Lies, damn lies and beyond.

After the last few days, can there be any doubt in anyone's mind that Commandate El Busho and his minions are the masters of misinformation (aka "lies")? After some dissembling by John Snow, the true cost of the Medicaid drug benefit was revealed: $720 billion vs the $400 billion figure they used to sell the program. No doubt about it, from drilling in ANWR to achieve energy independence to those WMD's in Iraq, these folks bullshit with the best of them.

Not content to simply lie to the mainstream press, most of whom are dumb enought to act as if the Repubs are truthful, the Bushies have manufactured fake news reports, paid right wing talkmeisters, and dutifully call on the reporter from the Talon news agency, whatever that is, to disrupt any difficult questions that might arise at press conferences.

The mainstream press is grumbling about Talon and the paid political ads disguised as talk radio but will they do an expose on the Bush propaganda machine? I doubt it.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.