Paul Krugman passes along the notion (picked up from ABC's weblog The Note) that

The Bush team has always had a credibility problem with some reporters because of their insistence on saying 'up is down' and 'black is white.'

and he adds

Once an administration believes that it can get away with insisting that black is white and up is down — and everything in this administration's history suggests that it believes just that — it's hard to see where the process stops.

Which reminds us of a great Ruben Bolling cartoon on the same theme (but a different topic). Check it out!
posted by Quiddity at 9/06/2002 08:07:00 AM