It worked so well the last time…
Woo! Everyone’s a liar! The smearing of Al Gore worked so well the last time, now the Republican Party is trying to pin the phrase on Wesley Clark. They say he lied about the White House asking him to lie about Iraq.
Now get this one. Apparently, Clark told a couple of Republican higher-ups he would have become a Republican if Karl Rove had returned his phone calls. Clark has said this was a joke, but the higher-ups insist Clark was deadly serious.
The problem? The White House phone log says Clark never called Karl Rove at the White House. So now folks are accusing Clark of claiming to call the White House when he said he didn’t.
But, you see, Clark said he was kidding. Other people (Republicans) claim he was serious and he did try to call Rove but Rove didn’t speak with him. Clark, on the other hand, was just cracking wise. He didn’t really claim to have called the White House.
I mean, why would he lie and say he had? Wouldn’t that hurt his campaign? Doesn’t the absense of his name in the phone logs help prove he was not lying about joking?
If your head is starting to hurt, you’re not alone. For more details, check out Josh Marshall. He says for the want of a Venn Diagram, the smear campaign was lost.