[mburbank]

Oh. Fine, I guess.

Another article in Slate posits the reason for the media frenzy over this particular lie (or trumped up piece of ill supported crap goes down better) mostly has to do with the fact the adminsitartion has the bed amnners to admit it's mistake.

I think that's certainly part of it, since the forgery story has been reported in small press for a couple of months now. It only aquired media momentum once Ari Fleischer admitted the infampous 16 words should not have been in the state of the union speech former ambassador Wilson came forward and said he investigated the overall claim and found it lacking over a year ago. The administration retalliated by telling syndicated columnist Bob Novak that Wislon's wife is a covert operative for the CIA, thus blowing her cover, potentially endangering her life and certainly destroying her careeer. I thought that was kind of sweet, even if it is illegal.


I would agree with you the huge frenzy is inappropriatte. Of course Bush lied. He's president of the united states and his lips were moving.