“The best way to get the news,” says President Bush, “is from objective sources. And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff.”

To this horrifying statement one can only agree with Paul Krugman, writing in “A Willful Ignorance”: “Two words: emperor, clothes.”

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You no longer have to wonder who’s really running Washington.

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It’s been my impression for some time now that one of the major problems we have today is that the news is owned primarily by the Republicans. It is, after all, Big Business these days. (And see my previous post on Corporations.)

One of the reasons this is so bad is that they can not only “Wag the Dog” — they can swing the whole friggin’ puppy.

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When you see a picture like this and read the words that go along with it, you realize what a masterful manipulator the President is.

I mean, seriously, how many times do we watch the cute little first- or second-grader encountering the real world and yet we never cease to be inwardly pleased at the picture it creates? How can we doubt the sincerity of such a child? And if the child is misguided, or lying, or wrong, how can we refuse to forgive when we see that sweet little pouty face?

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When one person “misperceives” you and thinks you’re a duck, you can pretty much shrug them off. When another calls you a duck, maybe you still can. When a third person calls you a duck, it should make you a little nervous. If a fourth calls you a duck? You better start checking yourself for feathers.

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