BOOK TV.ORG: "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)"

I watched the show on booktv a few hours ago. Hopefully, the video archive would be available next week on the website. I totally agree that we should be more judgemental toward our cultral environment, but the author's defense of President Bush and vice president Cheney seems not so convincing. He defended Cheney by claiming that the F-word was used in private. Right, a PRIVATE conversation on the senate floor.
The defense for Bush is based on the distinction between mistake and lying knowingly and that "I see no advantage of lying [about WMD]." Whether Bush lied has been discussed in a slate article. Whether we should call it lying or bullshitting, or a mistake, but the defense is rather weak. Nixon lied. Clinton lied. Lots of people lied. I do not think they lied because they saw or calculated the advantage of lying.