Word: liar
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...then in 2,000 pages of riveting testimony, Perez yanked back a curtain on a dark, dime-store-novel world in which cops routinely frame the innocent by planting ("throwing down") drugs and guns, smack around ("thump") citizens on the street for kicks and perjure themselves ("join the liar's club") to get convictions...
...Gore shares with Bush a tendency to trim the edges, smudge the details, grasp at qualifiers and embrace technicalities. But what if Gore has to face the straight-shooting McCain in the fall? Since Gore linked up with that Clinton fellow, labeled "an unusually good liar" by Senator Bob Kerrey, the Veep's grip on reality has, shall we say, loosened. You can see the wheels turning. Sure, honesty is the best policy. What's the second best policy? He saw the potential of the Internet early, but invent it? He and Tipper the models for Love Story...
Gone were the nutritious, high-policy debate-club encounters of recent weeks: Wednesday night's match was petty and bitter, as Bradley all but called Gore a liar and Gore all but called Bradley a whiner and a fraud, while both insisted none of this constituted a "negative attack." Of the two, Bradley was playing for higher stakes: he was the one with the most ground to make up after Iowa, and he was the one who risked looking just like any other desperate politician. Except that he doesn't have the halo of the greatest economy ever shimmering above...