What else is new, but at least now we have non-mainstream media to help expose it.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, long-time fund-raising pal of ex-President Clinton, told a whopper Sunday about his old boss on ABC's "This Week," while attacking President Bush as part of a GOP-bashing campaign before the midterm elections.



McAuliffe maintained that, unlike Bush, Clinton took the high ground and didn't "blame his predecessors" for the economic woes he inherited in 1993.

"There are 1.6 million Americans today who have lost their jobs since George Bush became president. And what does this administration do? All they do is blame others," he told ABC's Sam Donaldson.

"When Bill Clinton became president, he had a 7 percent unemployment rate. We were in a recession (and) he had the largest budget deficit in the history of our country," McAuliffe went on.

"Did he blame his predecessors?" he said. "No, he got to work. He brought Democrats, Republicans together."

His statement is demonstrably untrue, yet Donaldson left it unchallenged and quickly moved on to the next question ("Let's talk about your party, the Democratic Party. Joe Lieberman ...").



The idea that Clinton never blamed Bush the 41st or Reagan for his supposed economic problems* probably makes jaws drop open for even the liberals on this board, but Democrat Donaldson can't pry his lips loose from McAuliffe's ass long enough to point this "whopper" out. This is going to get a lot worse before November. The mainstream media isn't even pretending to be objective any more.

*the small recession actually ended before Clinton was elected, a fact that was conveniently withheld until after the election.