It never rains, it pours

Posted on May 24, 2004 by Gene

I just like to point out the unimportant (mostly) little lies that the White House tells, wondering if they are indicative of larger, important lies. They certainly seem to come up with these little white lies often enough, it really makes one wonder how often they lie about, say, oh, Iraq?
Today, there’s this little white lie, about President Bush’s bicycle mishap:

Spokesman Trent Duffy seemed to blame the accident on muddy conditions. “It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose,” he said.

But Daily Kos blogger Markos Zúniga did a little Web-crawling and found that it hadn’t rained in a week in Crawford. Here are the stats, from wunderground.com.