It never fails to amaze me how politicians can manipulate the truth. But George Nethercutt stands out way above the rest.
This is a man who ran a campaign to unseat Tom Foley based on one single premise: that Foley was a Washington DC insider. Nethercutt‘s platform was that people who were elected to multiple terms in office always ended up tainted, and that the only way to correct this problem that was by installing term limits.
Nethercutt told us he would be a fresh face on the scene, a person not tainted by previous political experience. He’d do his two terms and then leave.
Well, oops…
By golly it didn’t quite end up that way. Why?
Because when old George had finished his second term, he told us, “Well, I changed my mind. Maybe it’s okay to serve more than two terms. Or I at least it’s okay for me!” And good old George ran again.
He didn’t do all of this for himself, mind you. He was very unselfish. He ran for his third term because it was the best thing to do for the really neat people in Spokane that he so wonderfully represents. It was all strictly for good of the people.
Well golly gee folks.
George Nethercutt Is A Lying Sack of [expletive deleted].
And now we have him in a race with Patty Murray, and there’s the Osama bin Laden commercial. We see Patty Murray (taken out of context) saying how the Muslim people like bin Laden because he does good things for them, like building schools and so on.
And because Murray says this, the Nethercutt add suggests very strongly that Murray likes bin laden and is a traitor, on and on and on…
George Nethercutt Is A Lying Sack of [expletive deleted].
What Murray said is absolutely true – bin Laden is viewed as a hero to much of the Muslim world. But her remarks were taken completely out of context and to use that and try to make it look like Murray is a friend of bin Laden and soft on terrorism is very much a lie – Nethercutt is trading on peoples fears of terrorism and 911to make Murray look bad – and this should be actionable in court.
If I were Murray, I’d be filing a lawsuit against Nethercutt right now. Sounds like libel to me. I’d be asking for big damages.
This whole thing is like having a tape of someone talking about pre-Second World War Germany, where they’re saying how Hitler was loved by the German people, because he reunited their country in the wake of WW I and brought them of the depression (which was true), and then, turning that around and calling the person a Nazi.
It’s asinine. Completely and unequivocally.
George Nethercutt Is A Lying Sack of [expletive deleted].
How anyone could ever think of voting for a man who would stoop that low is beyond me.
He ought to be barred from running for public office for the rest of his miserable life.