AS CLEAR AS--PRETTY CLEAR--I MEAN--

Why oh why does W continue to say things that make him sound like the dumbest President since President Peter Griffin.
Today at a news conference Bush said--

he will reserve judgment about his administration's destruction of CIA interrogation tapes until several inquiries are finished.

That's not the dumb part. The dumb part is what he said about not knowing anything about the tapes or the destruction of them until this month--

Sounds pretty clear to me when I say I have -- the first recollection is when Mike Hayden briefed me. That's pretty clear.

Yeah, real clear. As clear as--

there's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.