Yegparian: Liars' Club Dissension

What do Presidents Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Armenian Genocide denier Abraham Foxman have in common? They’re all liars, it’s seems. But they’re also involved in the latest “open mic” scandal, when reporters heard the two presidents speaking over a system meant for interpretation that they didn’t realize was still live.

It seems Sarkozy, while speaking to Obama, called Netanyahu a liar (LA Times, Nov. 9, p. A3, “Sarkozy calls Israel’s leader a liar”). Now, I can’t vouch for the veracity of that pronouncement, but let’s assume it’s true, just to keep our quartet together.

You certainly know Obama’s a liar. He promised to properly characterize the Armenian Genocide as such, and has reneged thrice, on each of the April 24’s he has been in office.

Sarkozy ran on the promise of supporting passage of a law forbidding denial of the Armenian Genocide, then changed his tune once in office.

And of course, good old dishonest Abe of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and his “tantamount to genocide” comment—which is genocide denial, which is lying—is a past master at the art of deceit.

Here’s what’s funny. Liar Obama complains to Liar Sarkozy that he was disappointed at not being alerted to France’s intent to vote for Palestinian membership in UNESCO. This was after Liar Sarkozy complained about Liar Netanyahu being, well, a liar. We don’t know if there was any contact between Liar Netanyahu and Liar Foxman about this matter, though it’s entirely possible. But, Liar Foxman took it upon himself to express deep sadness and disappointment about Liars Obama and Sarkozy’s exchange about Liar Netanyahu. And, we have a liars’ loop!

Can’t these liars all just lie (or would that be lay?) in their bed of deceit together and get along? After all, they are, all four, playing on the same cheating team of duplicitous shame.

Contact whichever one (or more) of these liars you want, and tell them what you think of their ways.

Note: Please excuse the error that crept into my previous piece whereby I identified al-Bashir as Somalia’s, rather than Sudan’s, president.

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Garen Yegparian

Asbarez Columnist

Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.