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Kenneth Starr, where are you? Someone's lying in the White House again and this time — just like the last time you were in the headlines — the lie has nothing to do with national security (Timothy Noah in Slate):

"President Bush is a great leader and husband—but I bet you didn't know, he is also quite the poet."
—Laura Bush, remarks at the National Book Festival in Washington, Oct. 3, 2003.

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"Well, of course, he didn't really write the poem. But a lot of people really believed that he did."
—Laura Bush on NBC's Meet the Press, Dec. 28, 2003.

Now why on earth would anyone "really" believe that he wrote the poem? Because she "really" said so?

As Noah points out, "The first lady lies in order to make the president look ... stupid?"

Well, duh.

Here's our first take on the stupid poem, back in October 2003.

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