Once again, George Bush went before the world without a single idea in his head, just an earpiece in his ear feeding canned answers from Karl Rove. And once again, the press acted completely oblivious to the farce in their faces. When the truth about Bush's earpiece comes out, the entire corporate media will collapse with the Bush administration and the GOP.

Bush appeared to answer the first question from the AP - whether Iraq was in a civil war, as Iyad Allawi said this weekend - from his own head. But then his brain was too fried to answer Reuters reporter Steve Holland's question, so he tuned into the earpiece and mumbled his way through the answer.

Bush's reliance on his earpiece produced at least one glaring error: when babbling about the strategy of Al Qaeda, he first said they wanted to overthrow "modern" Arabic governments. But that was not the word Karl Rove had used, so in the next sentence he had to correct himself, referring instead to moderate Arab governments.

Now on to the "substance" of the press conference.

1. Helen Thomas hit Bush right between the eyes with the question Bush cannot answer: why the hell are we in Iraq, wasting thousands of American lives and trillions of America's taxpayer dollars?

Thomas pointed out that every reason Bush gave for the war turned out to be lies. She also pointed out that Cabinet officials like Paul O'Neill said Bush wanted to invade Iraq from the day he stole the White House.

Bush replied with his Biggest Lie: that Saddam refused to allow UN inspectors into Iraq, and refused to disclose all of his government's records on WMD's.

I have blogged about this Big Lie repeatedly, but the Corporate Media - and even most of the progressive blogosphere, with the sole exception of Robert Parry of Counterpunch - refuses to discuss it. It's time for the silence to end - it's time for the progressive blogosphere to start screaming about Bush's Big Lie.

2. FOX's Carl Cameron (the "journalist" who published invented lies about John Kerry and was never fired or punished) gave Bush a journalistic blowjob in front of the world with his ludicrously biased question on impeachment.

At a time of war, what kind of a message does it send the terrorists for Democrats to talk about impeachment?

Yet Bush's answer was still a catastrophe. First he dismissed censure and impeachment as purely political - this from a man who started a disastrous war that has cost thousands of lives and trillions of dollars for purely political reasons.

Then he tried dared Democrats to debate him on whether we should cancel the "terrorist surveillance program."

Of course this is another outrageous lie, because there isn't a single Democrat - not one! - who has called for an end to terrorist surveillance as defined under the FISA law, which was written specifically to permit terrorist surveillance.

The whole problem is that Bush is deliberately and openly breaking the FISA law to go beyond terrorist surveillance in order to spy on innocent American citizens!!!!

Russ Feingold has made this distinction abundantly clear in every word he has written. If Bush wants to debate his innocent citizen spying program on these terms, there is only one reply:

BRING IT ON.

Update 1: Progressive bloggers are beginning to wake up. Here's Josh Marshall:

Of course, that's not what happened. We were there. We remember. It wasn't a century ago. We got the resolution passed. Saddam called our bluff and allowed the inspectors in. President Bush pressed ahead with the invasion.

His lies are so blatant that I must constantly check myself so as not to assume that he is simply delusional or has blocked out whole chains of events from the past.