The latter speaks to another question many of our readers seem to be asking: does Beck really believe what he says on the air?

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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.

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"You know, I really admire you for standing up for what you believe, " he says.

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"I didn't believe what he was telling me about substantive things, " says Foster, who won't elaborate.

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"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.

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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.

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"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.

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"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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