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Serial lying is part of the job description for most on wingnut welfare, but is generally considered to be a disqualification for public office. So it is remarkable that Betsy McCaughey, a renowned serial liar, is seriously considering a challenge to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand next year.
This month, McCaughey has been stumping at the [NY] state Conservative Party's conference and at CPAC, retelling her health care reform lies to credulous Obama-haters and basking in their applause.
After the state event, she was asked if she will challenge Gillibrand:
McCaughey, who seemed happy to be asked the question, said, "I would consider it."
McCaughey either changed her mind in two weeks, or has lied again -- so hard to tell with a serial liar.
Details, plus a telling Page 6 story, below.
devtob :: NY-Sen: Serial liar Betsy McCaughey tests the waters
Back on Jan. 20, the gossip page of the New York Post had an item headlined "Ex-pol Betsy in brutal battle."
It seems that McCaughey moved in with a married, 80-year-old Wall Street billionaire immediately after he had moved his sick wife out to a nursing home.
A daughter of the wife has sued over some money, and someone on her side provided a Page 6-worthy quote about McCaughey and her boyfriend:
His friends think he has a wet brain. Betsy showed up to court last week in thigh-high boots and a minidress.
McCaughey's comeback was quite nasty:
"The lawsuit is coming from unemployed, greedy stepchildren who are trying to get money out of him. Charles has supported (his wife) with astounding, lavish generosity, and they have brought this suit because they fear that if Mr. Brunie moves on with his life, (and) divorces, they will not inherit his wealth."
The Post noted that she had publicly accused her (second) former husband, another older billionaire, of "reneging on a promise to finance her campaign for the 1998 Democratic nomination for governor."
McCaughey was asked about challenging Gillibrand, and replied:
"No. I have no plans at this time to run for public office. I haven't been in public office for 15 years."
So the serial liar is also a serial gold-digging adulteress -- she was engaged to her (second) former husband while he was still married!
McCaughey's unusual personal life should also be a disqualification for major political office, especially in the alleged "family values" party.
For McCaughey's serial lying, Alex Pareene, now of Salon, had the definitive short, linky, summary at Gawker in August 2009,
Here's a taste:
Betsy McCaughey is a professional liar. She lies. The things she writes are untrue. They are not even "distortions." They are made-up.
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McCaughey's schtick, as described by James Fallows, is to pose as a disinterested, objective researcher who is just shocked and dismayed to find something insane and evil in a piece of legislation supported by a Democratic president.
And then she sits down to write a very serious and nonpartisan and concerned piece of analysis of this evil thing in the legislation that she made up. And then some respectable outlet publishes her serious analysis. And then, within minutes, partisan Republican columnists, talk radio hosts, politicians, and operatives are disseminating talking points taken directly from that serious piece of entirely made-up bullshit analysis.
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We are hard pressed to come up any equivalent figure on "the left," who openly and intentionally lies in the service of her partisan arguments, and who continues to do so with relative impunity, in major publications, long after the lies are exposed.
Also, check out James Fallows' bewilderment that people continue to take serial liars like McCaughey seriously.
With her "death panels" or other anti-ACA lies, McCaughey is seeking to revive a political career that crashed and burned in the late 1990s. She's on GOP radio and Fox "News" regularly, and also has been speaking at tea party events and local Republican fund-raisers.
I am one Gillibrand supporter who hopes McCaughey wins the GOP nomination she's begun angling for.
McCaughey will lose miserably, and will be further discredited, if that's possible.
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MSNBC's Ratigan rattles McCaughey on health care reform. Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC's Morning Meeting, confronted former New York Lieutenant Governor Betsy McCaughey for refusing to answer questions around health carer reform.MSNBC's Ratigan rattles McCaughey on health care reform. Dylan Ratigan, host of... more
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Betsy McCaughey is a famous liar whom the media keep inviting on their programs to continue to lie about health care, instead of banishing her to some wilderness, where she belongs, to lie to woodland creatures. And so, today she ended up on Dylan Ratigan's Morning Meeting with Representative Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.).
McCaughey did her best, though, defaulting to the secondary position of insisting that there wasn't enough tort reform in the bill. Ratigan was quick to point out that as a cost-containment measure, tort reform would be a spectacularly insignificant one: "Why would you start with tort reform when you have an aniti-trust exemption for insurance companies?" Weiner attempted to inject actual facts, noting that the CBO determined that eliminating 30 percent of all tort claims would yield marginal savings of .04 percent, because most of the states already cap tort claims.
And so, McCaughey just unleashed her SENIOR CITIZEN HEALTH CARE APOCALYPSE nonsense, accusing Weiner of being ignorant and telling Ratigan that he wasn't a "fair moderator," to which Ratigan replied, "Well, you're not a fair answerer." Ratigan gamely attempted to get McCaughey to reconcile how she'd continue to provide the current level of unsustainable funding to Medicare without updating the system to address its inefficiencies, to no avail.Betsy McCaughey is a famous liar whom the media keep inviting on their programs to... more
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John Steward calls out Betsy McCaughey on the facts.
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Death panel originator Betsy McCaughey resigns in disgrace after humiliating herself on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. An obviously prepared and informed Stewart calmly demonstrated McCaughey's entire position on health care reform to be as solid as Swiss cheese.
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Back in the early 1990's, Betsy McCaughey wrote "No Exit," an article for The New Republic on the Clinton administration's healthcare reform plan. The piece was filled with falsehoods -- so many, in fact, that the magazine later disowned it. But by then, it was too late; McCaughey and her article had played an instrumental role in killing the Clinton proposal.
Now, she's back, and is again the chief propagator of some of the most pernicious myths about the Obama administration's plan.
McCaughey's latest falsehoods have taken hold with a disturbingly large portion of the American public. But she couldn't get them past "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who had her on his show Thursday night and subjected her to one of his better interviews, meticulously picking her points apart and demonstrating their inaccuracy, leaving her stumbling and stammering in an attempt to defend her position. By the end of it, he told her, "I like you -- but I don't understand how your brain works."
Two videos of the interview are below; both are extended beyond what was actually aired on television.Back in the early 1990's, Betsy McCaughey wrote "No Exit," an article... more
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The same folks who destroyed President Clinton's attempt to reform health care 16 years ago are behind the fantastic rumors that have recently panicked people:
- The editorial board of The Washington Times
- The American Spectator Magazine
- Betsy McCaughey
These folks merit an extra special award for creating and disseminating some of the most ridiculous and vicious propaganda to come down the pike since the "Aktion T4 program of Nazi Germany in which 'children and adults with disabilities, and anyone anywhere in the Third Reich was subject to execution who was blind, deaf, senile, retarded, or had any significant neurological condition.'"
Lies are lies, and those who spread them are just common liars. Let's wipe them off the bottoms of our feet and move toward something valuable for a change.The same folks who destroyed President Clinton's attempt to reform health care 16... more
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