sources are people who have risked their lives to let the world know what Saddam Hussein is really up to.

I cannot tell you everything that we know. But what I can share with you, when combined with what all of us have learned over the years, is deeply troubling.

What you will see is an accumulation of facts and disturbing patterns of behavior. The facts on Iraq's behavior demonstrate that Saddam Hussein and his regime have made no effort -- no effort -- to disarm as required by the international community.

Indeed, the facts and Iraq's behavior show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction... "

nutjob

Stoked OW climber

San Jose, CA

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:33pm PT

"That's solid 5.9"

apogee

climber

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:40pm PT

Powell's presentation is right up there with the greatest bloopers of the GWB presidency, but the question is: Was Powell outright lying, in spite of clear facts he was aware of to the contrary; or did he base his presentation on poorly researched intelligence, spun by an administration with a clear pro-war agenda?

I tend to lean towards the latter, and don't think his presentation was a true 'lie', but nonetheless Powell had some culpability in agreeing to be part of the process in the first place. It would be terribly naive to believe that Powell was a wide-eyed, innocent victim in that process.

nita

climber

chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy

Jan 28, 2009 - 01:43pm PT

"Mission Accomplished"...
gwb.

TradIsGood

Chalkless climber

the Gunks end of the country

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 28, 2009 - 01:48pm PT

One of the "healthy institutions", Merrill Lynch, lost $15 Billion in just the 4th quarter of 2008 and lost, pretax, $41 Billion for the year. Compare that with ExxonMobil's record after tax profit of $40 Billion in 2007.

Citigroup pretax loss $43 billion.

Norton

Social climber

the Wastelands

Jan 28, 2009 - 02:20pm PT

sex was really great with you .............

Prod

Trad climber

A place w/o Avitars apparently

Jan 28, 2009 - 02:23pm PT

the Bible.

Prod.

Crimpergirl

Social climber

Boulder, Colorado!

Jan 28, 2009 - 03:16pm PT

If you work hard, go to school, get a degree and do the right thing, you will get a good job and be able to live comfortably.

Or something "American Dreamish" like that.

That is a bigger pile of hooey than any story about Santa or the Easter Bunny.

I'm not saying that one shouldn't work hard, go to school and do the right thing - I just don't believe that doing so results in the outcomes we tell kids it will bring.

plund

Social climber

OD, MN

Jan 28, 2009 - 03:21pm PT

"I smoked, but I didn't inhale...."

Slick Willy J also said (& I paraphrase)....'I'm trying to be truthful, and it hurts me'....or something along those lines...

Crimpergirl

Social climber

Boulder, Colorado!

Jan 28, 2009 - 03:25pm PT

I say one should work hard and all of that - BUT it is no guarantee that bad things won't happen.

There are plenty of well-educated people who did the right thing that find themselves in bad situations too - abuse, bankrupt, on welfare, homeless. It is no guarantee of anything and we shouldn't tell kids that it is.

happiegrrrl

Trad climber

New York, NY

Jan 28, 2009 - 04:30pm PT

"I didn't mean it." and/or "I was joking."(said by a person who has insulted, hurt, humiliated you or otherwise said something as a manipulative power play. GRRRR!

Phil_B

Social climber

Hercules, CA

Jan 28, 2009 - 04:53pm PT

Not political.

I was buying my first new car and was being fed more lines than I could stand.

Salesman: You know, the bank will be less likely to approve your loan if they see you're not getting the stereo with the car.