Bush is a liar, plain and simple. He says one thing and does another. What he says usually has no basis in reality. His whole administration does that same thing. They have had no fear that the traditional media would ever call them on their lying. For the most part, they've been right. The traditional media still finds it really hard to believe that Bush and his people would lie to them over and over and over.
Maybe, just maybe, that's changing. But it's only changing because the lies have been so blatant that they can't be ignored:
President Bush insists a president "better mean what he says." Those words could return to haunt him.There's a weird dynamic that takes place when someone is lying. Most people don't lie, they may exaggerate a little, but they don't blatantly lie. So when someone does lie, it's often the person who accuses the liar who looks bad. The Bush people figured out how to play that to their advantage. But too many lies are being exposed. And too many people died because of their lies.
After long denouncing leaks of all kinds, Bush is confronted with a statement - unchallenged by his aides - that he authorized a leak of classified material to undermine an Iraq war critic.
The allegation in the CIA leak case threatens the credibility of a president already falling in the polls, and it gives Democrats fresh material to accuse him of hypocrisy.
