Would any lie be too outragous?

One more thought on "its never been stay the course":

Imagine Bush making a more substantively outrageous statement than to claim that he's never espoused a 'stay the course' strategy in Iraq.

For example, imagine that in some future interview, next year, or maybe five years from now, with George Stephanopolus or Brian Williams or Bob Sheiffer, the President says, "Well, now, [George/Brian/Bob], we never claimed Saddam had WMD's."

The crux of this little thought-experiment, for me at least, is that although I can't really imagine even Bush making a statement like that, what I can imagine is the interviewer responding non-commitally or with a non-sequitur, much the way George Stephanopolus did last week when Bush made his insane claim.

In a previous post, I described the careless attitude Jim Lehrer and Ben Bradlee have towards acknowledging falsehoods made by powerful people, and I think this destructive obsequiousness is widespread in the news media.