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Double standards

From Fox News.

Graham, who participated in a candidate's forum at the NAACP convention, was asked if the president lied to the American people when he said in his State of the Union address that Iraq had been trying to buy uranium in Africa to develop nuclear weapons -- a claim the White House has acknowledged should not have been included.

"I would not use the three-letter word," the Florida senator told reporters. "I would use the five-letter word: deceit. That he deceived the American people by allowing into a State of the Union speech at a critical point when he was making the case for war with Iraq, a statement that he either knew was wrong or should have known was wrong."


Deceit, of course, has six letters. Objectively, a totally unimportant flub that anyone could probably make. But had Bush done this, it would be on the front pages of the mainstream media and all over the nighttime talk shows for two weeks.

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