I have heard it over and over.  From Bill Mahr, to Pat Buchanon.  They excuse the president under the assumption that "Politicians Lie" all the time to get what they want.

I seriously believe many Americans think the same way.  Its ok for Politicians to lie to us.  Most people didn't care when Clinton lied about a blowjob, and most people don't care now that Bush lied to take us to war.  Well the mainstream media seemed to care about the blowjob, but not the war.  But if you remember in 1997 when all this broke, polls showed that 75% of Americans didn't care whether clinton lied about a personal matter.

I am willing to bet that were a poll taken today showing how many people thought it was acceptable that Bush lied to take us to war, the numbers would be much lower, if the poll were couched in those terms.

But of course, the mainstream media is full of lazy pussies who refuse to ask tough questions.  When Iraq goes bad and our forces are overrun by insurgents - no were not there yet - I say we send all these douchebag journalists to fight the war they refused to cover.  Jonah Goldberg is a small target, he would do just fine in the military.

Posted at June 7, 2005 12:02 PM in response to Understanding our National Denial about Iraq