Why isn't this woman out having sex with her husband, keeping him happy and making him meals like a good Republican drone?

She's not married?...ohhh...uh...well...I see...a "career" woman...the poor dear.

How the Hell do you pronounce this womans last name? And why is that McCain surrounds himself with good looking woman and old geezers? It looks like an advertisment for Faux News.

I don't think they win by using this crap. The only people it appeals to wouldn't vote for Obama anyway. McCain and Palin are starting to look like what they are, people with nothing to talk about and a lot to hide.

"Whistleblower breaks 15-year silence to allege McCain hid wife's drug abuse"

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_breaks_15year_silence_to_all...

P.D. @ 3:

How the Hell do you pronounce this womans last name? And why is that McCain surrounds himself with good looking woman and old geezers? It looks like an advertisment for Faux News.

John McCain made his navy career by hiding behind Daddy's brass. When he realized that he had to be the man of the house when he married his first wife, he dumped her. Then he found a sugar mommy to hide behind. Now he's hiding behind the GOP nannies, closet lesbians and Stepford women.

And this is the man to lead our country?

MSNBC is really going down the tubes. And I don't even watch it or have to.

McCain's pathetic videos on Youtube are getting hundreds of thousands of hits. Obama's are getting thousands of hits. Obama really needs to step up his game.
I thought they were supposed to not campaign today. They should have featured a video with them speaking together or something on this day. Happy Nine Eleven.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnMcCaindotcom
http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom

How bout the irony of Sarah Mania? After the Resh*tlicons complained about Obama mania?

LA@11, I would agree with you, Contessa and the other so-called 'journalists' totally suck. But Oberman and Rachel is MSNBC's only saving grace. I can't imagine listening to Glenn Beck. I would rather stick an ice pick in my brain.

Caveat @ 14:

I think Obama's winning this one - he's using the same kind of pointless distractions the GOP uses but now they're scurrying around trying to prove that Palin isn't a porker and that Obama is a big ol' meanie. Good luck with that.

I laughed out loud when they ran the clip of McCain saying the same thing - three times.

I would give my left testicle to see Brad Blakeman get laughed off the set on Verdict. Damn you, Rachel!!!

Um when is Mrs. Palin going to apologize for calling hockey Moms pitbulls? ya know dogs. According to her the only way to distinguish between the two is one has lipstick so it's safe to assume she thinks hockey moms are dogs right? I mean as long as we're stretching things we might as well stretch 'em all. Issues? what issues?

Why is he smiling? He should be taking her to fucking task and calling her out for the lying bitch she is!

Arizona @ 6:

It takes a special kind of sociopathy to be able to completely ignore reality and peddle your own lies on national television when everyone knows you're lying.

A complete absence of shame.

I started to post three times and gave up because it was long-winded and convoluted. Thanks for saying it right. :)

Sociopathy is the new republicanism.

mcgramps keeps digging himself deeper and deeper with that sexist theme of the lipstick on a pig somehow refersto palin

Does that mean he can't wait to dig into that pig?

Liberal@22, LOL. She could hire those lobbyists who were so successful in securing the millions for her little berg of nowhere! it makes you wonder what she does in her free time. Maybe burn more books or harass more underlings?

Housing market is raped, home foreclosures of such volume that lenders have no way of dealing with them, market is teetering to drop below 10K, jobless rate at an 8 year high, healthcare is a mess, U.S. troop suicide rate greater than the national rate, we're still in a war that was based on verifiable lies, still in a war in Afghanistan, voting process is still privatized, still no habeas corpus, Guantanamo is still the American Gulag, no accountability on torture, $10B per month still going over to Iraq (most of which ends up in the hands of private contractors), Fanny & Freddie get subsidized while their CEOs walk with $11M,...

and I should be concerned about offending Sarah 'Baracudda' and her doe-eyed, women's bible study femme-bots, because?

L.A. Confidential @ 11:

MSNBC is really going down the tubes. And I don't even watch it or have to.

Hear, hear....NONE of them are worth a lead penny. Like you, I assume, we only know
what is reported on MSNBC/CNN/Faux/etc. by logging on here at C&L because none of
the MSM report news...it's "entertainment" which is where the money is.

How does Nancy Pfotenhauer know the crowd "Clearly took it as a reference to Palin Was she there? did she ask anyone? Short answer....NO!
The fact is that the remark was in reference to how McCain is revising history in an attempt to con us into believing he is something that he isn't.

This is another example of the Korporate Retardlican media making something out of nothing. Because they have nothing to run on they focus on minutia attempting to distract us from the real facts.

Fact: McCain has voted 100% with Bush in 2008 and 97% with Bush in 2007%. The change McCain is hiding from you is that he is becoming more like Bush every year!
Where is the concern or outrage over these facts?.

Fact: Palin told a pack of lies in her acceptance speech at the convention (see factcheck.org).
She has also not been properly vetted and there are a lot of questions about her past that need to be answered. She's already been caught in several lies and half truths.
why is the Korporate media taking a hands off approach with her and not doing their job?

Instead of trying to distract people from the real issues the media needs to start doing their job and ask some real questions about how the hell these two Bushies think they can con America into voting for four more years of the McSame.

McPalin flip-flopped on the "Bridge to Nowhere", but SHE KEPT $233 MILLION FROM THE FEDS and is spending OUR money on other road projects in AK.

Why was AK allowed to keep the $ if it was allocated for the bridge?

Another case of the fleecing of America!

Doggiebobo @ 35:

L.A. Confidential @ 11:

MSNBC is really going down the tubes. And I don't even watch it or have to.

Hear, hear....NONE of them are worth a lead penny. Like you, I assume, we only know
what is reported on MSNBC/CNN/Faux/etc. by logging on here at C&L because none of
the MSM report news...it's "entertainment" which is where the money is.

All I know is back in 2000 my main concern was. . ."W in T flying F is Bush Jr. doing in this thing?"

Sirens and alarm bells went off. And haven't stopped since.

I thought it was Pfotenheffer...sorry...my bad.

Larry King had on four women last night (two and two) and the two Democrats tore this thing apart. If was good to watch.

Jay Severin Has A Small Pen1s @ 30:

The voter should DEMAND and apology from McCain and the Republicans for where this country is...in the toilet!!

Actually that can be rather enjoyable

Witih the right publications

And no one pounding on the door.

Breaking NEWS!!! - John McCain woke up this morning.

This one's a real piece of work. Did she get fired from Fux or somewhere?

ronhohn @ 40:

Fotenhower -
Pfoten = Paws (German), Hauer = Beater (German).
Someone who beats paws, or someone who beats with paws.

She uses her paws to beat off?

It's obvious that the McCain campaign couldn't care less about the problems facing America because they would rather spend their time talking about meaningless bs.

Oh...and the only patriot in congress is at it again....I love this man!
Go KOOOOCH!
http://snipurl.com/3oyip

Dr Acula @ 50:

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

C'mon, L&P -- she DIDN'T sell the plane on eBay. It was sold by a broker for something like a $220,000 LOSS!

Oh...sorry....I missed that...must have been noted on one of those thousands of misssing emails.

Dr Acula @ 50:

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

C'mon, L&P -- she DIDN'T sell the plane on eBay. It was sold by a broker for something like a $220,000 LOSS!

Maybe the guy she sold it to is named Edward Bay. Ever think of THAT????

flavor409 @ 55:

It's obvious that the McCain campaign couldn't care less about the problems facing America because they would rather spend their time talking about meaningless bs.

C'mon...be fair. It's tough to parse reality with meaningless bs when you're 72 years old.

Calling someone a dog would actually be a compliment. There is no nobler creature than a dog, who does so many things for us, asking for so little.

Dr Acula @ 50:

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

C'mon, L&P -- she DIDN'T sell the plane on eBay. It was sold by a broker for something like a $220,000 LOSS!

Did not realize that the plane was sold at a loss, but regardless, there was absolutely
no need for an airplane since(as she and others have explained), Russia is in real close
proximety to Alaska and when/if she needs to confer w/Putin, she can either take a
bus, drive her car or perhaps even walk to such a meeting since they are sooooo close
to one another.

Captain ENOUGH Kangaroo @ 61:

Dr Acula @ 50:

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

C'mon, L&P -- she DIDN'T sell the plane on eBay. It was sold by a broker for something like a $220,000 LOSS!

Maybe the guy she sold it to is named Edward Bay. Ever think of THAT????

You're comment would have been funnier if you had said...Richard Bay. ; 0 )

What needs to happen is the MSM needs to mute these saps when they start lying, and tell them that they can have their own opinion but not their own facts. Sadly, showing spine is not something we're likely to see anytime soon.

ABC plans prime-time Palin special. CNN is also planning a Palin special this weekend.

Destroy your Televisions in protest.

So when Palin said she just like a vicious, dangerous dog except that she wears lipstick, was she insulting herself? Or insulting the dog.

Pfotenhauer & Co. are of course the worst of liars, and Shuster, if he had had any
guts at all would have called her that to her face especially
after the 'let me speak, you invited me on' B.S.....

America identifies with the Pfotenheffers and Palins...how sad is that.

In Maine the right wing republicans have "commandeered" their own BB. they feel that this is the end of the Obama campaign. If small town small minded americans are thinking like the small town small minded Mainers I have to deal with on a daily basis, then yes the repubs will run with this.

They got Sarah to fire up the religious base. Her extreme beliefs (MCWasilla.com Master Commission Wasilla Alaska trailer video made my skin crawl! Her Iraqw=God's War crowd) will keep the base in line (Bush AlQuaida?) Maybe they think that insulting women will drive the hilary voters away from Barack?

If the media keeps laboring over this because they think the Republicans will finally come clean, they could be working over this story until November. They need to just move on. They've given the Republicans enough coverage. They should give Obama equal time now.

Dr Acula @ 39:

McPalin flip-flopped on the "Bridge to Nowhere", but SHE KEPT $233 MILLION FROM THE FEDS and is spending OUR money on other road projects in AK.

Why was AK allowed to keep the $ if it was allocated for the bridge?

Another case of the fleecing of America!

THIS needs to be hammered over and over! What DID the money get used for?

Liberal AND Proud @ 43:

I thought it was Pfotenheffer...sorry...my bad.

I think it's pronounced:

"f*ckin' heifer"

Why are all Republican hardline women anorexic?

L.A. Confidential @ 73:

ABC plans prime-time Palin special. CNN is also planning a Palin special this weekend.

Destroy your Televisions in protest.

Contact the sponsors of the "pig fest"!

I wish the MSM would dig a little deeper into the "I sold our private jet on E-Bay" fiasco...

You cannot be governor of Alaska without flying on airplanes--constantly. The only way in and out of Juneau is by plane or boat. They need to find out what she's using for transportation. She's definitely flying in SOMETHING. The Westwind II that she was using is old, noisy, and not very fuel efficient. I'm sure they upgraded to something more economical; perhaps even chartering all of her trips (might want to see who got THAT contract).

Bottom line: she's exaggerating and/or misrepresenting why she sold that plane. She still has to travel by plane. What are the new arrangements????

This is every bit as significant as the "Bridge to Nowhere" nonsense she's been peddling.

•Reporters asked Sarah Palin if she could ever be president and commander-in-chief, and she said, "Ya, sure, you betcha!" … David Letterman (CBS)

•Since Sarah Palin became the vice presidential nominee, there's been an actual spike in the sales of her style of eyeglasses. Gone way up. Yeah. Yeah, with Palin's glasses, you'll be able to see everything, except what the hell your teenage daughter's up to. ... Conan O'Brien (NBC)

•I gotta admit, [Palin, the governor of Alaska] looked very comfortable at the podium. 'Cause it's kinda like Alaska: you look out on that [Republican] convention floor, nothing but white as far as the eye can see. … Jay Leno (NBC)

•They asked her if she would be able to explain how she once lobbied Washington for earmarks, and she said, "We'll cross that bridge to nowhere when we come to it."… Jay Leno

•"[Republican presidential nominee John] McCain has been running this campaign based on 'We're at war, it's a dangerous world out there … I, John McCain, am the only one standing between the blood-thirsty Al Qaeda and you. But if I die, this stewardess can handle it.' " … Bill Maher (HBO)

liberalNmoderation @ 52:

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

Am I the only one to think of this? She's going back to delete emails.
She's in panic mode and in a hurry to cover her ass.

CLARITY: It was put on e-bay, but IT WAS NOT SOLD..........IT DID NOT SELL......THE STATE LOST MONEY ON IT.

The hatred I have for the Jim Crow Party is irreversible. They conduct business as if only white people exist and matter, they insult any detractors 24/7, then cry like grammar school girls if progressives dare say anything about them, their LIES and DOUBLE STANDARDS are vomit inducing.

Liberal AND Proud @ 88:

Dr Acula @ 82:

Doggiebobo @ 67:

Dr Acula @ 50:
Did not realize that the plane was sold at a loss, but regardless, there was absolutely
no need for an airplane since(as she and others have explained), Russia is in real close
proximety to Alaska and when/if she needs to confer w/Putin, she can either take a
bus, drive her car or perhaps even walk to such a meeting since they are sooooo close
to one another.

Yeah, maybe she could catch a ride to Siberia with one of those guys on "Ice Truckers"!

Gas, grass or ass...nobody rides for free.

Guess that explains her daughter.

Scared to death of Sarah Palin? That's a laugh. Who is it that is hiding out from the press while they learn exactly what it is that a vice president does? I think the McCain strategy is to literally throw out such an overwhelming volume of bullshit that it smothers reality.

spickle @ 26:

Question:

What happens when you can't catch the bad guy?

You just decide he isn't the bad guy anymore, since you already caught the bad guy.

Question:

But Osama bin Laden is the one that - you keep talking about his lieutenants, and, yes, they are very important, but Osama bin Laden was the mastermind of 9/11 -

Dana Perino:

No, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind of 9/11, and he's sitting in jail right now.

Let me get this straight
Bush's biggest failure was not catching Osama bin Laden.
And now he's "not" responsible.
But some other guy is, who coincidentally they have in custody.

WOW
7yrs of hearing Osama, Osama, Osama.

And to stop people from asking where is he, they tell us, Oh, he's not that important he is just an underling?

Left&Left @ 99:

The hatred I have for the Jim Crow Party is irreversible. They conduct business as if only white people exist and matter, they insult any detractors 24/7, then cry like grammar school girls if progressives dare say anything about them, their LIES and DOUBLE STANDARDS are vomit inducing.

The Jim Crow Party only sees white people. All others have no rights in their eyes.

Look at their record on civil rights.

Liberal AND Proud @ 107:

Left&Left @ 99:

The hatred I have for the Jim Crow Party is irreversible. They conduct business as if only white people exist and matter, they insult any detractors 24/7, then cry like grammar school girls if progressives dare say anything about them, their LIES and DOUBLE STANDARDS are vomit inducing.

The Jim Crow Party only sees white people. All others have no rights in their eyes.

Look at their record on civil rights.

They're not to keen on women's rights either....even if they're white.

I am a lousy chess player. Most liberals are. But, I believe a word for this whole stupidity is called drawing out your queen. So, Obama makes a perfectly justifiable claim that The republicans economic plan is more of the same by using a charming colloquialism with the now trademarked work "lipstick". Palin believes she now owns that line after repeating a really old joke with that as the rather lame punchline. So, it is reasonable to say that this line and the line about the fish wrapped in todays newspaper still stinking over 8 years( I like that one better) is nothing more than a folksy way of illustrating a very real point. It however opens up your flank to a very predicable and very easy to parry attack that both makes the Republicans look like petty, whiny whiners and thus everything they ridicule liberals of being and makes your guy look good by staying above the stupid kurfufle. Cool, republicans have become the feminazis they despise. And our guy looks like he is talking about the issues. For me this gives me hope. Obama is being both charming, clever and a little sneaky. Aaron Sorkin would put this kind of thing in a West Wing episode. I honestly didn't think Democrats could pull this sort of thing off. It's good to see.

Stan @ 89:

Why are all Republican hardline women anorexic?

They have perfected the art of repression, no? No wonder Cindy was/is addicted to sedatives...she probably needed them as an antidote to the anxiety that such severe self deprivation can cause. In the circles in which these women move, a few extra pounds betrays an unforgivable lack of self-discipline and character in general. In a world where image is so all-important, those diets, face-lifts, spa treatments and workouts are a career necessity, whether the career is their own or their husbands'. IMHO

Will there be a 21 shotgun salute at Bristol Palin's wedding?

Is she having a combined baby and bridal shower?

Where does one go to get a maternity wedding dress anyway?

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

Dog sled.

They were all wearing lipstick.

Doggiebobo @ 104:

fastfeat @ 85:

Dr Acula @ 39:

McPalin flip-flopped on the "Bridge to Nowhere", but SHE KEPT $233 MILLION FROM THE FEDS and is spending OUR money on other road projects in AK.

Why was AK allowed to keep the $ if it was allocated for the bridge?

Another case of the fleecing of America!

THIS needs to be hammered over and over! What DID the money get used for?

Certainly NOT defending the "pig wearing lipstick", but in reality, she was FOR the
bridge to No Where, before she was AGAINST it, and since she did a flip-flop, and
the monies had already been approved, she(like any Governor of any State), can
and is justsified in reallocating those funds to other needed project with their respective
States. I understand that much of it went to "new" road constructions within Alaska.

Thanks for the clarification.

Personally, I'd like to see a revision of that policy. Seems to me that it would make more sense that such federal funds, if not used for the project(s) for which they were designated, should be returned so that they could be allocated to other uses. But that's just me...

BrokenArrow @ 94:

Post American @ 13:

McCain's pathetic videos on Youtube are getting hundreds of thousands of hits. Obama's are getting thousands of hits. Obama really needs to step up his game.
I thought they were supposed to not campaign today. They should have featured a video with them speaking together or something on this day. Happy Nine Eleven.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnMcCaindotcom
http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom

Site monitor should have deleted this one......it's got troll all over it.

Obama's was a 35 minute speech and McCain's was a 30 second ad. Short ads are going to get more viewers because those that are paying attention have already seen the speech. Viewing the ad is trying to find if there is any substance to the ad. Of course there is none.

Seems to me that the people I am surrounded by are pretty sick of the same old nasty tactics. McCain may be controlling the content of the airwaves, but he isn't making people like what he has to say. I think its backfiring. For the record, I live in the most conservative part of Virginia, so the pool I am observing is showing something I consider significant

the republican strategy is to control the story and they are doing it. btw, mccain has been stealing songs, video and logos without getting copyright releases: "barracuda" song at the convention; at lebanon ohio, mccain used the ohio state university logo without permission, and also used "signed sealed delivered" (stealing it from the obama campaign); and CBS ordered the youtube mccain ad featuring katie couric yanked. They are thieves and consider themselves above the law...and they are learning that they can get away with it.

BrokenArrow @ 97:

liberalNmoderation @ 52:

Liberal AND Proud @ 46:

How did Palin get back to Alaska? Did she fly commercial...or did she set up a leaseback arrangement on the plane she sold on e-bay?

Am I the only one to think of this? She's going back to delete emails.
She's in panic mode and in a hurry to cover her ass.

CLARITY: It was put on e-bay, but IT WAS NOT SOLD..........IT DID NOT SELL......THE STATE LOST MONEY ON IT.

I know BrokenArrow....but after hearing about the 1100 plus emails she refuses to turn over, I'm thinkin she's goin back to "lose" them. Like Cheney did with his emails.
This troopergate thing looks like it has more to it than we know right now.
The sale of this plane at a loss is bad, but not as bad as what she's trying to cover up regarding troopergate.

Doggiebobo @ 104:

fastfeat @ 85:

Dr Acula @ 39:

McPalin flip-flopped on the "Bridge to Nowhere", but SHE KEPT $233 MILLION FROM THE FEDS and is spending OUR money on other road projects in AK.

Why was AK allowed to keep the $ if it was allocated for the bridge?

Another case of the fleecing of America!

THIS needs to be hammered over and over! What DID the money get used for?

Certainly NOT defending the "pig wearing lipstick", but in reality, she was FOR the
bridge to No Where, before she was AGAINST it, and since she did a flip-flop, and
the monies had already been approved, she(like any Governor of any State), can
and is justsified in reallocating those funds to other needed project with their respective
States. I understand that much of it went to "new" road constructions within Alaska.

I heard that she did use the money on infrastructure but it was to build a road to the non-existent bridge to nowhere. Now we have a road to nowhere. (I think I heard Keith Olbermann say this the other night, I'll check it out.)

ysbaddaden @ 126:

Obama's apology should've been, "I'm sorry you don't want to talk about the economy, but I understand your pain, since y'all screwed it up so royally over the past 8 years."

mcgramps new slogan, "I was an insider before I became an outsider."

McGramps? But...isn't Palin running for President...I mean...I see her everywhere....

jonathan @ 111:

I am a lousy chess player. Most liberals are. But, I believe a word for this whole stupidity is called drawing out your queen. So, Obama makes a perfectly justifiable claim that The republicans economic plan is more of the same by using a charming colloquialism with the now trademarked work "lipstick". Palin believes she now owns that line after repeating a really old joke with that as the rather lame punchline. So, it is reasonable to say that this line and the line about the fish wrapped in todays newspaper still stinking over 8 years( I like that one better) is nothing more than a folksy way of illustrating a very real point. It however opens up your flank to a very predicable and very easy to parry attack that both makes the Republicans look like petty, whiny whiners and thus everything they ridicule liberals of being and makes your guy look good by staying above the stupid kurfufle. Cool, republicans have become the feminazis they despise. And our guy looks like he is talking about the issues. For me this gives me hope. Obama is being both charming, clever and a little sneaky. Aaron Sorkin would put this kind of thing in a West Wing episode. I honestly didn't think Democrats could pull this sort of thing off. It's good to see.

I was surprised too. I agree with your analysis of the situation, but are we supposed to say that? Lol.

Liberal AND Proud @ 109:

Liberal AND Proud @ 107:

Left&Left @ 99:

The hatred I have for the Jim Crow Party is irreversible. They conduct business as if only white people exist and matter, they insult any detractors 24/7, then cry like grammar school girls if progressives dare say anything about them, their LIES and DOUBLE STANDARDS are vomit inducing.

The Jim Crow Party only sees white people. All others have no rights in their eyes.

Look at their record on civil rights.

They're not to keen on women's rights either....even if they're white.

And immigrants...don't forget the "evil" immigrants!

ABC's After school Disney special
Charlie and Sara's
Paling around with the Palins

It just goes to show ya, you can put lipstick on a seal but it's still just a seal.

fastfeat @ 134:

Liberal AND Proud @ 118:

FG @ 116:

Oh Nancy, keep shoveling it and distracting us from what really matters.

Screw that. I need real distraction. Nancy...show us your tits!!

Unless she's got implants, I doubt there's much to see.

Sorry, I'm not an implant fan, and out of deference to the women in the room....I will leave it there.

If you tell someone you are like a 'pitbull wearing lipstick' IOW a 'hockey mom', why do you get offended if someone talks about a pig wearing lipstick, unless you are making the connection that you are a pig.

Liberal AND Proud @ 131:

ysbaddaden @ 126:

Obama's apology should've been, "I'm sorry you don't want to talk about the economy, but I understand your pain, since y'all screwed it up so royally over the past 8 years."

mcgramps new slogan, "I was an insider before I became an outsider."

McGramps? But...isn't Palin running for President...I mean...I see her everywhere....

Maybe we should reword this song for palin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_hkIN38qnY

I know it's not polite, but why don't they just call these people what they are -- liars and idiots?

It is so disheartening watching a professional talking head jousting with a thoroughly dishonest cretin like this woman.

Lipstick? Nail polish? Rouge? Mascara? Botox? Surgical face lift? It doesn't matter what you do to this person, in the end she'll still be just a creepy, idiotic, blowhard.

oh really @ 147:

I know it's not polite, but why don't they just call these people what they are -- liars and idiots

Because it would be an insult to honest liars and idiots.