people of the lie

Patsy McGarry, styling himself Religious Affairs Correspondent of the Irish Times, has given another sublime demonstration in the art of synchronised mendacity.
McGarry was reporting a speech by the President of Ireland Mary MacAleese.
Mary McAleese had asserted that sex abuse was not a problem that arose primarily in Irish families or within the Catholic church.
Mary McAleese insisted that sex abuse affected all cultures and was broadly spread throughout every society.
I am no friend of Mary MacAleese's.
Her bodyguards are thugs.
Particularly the bald half wit with the infantile grinny face.
Pure lowlife.
And she herself is a wearisome Northern Ireland biddy who occasionally likes to pose Catholic in the futherance of her own career.
But her statement last week was clear and honorable enough.
She's obviously been reading The Heelers Diaries again.
She was warning, albeit belatedly, against the media's attempts to depict sex abuse as something arising solely in the Catholic Church.
Her statement could not be misunderstood.
But it could be deliberately misconstrued.
The duplicitous Patsy McGarry in his report pretended to believe she had issued her statement not as a criticism of the media but as a criticism of the same Catholic Church she had just clearly stated was not the primary locus for sex abuse.
McGarry took Mary MacAleese's clear and unquivocal reference to inaccurate media representations of sex abuse, and turned it on its head.
He wilfully pretended to believe she was not directing her words towards the media at all.
He reported that her statement was "apparently" a criticism of the Catholic church.

The motto of the Irish Times is: If you're going to tell a lie, tell a big one.

"Apparently" Patsy McGarry is their Liar In Chief.