The latter speaks to another question many of our readers seem to be asking: does Beck really believe what he says on the air?
Mr Blair will survive, but, unless those weapons are found, he will pay a price: people will be less inclined to believe what he says in the future.
If he believes what he says then he must also believe that 230m Americans, in other words the 80% of Americans who aren't fat cats, are saps, too idiotic to realise that their lives are miserable or so dulled by television and shopping malls that they cannot do the sensible thing, which is to emigrate to Europe.
"You know, I really admire you for standing up for what you believe, " he says.
"I didn't believe what he was telling me about substantive things, " says Foster, who won't elaborate.
And, this seems to be totally under the radar, and it doesn't matter what any politician does or says or pretends to believe, if he's not accountable to the constituents, we will never have accountability in Washington.
Whether he believes what he says or not and there are reasons to believe his barbs are Machiavellian in nature, simply a way to get the upper hand on his rival is rather immaterial.
"If I'm trying to keep things secret, it's impossible to talk to these specialists without them saying, 'Oh, my God, you wouldn't believe who was here today and what he was asking, ' " Mr. Brown says.
If Mr Bush means what he says about the next chairman being politically independent, then we believe the best choice would be Don Kohn, a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, who is not affiliated to any party.
"I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time, " he says.
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But no matter how often he says these things, many people will not believe him, just because of who and what he is.
"What I had to do was present an idea that was so interesting and so alluring that everybody could believe in it, and the idea of a motion picture scouting party was what I came up with, " he says.
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The Governor says that he is not going to allow the top 5 percent -- I believe is what he said -- to have a tax cut, that it will all even out, that what he wants to do is give that tax cut to the middle class.
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