Franken-Lies-And-the-Lying-Liars-Who-Tell

Lie #4: The "cumulative percentage difference" is presented as if it means something.
Lie #5: Hannity takes the cumulative percentage difference and, confident in his readers' inability
to interpret or think, intentionally mischaracterizes its already bogus conclusions.
In for a penny, in for a pound!
Lie #6: The point that all these lies are intended to make (that spending-crazed Democrats,
rather than Reagan, caused the deficits) is itself false.
Lie #7: Hannity uses "powerful arguments, clear thinking, and fact-based analysis." This is a
quote from Newt Gingrich on the book's back cover.
LIE #8: HANNITY MAKES IT SOUND LIKE IT WAS THE DEMOCRATS WHO WEREN'T INTER-
ESTED IN INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE OF 9/11, WHEN ACTUALLY IT WAS THE RE-
PUBLICANS, ESPECIALLY THE WHITE HOUSE, WHO DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD
TO BLOCK AN INDEPENDENT PROBE INTO THE MASSIVE INTELLIGENCE FAILURE
No matter what Ann Coulter may say, 9/11 is no joking matter. On that we can all
agree. After 9/11, I wanted to know what had gone wrong. So did most Americans. Except,
Hannity claims, the Democrats in Congress. He says that "liberal Democrats at first showed
little interest in the investigation of the roots of this massive intelligence failure."
If the Democrats were the bad guys, Hannity knows who the good guys were. Bush
and his team, he says, "made it clear that determining the causes of America's security failures
and finding and remedying its weak points would be central to their mission."
He must have been referring to the October 6, 2001, New York Times article "House
Votes for More Spy Aid and to Pull in Reins on Inquiry" which said that "Democrats, who
offered their own amendment, continued to push for a commission that would examine the
events leading up to September 11 and the failure to stop the attacks." No, I guess that can't
be it.
But you know, you can't trust The New York Times like you can trust the Washington
Times. I guess Hannity must have been thinking of their May 24, 2002, "Bush Rejects Probe
of 9/11: Will Not Give Up Sensitive Terror Papers." Wait! Bush "rejects"? That makes it
sound like Bush was rejecting the probe instead of the Democrats.
So maybe Hannity was talking about the May 20, 2002, New York Times article "Cheney
Rejects Broader Access to Terror Brief." That article began, "Vice President Dick
Cheney said today that he would advise President Bush not to turn over to Congress the August
intelligence briefing that warned that terrorists were interested in hijacking airplanes."
Ooh. That almost sounds like the opposite of Hannity's point.