Krugman gets it

Honestly, he always has. Still think that the White House won't blatantly lie its way out of any stupid little thing? Then you should read about the shenanigans between the White House and CNN regarding a funny video from a Bush speech that Letterman ran earlier this week. "On Monday, Mr. Letterman ran a video clip of a boy yawning and fidgeting during a speech by George Bush. It was harmless stuff; a White House that thinks it's cute to have Mr. Bush make jokes about missing W.M.D. should be able to handle a little ribbing about boring speeches. "CNN ran the Letterman clip on Tuesday, just before a commercial. Then the CNN anchor Daryn Kagan came back to inform viewers that the clip was a fake: 'We're being told by the White House that the kid, as funny as he was, was edited into that video.' Later in the day, another anchor amended that: the boy was at the rally, but not where he was shown in the video. "On his Tuesday night show, Mr. Letterman was not amused: 'That is an out and out 100 percent absolute lie. The kid absolutely was there, and he absolutely was doing everything we pictured via the videotape.'" Bush has already alienated Howard Stern, who had been a big supporter in the wake of 9/11. Now he's alienated Letterman.