Sunday, September 14, 2003

Why We Need Universal Mental Health Coverage

Reading the latest Salon, we learn that Tucker Carlson claims to be the victim of harassment by two mentally ill women. One is an midwestern accountant who alleged that Carlson raped her, then claimed it was someone impersonating Carlson. The other wrote "A Charge To Keep."

....Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard -- that I watched her hear -- she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane.

I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.

Okay, Tucker, but tell us something we don't know.

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