Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the newly-minted Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was on CNN earlier today, redefining the word "corrupt" while lying about his past statements about the Obama White House:
JOHN KING: But you have called them corrupt, sir. You just twice used the word "misused." That's a judgement on your part and you will have subpoena power, you can have hearings, you can call up the witnesses and we will see what the evidence shows in the weeks and months ahead. Was it wrong to use the word "corrupt," which you have used repeatedly when you have not yet had a hearing?
DARRELL ISSA: I think people misunderstand the meaning of the word corrupt, and obviously CNN does. Corrupt, or corrupted, or failure. It's no different than a disk drive thats giving you some bits that are wrong. I've never said it's illegal, I've never made any of the statements that are often said on CNN, uh, that imply wrongdoing of the President at a criminal level.
First, the definition:
cor·rupt [kuh-ruhpt]
- guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked: a corrupt judge.
... and second, from just a five-minute Nexis search:
- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): "Just how deep does the Obama White House's effort to invoke Chicago-style politics for the purpose of manipulating elections really go?"
- Issa: "That will make all the difference in the world. I won't use it to have corporate America live in fear that we're going to subpoena everything. I will use it to get the very information that today the White House is either shredding or not producing."
- In an e-mail with the subject line "The Sestak Affair - Obama's Watergate?", the ranking member on the Oversight and Government Reform committee [Issa] ... says the allegations would amount to three felony charges of bribery and corruption.
And then Issa scurried back to the Capitol to get started on the 280 investigations a year that he has vowed to hold on the Obama administration ... not that he's implying any wrongdoing.