Lies and the Lying Liars

Is every single person who works at the White House a total liar? I mean, is it an actual pre-requisite for employment therein?

"Well, Mr. Adams, this all seems to be in order. Now, if I could just get you to step into this examination room, so Nurse Barker can verify that your pants are actually on fire, we'll go ahead and get you started."

While doing some advance work in a Mississippi town set for a visit from our President, two "government employees" lied first about being Fox News reporters and then about being Secret Service agents. They were neither (though, to be fair, being a Fox News reporter and a White House employee are pretty much identical jobs).

This morning, the Washington Post reports conclusively that Secret Service personnel did not falsely portray themselves as journalists while doing advance work in a Mississippi town Bush was set to visit. An earlier article from a local paper suggested this was the case.

No, it was instead "two government employees" who first impersonated journalists from FOX News, and then impersonated the Secret Service.

Jerry Akins, the Mississippean who was the butt of the joke, had told the Biloxi Sun-Herald two days ago that he had "assumed" the two men were Secret Service, after they showed him "blue porcelain lapel pins" and a third man confirmed they were "with the Presidential entourage."

Obviously, these guys never saw those Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints commercials from the 80's, or they'd remember that it's hard to live with a lie.

Actually, at this point, it might be some sort of insider White House contest about who can tell the most pointless or outrageous lie. You'd think Claude Allen would be a front-runner, not only swindling Target stores out of valuable merchandise, but then allowing the right-wing blogs to advance the story that it was his identical twin brother.

But now I'm not sure...Two doofuses masquerading as journalists and Secret Service agents...Is this a presidential administration or fucking Police Academy?