WTF Is It Now?!?

"To say that the president should be beyond criticism is both absurd and un-American. Contrary to some of his partisans' wishes, George II is not our king nor does his touch heal disease. In addition, contrary to the belief of some of the members of his cult, George W. Bush is not anointed by God." - Dennis McWilliams.





All the President's Lies
'George W. Bush is in a class by himself when it comes to prevarication. It is no exaggeration to say that lying has become Bush's signature as president.

'More distressing even than the president's lies, though, is the public's apparent passivity. Bush just seems to get away with it. The post-September 11 effect and the Iraq war distract attention, but there's more to it. Are we finally paying the price for three decades of steadily eroding democracy? Is Bush benefiting from the echo chamber of a right-wing press that repeats the White House line until it starts sounding like the truth? Or does the complicity of the press help to lull the public and reinforce the president's lies?

'One thing is clear: If a Democrat, say, Bill Clinton, engaged in Bush-scale dishonesty, the press would be all over him.' - Drake Bennett and Heidi Pauken, here.

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There was a scene in Blazing Saddles where the Waco Kid was trying to comfort the new sheriff after the townspeople pulled a Bill O'Reilly/Trent Lott on him: "You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know ... morons."

He could've been describing today's public.

According to a new study, 42 percent of Americans still don't use the Internet and the majority of them do not believe they ever will: its "too complicated and hard to understand." So they'll continue to get their propaganda news delivered straight from the office of Karl Rove.

God help us.