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This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th. -- Actual GWB quote.

And that was the least of the idiocies he spouted in just a couple of sentences. Well, idiocies, lies, one of those things.

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Today's Daily Show clip, another older one. This one's one of my favourites.

Jon Stewart interviewing Bill Bennett about Gay Marriage.

It's probably the best interview Stewart's ever done. It's not the fall-over-laughing funniest one, but the best. The person he's debating is one of the top "intellectuals" (scare quotes deliberate) of the American cultural right. Watch how effortlessly Stewart demolishes his very very silly arguments, without getting angry, or loud, or the like. Wonder why cultural conservatives continue to push such very very silly arguments. Despair that they can do so without being challenged in such an effective way.