"There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish."

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Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

— William Blum