Bush - Why should the American public trust you anymore? - WaPo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

IT"S THE CREDIBILITY STUPID!

President Bush's fundamental challenge as he tries to regain his political footing is that most Americans don't trust him anymore...

...And yet, when Bush faces the press corps -- either en masse, in a news conference, or in the occasional sit-down interview -- the central issue of credibility typically goes unexplored...

...It seems to me the trick would be for the next news outlet that gets a sit-down with the president to devote an entire interview -- a la Oprah v. Frey -- to the issue of credibility. And to be prepared with quotes and clips -- a la Stewart -- to force Bush to directly address the various inconsistent, misleading, or outright false statements that have peppered his presidency.

Such an interview could still be wide ranging, of course. It could cover the issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction; his descriptions of the run-up to war; his views of progress in Iraq; his statements -- and then silence -- about the CIA leak investigation; his concealment of -- and then questionable assertions about -- domestic spying; his promises for New Orleans; his stonewalling on the Abramoff lobbying scandal.

I could go on.

...Then again, there's another possibility: A reporter could get up at the next press conference and ask a very simple, very basic question: Why should the American public trust you anymore?

At least 53 percent of Americans would like to know his answer.

And per chance someone could get bu$h in such a situation, there would be a mysterious power failure followed by some small plane crashes, heart attacks and questionable suicides.

Froomkin's premise.

I have no doubt an awful lot of Americans would love to see this happen, but everything Chimpy McYellowstain does is scripted.

It'll never happen even though it should.

No one in the corporate American media has balls to take this miserable excuse for a human being on.

1 No

2 NOOOOO

&

3 HELL NOOOOO

After all, none of little lord pissypants' actions rise to the level of a blow job from a consenting adult!

Anyone who ever trusted him to begin with is already operating with a deficient and/or compromised set of standards by which to gauge trustworthiness.

(unless the corporate masters of Murkan government decide to get rid of king george)

plus, he is utterly incapable of speaking the truth, so asking him questions about his credibility would just create a "black hole" of more and more and more lies that might actually swallow the universe whole.