Welcome, all good citizens, to a celebration of delightful ignorance, willful submission, and happy obedience—done fully in the blessed spirit of untruthiness.

1. Liars Know Truth, B.S.-ers Just B.S.: "It is just this lack of connection with truth—this indifference to how things really are—that I regard as of the essence of bullshit." —Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit (2005).
   
   
2. The Art of Doublethink: "The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary." —Emmanuel Goldstein in the suppressed "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" (quoted in George Orwell's book, 1984).
   
   
3. Black Is White, Night Is Day: "I'm a uniter, not a divider. I refuse to play the politics of putting people into groups and pitting one group against another." —George W. Bush interviewed by David Horowitz for Salon.com, May 6, 1999.
   
   
4. War Strategy Is Good P.R.: On the administration's rollout for the Iraq invasion: "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." —Andrew Card, interviewed by Elizabeth Bushmiller for the New York Times, September 7, 2002.
   
   
5. Scary Mushroom-Cloud Ploy: "There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." —Condoleeza Rice, in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Late Edition, September 8, 2002.
   
   
6. The Sixteen Magic Words: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. " —George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003.
   
   
7. Don't Worry, Iraqis, Be Happy "I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." —Dick Cheney, in an NBC interview with Tim Russert on Meet the Press, March 16, 2003.
   
   
8. Mouth of Mass Distraction: "We know where [the WMD's] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." —Donald H. Rumsfeld, interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, March 30, 2003.
   
   
9. Selling War Is Like Selling Toothpaste: "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction." —Paul Wolfowitz, in an interview by Sam Tannenhaus for Vanity Fair, May 9, 2003.
   
   
10. Reality Is a State of No Mind: A Bush White House aide (widely believed to be Karl Rove) said that the reality-based community consists of people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. . . . That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." —quoted in an interview with Ron Suskind, "Faith, Certainty, and the Presidency of George W. Bush," The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.
    
    

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