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  • Instead, the Dissembler in Chief keeps right on dissembling.

    Poll: 57% Back Dem Senate's Plan To End Iraq War 2009

  • First time, and probably last time, that I am in full agreement with the Dissembler.

    Breaking: Hostage Situation Reported At Hillary Campaign Office In New Hampshire 2009

  • If you decide not to follow Suggestions 1 and 2, above, consider changing the name of this blog to “The Billings Dissembler.”

    Change drug law David 2006

  • Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • The skilful Dissembler carried this on with the utmost Address; and if any suspected his

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Death, that I should e'er be seen with such a vile Dissembler, with one so vain, so dull and so impertinent, as can be entertain'd by honest

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

  • Dissembler: Woodhands try a little tenderness with guest vocalist Maylee Todd along for the ride.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Ben Rayner 2010

  • But it's worth noting that Dick Cheney, the Great Dissembler, claimed for months that documents would show the how torture worked in saving lives, and yet, while those documents were released along with the IG report, as Mayer says none of the information contained in them prove Cheney's hypothesis.

    Crooks and Liars 2009

  • During the president's Thursday address to a joint session of congress, R.p. Joe Wilson (R. SC) could have yelled Fabricator! or Dissembler! or Fibber! or Prevaricator! or Falsifier!

    Moonbattery 2009

  • When asked about his decision, our Dissembler-in-Chief told reporters, "I had to make a very difficult decision.

    It's good to be King 2007

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