This has been a week full of public lying. A funny thing happens to lies, though: often the truth comes along and leaves those lies in the poo-flinging category where they belong.

I interviewed Mary Mapes this week. Mary Mapes is the producer who got awarded a Peabody for uncovering the Abu Ghraib story. You probably remember her, though, as the "fired CBS producer" of a Sixty Minutes story that presented documents showing how Bush didn't fulfill his service obligations to the Texas Air National Guard during the VietNam war. She has never been discredited for her work on that program, though you won’t know it by reading right wing blogs. The book that was going to be written to disprove her supportive documents was announced on December 20, 2005, at Powerline. They haven’t returned my calls asking when it was to be published.

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