The Nattering Nabob

You know, I have said before that the astonishing thing about Bush isn't that he lies, but that he lies about EVERYTHING, even if it's trivial. You remember a few months ago, when they actually were petty enough to lie about a kid yawning during one of Dubya's speeches?

Well, corrente picked this up from the Daily News. The guy even lies about playing rugby.

Like a typical punk, his whole life is a quest to prove his pathetic manhood.

"With all the controversy about John Kerry's Vietnam medals and ribbons, who'd have thought that loyal George W. Bush aide Karen Hughes would be the one to catch the President fibbing about a supposed varsity letter? In her new book, "Ten Minutes From Normal," Hughes recounts a conversation with Bush after Russian President Vladimir Putin grilled him on his Yale days.

"President Putin knew you had played rugby, but he didn't have the context. I mean, you just played for one semester in college, right?" Hughes said.

Bush corrected: "I played for a year, and it was the varsity."

Yesterday, a Yale spokeswoman confirmed that there's no such thing as varsity rugby at Yale - not when Bush was an undergrad in the 1960s and not today."