If it doesn't reflect well on Bush, it isn't true

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent post up on how Bush defenders respond to unflattering news:

If you're one of the few loyal Bush defenders who are still around, and a fact is revealed which casts a very negative light on the administration, what do you do? Easy - shut your eyes really tightly, put your fingers in your ears, and just petulantly insist, based on nothing other than faith and desire, that it's not really true. Attack the motives and character of those involved. Threaten those responsible for disclosure of this damaging information with imprisonment. And then insist some more that it just can't be true.

He goes on to show how this played out when the news that Valerie Plame was working on Iran came out yesterday. Read on: