The Year of the Liar

Source: Salon.com, December 22, 2003 "The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth," wrote H.L. Mencken. Heather Havrilesky updates Mencken's thesis by examining some of the big liars of the year -- Stephen Glass, "reality TV," Jayson Blair, and of course George W. Bush.