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One of my favorite chapters in Al Franken’s current bestseller, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, is now online: The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus.

I am struck again by how searing this cartoon is. It highlights more effectively than a whole lotta preachin’ (IMO) that this is indeed the “Jesus” many in the Christian Right have fallen for, and that he is emphatically not the Jesus of history, scripture, church tradition, or present reality.

[via Tristero]

In an interview with CalPundit Kevin Drum, Dr. Paul Krugman (one of my favorite New York Times writers) says concerning the difference between previous presidential lying and that of the present Bush Administration:

Excellent interview, well worth reading. (Most of the comments after the interview aren’t, though, so save your time — after the first few they’re mostly right-wing yippage from people who insist that things that are flatly not true are true, that black is white, up is down.)

Telling the truth is a virtue, despite what U.S. conservative leadership would have us believe. Spinning a web of lies is not. Promoting intellectual dishonesty is not. I very much appreciate Paul Krugman — and Joe Conason and Al Franken and others — for pointing this out skillfully and intelligently.