Lies, Lies, Lies... Yeah
In a turnaround from the 2000 campaign, when major news publications spread specious accusations about VP Al Gore promulgated by the Right without questioning their truth, the Washington Post leads today with an article that comes close to using the "L" word in regard to Bush attack ads on John Kerry:

Last Monday in Little Rock, Vice President Cheney said Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry "has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all" and said the senator from Massachusetts "promised to repeal most of the Bush tax cuts within his first 100 days in office."

On Tuesday, President Bush's campaign began airing an ad saying Kerry would scrap wiretaps that are needed to hunt terrorists.

The same day, the Bush campaign charged in a memo sent to reporters and through surrogates that Kerry wants to raise the gasoline tax by 50 cents.

On Wednesday and Thursday, as Kerry campaigned in Seattle, he was greeted by another Bush ad alleging that Kerry now opposes education changes that he supported in 2001.

The charges were all tough, serious -- and wrong, or at least highly misleading. Kerry did not question the war on terrorism, has proposed repealing tax cuts only for those earning more than $200,000, supports wiretaps, has not endorsed a 50-cent gasoline tax increase in 10 years, and continues to support the education changes, albeit with modifications.

For more lies, check out The Lies of George W. Bush by David Corn, The Nation's Washington editor. (If you can't take a whole book full of lies, then just check out Corn's Top Ten List.)