September 01, 2003

The Mendacity Index

The Washington Monthly asked a group of pundits and journalists to pick the most serious lies made by each of the past four Presidents. The magazine then picked the top 6 results for each President, and asked a panel to rate each lie on a 1-5 scale.

For me, Clinton ignoring the massacre in Rwanda and Bush Jr. entering the U.S. with a war on Iraq on false pretenses stand out far and above as the worst cases, even more than how the panel ranked these respective lies. And Reagan deserves a Lifetime Comedy award. Killer trees! That's pure genius.

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