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The Most Dishonest Statement Of The Year (Maybe Of The Decade? The Century?)

Well, we were not involved in the world before 9/11, and look what happened. ~Karl Rove Yes, if only it hadn’t been for the “isolationists”!  This is a perfect example of 1984-style inversion of the truth.  This is the sort of warped, twisted interpretation of reality that ought to reduce the Republicans to a 20% rump for half a century, […]

Well, we were not involved in the world before 9/11, and look what happened. ~Karl Rove

Yes, if only it hadn’t been for the “isolationists”!  This is a perfect example of 1984-style inversion of the truth.  This is the sort of warped, twisted interpretation of reality that ought to reduce the Republicans to a 20% rump for half a century, but since such interpretations flourish thanks to ignorance and self-serving myths that will not happen. 

Of course, at FoxNews he gets away with such obvious lies.

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