How can you tell a Republican is lying?

It's bad enough that Little Bobby Jindal thought it was a good idea to use the dismal response a Republican government had to a major disaster in his state as his example of why government is bad. No, Bobby, REPUBLICAN government is bad. How on earth can a party that believes government is bad ever hope to govern well? Anyway, it turns out, Bobby can't even tell the truth about his example of bad government.

Remember Tuesday night when he said this:

During Katrina, I visited Sheriff Harry Lee, a Democrat and a good friend of mine. When I walked into his makeshift office I’d never seen him so angry. He was yelling into the phone: ‘Well, I’m the Sheriff and if you don’t like it you can come and arrest me!’ I asked him: ‘Sheriff, what’s got you so mad?’ He told me that he had put out a call for volunteers to come with their boats to rescue people who were trapped on their rooftops by the floodwaters. The boats were all lined up ready to go - when some bureaucrat showed up and told them they couldn’t go out on the water unless they had proof of insurance and registration. I told him, ‘Sheriff, that’s ridiculous.’ And before I knew it, he was yelling into the phone: ‘Congressman Jindal is here, and he says you can come and arrest him too!’ Harry just told the boaters to ignore the bureaucrats and start rescuing people.

Wellllll, turns out it's a big ole lie. Politico's Ben Smith wrote about it.

Anyway, Jindal's spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers, told Smith that the governor didn't mean to imply that the story actually took place during the "heat of the rescue effort" or that Jindal was directly involved. It actually took place some "days later," Sellers said, as Lee was giving an interview about the incident on the phone.

Let's see. "During Katrina" Little Bobby said he went to Lee's makeshift office and had "never seen him so angry." Lee was yelling into the phone that he was the sheriff and "if you don't like it you can come and arrest me."

Little Bobby, in his sweet high school freshman voice, said he asked Lee, "Sheriff, what's got you so mad?" That's when Lee told him the story about the boats and the bureaucrat who wanted insurance and registration. "That's ridiculous," Little Bobby said, and the sheriff yelled into the phone, "Congressman Jindal is here, and he says you can come and arrest him too."

Does that sound like he implied he was there to you? Me neither. In fact, he says he was there. Lee, of course, has since died and can't tell us the truth, but Melissa Sellers did.

Bobby Jindal lied. He told a cutesy little story that he made up. But Jindal's staff wasn't done yet.

Jindal's chief of staff Little Timmy Teepell said that he and Little Bobby walked into Lee's office while he was "yelling on the phone about a decision he's already made."

"He's saying, 'This is a decision I made, and if you don't like it, you can come and arrest me,'" Timmy said.

But Timmy didn't explain where the "Congressman Jindal is here, and he says you can come and arrest him too!" part came from, but Melissa insisted that there was no difference between what Little Bobby said Tuesday night and what actually happened.

"This is liberal blogger B.S. The story is clear," Timmy said.

Right. So Timmy and Melissa are liars too, just like their boss Little Bobby, because Bobby didn't say he overheard Lee giving an interview about the bureaucrat and the boats. He said he was there, and that Lee threw in the "you can arrest Little Bobby too" line.

LIAR.

Update: Seems Little Bobby's been telling this story for quite some time. Here's a video (dontcha just love YouTube) in which he makes it absolutely clear he was "hearing Sheriff Lee's end of the conversation" with some "nameless bureaucrat" and not hearing some interview.

Didn't hear anything about this little lie at CPAC, although those guys really went nuts when Hillary Clinton said she was dodging bullets in Bosnia.

It's just becoming more clear every day that after eight years of living under the Bush administration's Alice Through the Looking Glass world, they've lost all contact with reality.

When Bobby was giving his speech and saying he was there, he wasn't saying he was there. That mayor who sent out the watermelons on the White House lawn image had no idea there were any racist connotations to that either. Like, what was the joke then?

Mitch McConnell said today that conservatives were more fun than liberals, because who'd want to hang out with Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you could hang out with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Limbaugh.

Is that a trick question?

Michelle Bachman -- who told Chris Matthews that she was worried that Barack Obama had "anti-American views" and then called for the "news media" to "do a penetrating expose" about whether members of Congress "are pro-America or anti-America" and later lied and said she'd said no such thing and blamed Matthews -- came up on stage after the black guy they elected chairman of the RNC spoke and said "You be da man, you be da man."

Cliff Kincaid, head a conservative group with the most bullshit name ever -- Accuracy in Media -- suggested first that Obama is a communist and then that he wasn't born in the United States, something that's been thoroughly debunked, except apparently conservatives can't take indisputable evidence for an answer. The audience at CPAC, where all completely sane people go to spread their sanity, brought the house down with their applause.

John Bolton brought the house down too by picking Obama's hometown of Chicago as his example of city that Iran could target with a nuclear attack. And Joe the unlicensed Plumber-turned-GOP-Strategist (yes, he spoke too) said if he were in Congress he'd probably be in jail for slapping some other member who "stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America."

Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot ‘em. And there’d be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don’t talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict.

I'm guessing the Joe gets to decide who has talked "about our military in a poor way" so they could get shot. And this from the guy who said back when he was Joe the War Correspondent that journalists shouldn't "be anywhere near war" and "should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting."

And now I'm guessing one of my not-playing-with-a-full-deck commenters will swing by to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about or some such.

Delusion. It's what's for breakfast.


Cross-posted at Stop the Press!


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