liar. here s the vice president, dick cheney, now he used to be the president s club by mike w. makes it pretty clear recently there s a sort of a code of respect among presidents, recent presidents. they don t call each other names like this. cheney, is he exempt there the rule? no, he s not exempt there the rule. but he made himself exempt. i don t think you ll hear george w. bush making a statement like that. but dick cheney has a different agenda. first of all, his daughter is run fog are the senate in wyoming as a tea party candidate, rather absurdly, since she s basically from the beltway. and dick cheney is trying to help her out by appealing to the tea party worst. i think that s what s going on, number one. number two i think republicans more generally, chris, have always been infuriated by the high personal standarding of president barack obama. by him sz a candidate. by him as a president. by the fact that he has seen to many of his supporters and to most americans, to be
american compromise that has been validated over 200 years, between marketplace, and federal regulation. there was nothing radical about that. minimal regulation of the insurance industry. and yet, these people on the right, go crazy. they go crazy about it from an ideological point of view. so as a kind of mathematical equation, what s the missing element here? what s the x factor here that makes them go so crazy? well, there are two things. first of all, we live in divided worlds of politics and reality. they deny his validity because they deny the rest of the world outside of the world they live in, number one. and number two, i think race has to be part of it, because they see everything that he does in apocalyptic terms. why? what other explanation is there? let me go to the other theory, david corn. are they trying to trash talk him in to trash talking back? i sometimes wonder whether they just lower the level of discourse using words like liar
covered. that s a lot different than trying to bamboozle a public into supporting a hoax of a war. apparently you never heard franklin roosevelt s warning to never use the word rope in a family where there s been a hanging. at every turn republicans had tried to smear the president as a liar and a cheat. the breadth and scope of the gop attack on the president s character, as howard pointed out, is remarkable. and it started pretty much the day he took office. it began, as i said, rather infamously when congressman joe wilson called the president a liar in 2009, when it came to the part of his health care plan. this part. let s watch joe wilson in action. the reforms i m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. you lie! that s not true. well that opened the floodgates. in 2011 republicans refused to acknowledge the reality of a refault. a debt default accusing the president of lying about basic math.
media group. david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones. both are values msnbc political analysts. let s listen to dick cheney, here it is at his current worst. we look at the mess that has been created out of obama care by the president having said, you can keep your policy if you like it, you know, guaranteed, period. that turns out that was a lie. and he repeated it over and over and over again. cheney s not alone. another former gop heavyweight, if you will, mitt romney called the president a liar during an interview on cbs this morning. the real problem that the president has is a broken promise. it s dishonesty. and that s of course, what s really striking at the heart of this. let me go to howard on this one. it seems to me that one thing we know and the discourse we have here on this program and everywhere else in the country is if you call someone a liar, using that word, saying they lie, it s sort of the end of the conversation, because what would be
never use the word rope in a family where there s been a hanging. at every turn republicans had tried to smear the president as a liar and a cheat. the breadth and scope of the gop attack on the president s character, as howard pointed out, is remarkable. and it started pretty much the day he took office. it began, as i said, rather infamously when congressman joe wilson called the president a liar in 2009, when it came to the part of his health care plan. this part. let s watch joe wilson in action. the reforms i m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. you lie! that s not true. well that opened the floodgates. in 2011 republicans refused to acknowledge the reality of a dee faumt default. a debt default accusing the president of lying about basic math. president obama, quit lying. you know darn well that if august 2nd comes and goes there s plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of