the media critic jack shafer said in a column that quote, "of course politicians and their campaignsven when called out. if you think otherwise, then they might have been speaking to you. you're looking for truth in all the wrong places." is that realistic or cynical or both? >> if you say that candidates are willing to lie in order to be elected, are you saying that when they govern as president, we have just licensed them to lie to us? because we have said as a public that we think that lying is acceptable and we're willing to be duped. i worry when campaigns assume that deception is just part of normal operating procedure. i wonder whether the candidates actually understand what the knowable is and are in touch with it. i wonder when they're confronted with the need to look at evidence in order to make a judgment whether they're actually going to do that or they're just going to listen to their pollsters and ask the question, "what can i sell?" instead of "what's the right thing to do, given the available, knowable facts on the ground." if we give up on the idea that campaigns nee