We’ve said it before: George Bu$h lies. He lies on a daily basis. He lies to hide things: his real agenda; why he chose to invade Iraq; what’s really happening in Iraq; what’s really happening in America, and to America; why he wiretaps all Americans, with special emphasis on what we laughingly refer to in this country as “journalists” and of course Democratic Senators and Congressmen and by extension Democratic, Liberal, and Progressive Americans who speak out publicly about the evil in Bu$hCo.

Some say George Bu$h is incapable of speaking the truth.

Eric Alterman, writing in The Nation, explores this phenomenon of George Bu$h’s unwillingness, or maybe inability, to ever speak the truth, and the inability of the media to call ‘bullshit’.

Once upon a time, only people with bad manners took note of the fact that George W. Bush was an inveterate liar. One such person, pundit Michael Kinsley, observed back in April 2002, "Bush II administration lies are often so laughably obvious that you wonder why they bother." Back then it was undeniable but all but unsayable in the mainstream media. Even when addressing himself to the very topic of Bush's myriad lies six months later, Washington Post scribe Dana Milbank combed his thesaurus and came up with "embroidering," "taken some flights of fancy," "taken some liberties," "omitted qualifiers," etc. But even this artful linguistic circumlocution so infuriated Karl Rove & Co. that the White House pressured the Post to reassign the reporter. When asked to comment on an incontrovertible, unarguable, prime-time presidential lie--Bush publicly claimed that Iraq would not allow inspections, when in fact the UN inspectors had to be kicked out for his war to begin--on CNN's Reliable Sources program, Milbank said, "I think what people basically decided was this is just the President being the President." What, after all, is the big deal about lying about why you started a war?

There’s much more to read, and it’s well worth taking a gander at one of the more honest and outraged minds in the country today.

Reading the Washington Post used to be like reading the Wall Street Journal. News articles reflected the truth about what was happening in the world while the Editorial pages spewed propaganda, often quite obviously fraudulent, supporting the Republican Party and Facsist thinking about how they plan to drag the country into something not-at-all resembling what the Founding Fathers had originally intended. Slowly whether by ideological design, or through outright economic treat, WaPo’s writers and reporters are buckling under to the demands of fakery and pretense issued by our White House.

We noted it here and the situation certainly hasn’t gotten better.