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Jon Carroll’s column about the Bush administration’s apparent fantasy of infallibility — that is, Bush & Company’s inability to admit having ever made a mistake — is so right, so lucid, I’d like to quote the whole thing. You can read it in its entirety here: George Bush is never wrong.

(That’s my title, not Mr. Carroll’s; I’m hoping Google will index the link text so that feverish Bush supporters looking for justification will search for “George Bush is never wrong” and find, instead, a strong suggestion that he is.)

Carroll writes:

I have a theory. It dates back to Watergate, the first great 24/7 media scandal. Nixon tried to stonewall, and he could not. Why? Because there were too many staffers whispering to too many reporters.

You could take two lessons from Watergate. You could learn that the cover-up is always worse than the misdeed and that cutting your losses is always a good idea. Or you could learn that you must exert much tighter control over your staffers and your documents.

Which of those two lessons Bush learned is an exercise left to the reader. Just remember, kids: George Bush is never wrong!