[mburbank]

Yeah, unfortunately, people haven't minded outright lies from their politicians much since Nixon. I distinctly recall polls that found most people not beleiving the following things:

Reagan was telling the truth about Iran/Contra
Bush senior as VP was 'out of the loop' on Iran/contra
Clinton didn't have multiple dalliances with women outside his marriage
Hillary had no idea how travel records re-appeared

The thing that bothers me is not that we accept politicians lie whenever their mouths move, but that we seem to have lost perspective on what the consequences of those lies are.

W wants to say he hit his head when he choked on a pretzel while watching sports when the truth is he was masturbating watching porn, who cares? W lied to congress to get their approval to go to war and thousands of people die and the entire world is thrown into turmoil, that's a little more disturbing.

9 out of 10 people think the administration is lieing about Plame. Those are pretty heavy numbers, but the question is wrong. They should take those nine people and find out how many of them care that the administration is lieing about it.