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Geithner: White House Wanted Me to Lie on Sunday Shows

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Geithner: White House Wanted Me to Lie on Sunday Shows | The Weekly Standard

Timothy Geithner, the former secretary of the Treasury Department, says the White House wanted him to lie in scheduled appearances on the Sunday TV talk shows. As Geithner writes in his new memoir:

“I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn’t contribute to the deficit. It wasn’t a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute. Pfeiffer said the line was a ‘dog whistle’ to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.”

Of course, Geithner would not have been the only official from the White House to have misled the American people on the Sunday talk shows. Susan Rice famously came under fire for blaming a terrorist attack on a YouTube video in appearances on the shows.




LOOKs like that is all the admin knows how to do is TELL BIG FAT LIES.
 
The most transparent administration in history wanted one of their own to lie?

I'm shocked.

or not.
 
Kudos to Timmy for admitting that but, you're still an elitist, evil POS.
 
Kudos to Timmy for admitting that but, you're still an elitist, evil POS.

And a tax cheat. Don't forget that.

(Tax cheats are only bad bad people when their names are Clive Bundy).
 
Kudos to Timmy for admitting that but, you're still an elitist, evil POS.

He is not an elitist he is just a slave working for them, he is kissing butt cheeks hoping to get into the graces of the elite.
 
Geithner: White House Wanted Me to Lie on Sunday Shows | The Weekly Standard

Timothy Geithner, the former secretary of the Treasury Department, says the White House wanted him to lie in scheduled appearances on the Sunday TV talk shows. As Geithner writes in his new memoir:

“I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn’t contribute to the deficit. It wasn’t a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute. Pfeiffer said the line was a ‘dog whistle’ to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.”

Of course, Geithner would not have been the only official from the White House to have misled the American people on the Sunday talk shows. Susan Rice famously came under fire for blaming a terrorist attack on a YouTube video in appearances on the shows.

LOOKs like that is all the admin knows how to do is TELL BIG FAT LIES.

Seems like this is pretty innocuous, all things considered. Silly way to play Gotcha.
 
And a tax cheat. Don't forget that.

(Tax cheats are only bad bad people when their names are Clive Bundy).

:lamo come on you know the left can cheat on taxes.

I have not heard a darn thing about the arrest of that democrap pig LEE who was gun running. seems the left are concerned about guns UNTIL its one of their caught gun running.

fast and furiously covering up their one messes:lamo

I seriously think they are the most evil people on the face of this planet.
 
Seems like this is pretty innocuous, all things considered. Silly way to play Gotcha.

yes because it never happened before, but this is not so much a lie as a way of not focusing on the unimportant. It is like saying that when I pick a flower from a bed I contributed to its destruction even though the neighbor's dog tore up the other 30 flowers.


A lie on a Sunday would be for example: Saddam as WsMD and we know where they are or they will treat us like liberators or the fundamentals of the economy are strong.....
 
Seems like this is pretty innocuous, all things considered. Silly way to play Gotcha.

:lamo Play gotcha?

Are you for real? Anyone that has ever listened to the King knows every other word out of his mouth is a lie. But you will not admit it until it is to late good luck to you in the "future"
 
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yes because it never happened before, but this is not so much a lie as a way of not focusing on the unimportant. It is like saying that when I pick a flower from a bed I contributed to its destruction even though the neighbor's dog tore up the other 30 flowers.


A lie on a Sunday would be for example: Saddam as WsMD and we know where they are or they will treat us like liberators or the fundamentals of the economy are strong.....

Well one thing for sure the left always has that one lie bush told. The right will have 65 Outrageous Lies by President Obama. SInce this video has been created i am sure we are well over 100 by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg9m1F8B2_c
 
Seems like this is pretty innocuous, all things considered. Silly way to play Gotcha.

I agree - at that point SS had on balance reduced deficits/debt by a cumulative $2-$3 TRILLION and wasn't predicted to be a net contributor to the debt for at least two decades when the trust fund ran out.

The way Timmy and friends (but kissers to the elites) look at it is as soon as SS turns over and all the surpluses it ran after the Reagan/Greenspan "fix" in the 1980s stop, and there is a current year shortfall between SS contributions and payouts to retiring baby boomers, then SS "contributes to the deficit." Of course that's only true if you look at it as a pay as you go system. Which is fine, but then we should no longer EVER discuss the trust fund again, SS going 'bankrupt' etc. and SS tax increases intended to 'solve' the 'problem' of SS were/are nothing more than tax increases on working people.
 
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Well one thing for sure the left always has that one lie bush told. The right will have 65 Outrageous Lies by President Obama. SInce this video has been created i am sure we are well over 100 by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg9m1F8B2_c

You're referring to WMD assertions as 'one lie?' LMAO. All that 'one lie' did was justify a war that will cost trillions, kill a few thousand troops, injure 100s of thousands of others, and result in 100s of thousands of deaths of Iraqis and others in the ME.
 
You're referring to WMD assertions as 'one lie?' LMAO. All that 'one lie' did was justify a war that will cost trillions, kill a few thousand troops, injure 100s of thousands of others, and result in 100s of thousands of deaths of Iraqis and others in the ME.

I agree.

Everyone who told that lie should pay, starting with Clinton & his cabinet members who insisted that Iraq had WMDs.

One big lie told by dozens and dozens and dozens.
 
You're referring to WMD assertions as 'one lie?' LMAO. All that 'one lie' did was justify a war that will cost trillions, kill a few thousand troops, injure 100s of thousands of others, and result in 100s of thousands of deaths of Iraqis and others in the ME.

It was not a lie. It was a mistake.
 
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I sense another idiotic conservative outrage a brewing.
 
You're referring to WMD assertions as 'one lie?' LMAO. All that 'one lie' did was justify a war that will cost trillions, kill a few thousand troops, injure 100s of thousands of others, and result in 100s of thousands of deaths of Iraqis and others in the ME.

Let me be clear i did not vote for Bush in either election. I was not and still not a Bush fan. But until you realize that the Office of president is only a puppet placeholder you will not be able to change anything. You keep to your right and left paradigm all you want but i assure you they are working together. To bring about what their masters tell them.
 
I agree.

Everyone who told that lie should pay, starting with Clinton & his cabinet members who insisted that Iraq had WMDs.

One big lie told by dozens and dozens and dozens.


yup yup and if you look around who they are pushing to be the next president, another Bush and clinton????
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?

But seems no one is noticing? or am i the only one here that things this is absurd?
 
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I sense another idiotic conservative outrage a brewing.

Well hey if you cant refute the fact that this president is the biggest lying criminal ever, throw names. The same ole common left tactic.
 
yup yup and if you look around who they are pushing to be the next president, another Bush and clinton????
ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?

But seems no one is noticing? or am i the only one here that things this is absurd?

No. The Libs like to rewrite history.
 
yes because it never happened before, but this is not so much a lie as a way of not focusing on the unimportant. It is like saying that when I pick a flower from a bed I contributed to its destruction even though the neighbor's dog tore up the other 30 flowers.


A lie on a Sunday would be for example: Saddam as WsMD and we know where they are or they will treat us like liberators or the fundamentals of the economy are strong.....

Here is but one of the tactics employed whenever Obama, and his band of liars and criminal communists gets caught in their own web of lies...

Any of us here that has raised children know that we don't accept an excuse of it's ok because someone else did it too...Why it is that liberal progressives try to pull that **** all the time is beyond me, it seems to be a flaw in their maturing.
 
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