The Bela Lugosi of the House
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3380
From 2003
He is a fake, a phony and a complete fraud. He constantly stresses his victimhood: first as a Holocaust survivor in Nazi run http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=86 and then as a refugee when the Communists took power. He fancies himself as the leading human rights specialist on Capitol Hill. In fact, this odious so-called Democrat is a master of deception and propaganda and a wallower in corrupt campaign money.
Meet California Congressman Tom http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=480. The Gollum-like Lantos has launched his latest string of invectives at France, Germany, and Belgium. He said “the failure of these three states to honor their commitments is beneath contempt” and that he is “particularly disgusted by the blind intransigence and utter ingratitude” of America’s three NATO allies.
Lantos, who represents California’s 12th District (San Mateo), has a history of just plain lying and intimidating others in order to push his sordid agenda.He once told Clinton White House security chief Craig Livingstone, who was testifying before a House committee on the so-called “Travelgate” matter, that he should think about committing suicide. Lantos, who sounds a lot like Bela Lugosi, told the beleaguered aide, “At least Admiral Boorda had the decency to commit suicide,” a reprehensible reference to the tragic suicide of the Chief of Naval Operations.
And who can forget the last time Lantos shilled for a Bush war on Iraq? On October 10, 1990, Lantos, who laughably chaired the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, held a meeting during which a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who only went by the name Nayirah told a sobbing hearing room that as a volunteer for a Kuwait hospital she personally witnessed Iraqi soldiers yank new born babies from their incubators, steal the incubators, and leave the infants on the cold floors to die. Lantos, it turns out, was in on a little scam he cooked up with Citizens for a Free Kuwait and an entity Lantos chaired called the Congressional Human Rights Foundation. In fact, both organizations were rump entities set up by the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton, the same company that is now shilling for the Saudis to fend off all criticism of Osama bin Laden’s true paymasters.
Lantos, the consummate prevaricator, said that poor Nayirah’s last name had to be kept confidential or otherwise her family in Kuwait might face reprisals from Iraqi occupiers. Nice try, but soon it was revealed that Nayirah’s actual last name was Al Sabah and that she was the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States. But the disinformation soon caught on. George H. W. Bush traveled around the country condemning the Brute of Baghdad for throwing newborn babies on to the floors of Kuwaiti hospitals. Support for Bush’s war skyrocketed as a result.
http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen02152003.html