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Lying Politicians in Countries Other Than America

9/20/2006 at 9:30 AM
Tags: politics, Budapest, Hungary (all tags)

Huge news broke this week in Europe. Brace yourself for this surprise: it turns out that sometimes politicians tell lies. It was confirmed by Hungary's prime minister Gyurcsany who got himself recorded on a now-leaked tape with gems like

We screwed up. Not a little, a lot ... No European country has done something as boneheaded as we have ... we lied morning, evening and night.

It's true, bad things have come from these lies, with demonstrations and some violent protests in Budapest and political turmoil and calls for the prime minister's resignation. But wouldn't it be perfect if everybody talked like this all of the time? Just imagine, the Parisian tourism minister's honest opinion: "Don't bother with the Eiffel Tower, it's just a lump of steel designed to take money from tourists." Or in New York: "We don't really recommend the Empire State Building--it's too effin' windy at the top." Not likely, is it?

[Image via AP]

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