If Bush hoped to use his appearance on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” to restore his vanishing credibility regarding the war in Iraq, his National Guard stint, and his stewardship of the economy, he failed.

As millions of Americans headed to church, I sat down to watch what Calvin Trillin calls “the sabbath gas bags.” The big gas bag this Sunday–President Bush–was questioned by Tim Russert for an entire hour in the Oval Office. Yet, the gravity of the surroundings did little to obscure the fact that Russert’s pointed questions were met with the usual Bush meets-the-press treatment: mislead, deny, deflect and hide.

Fortunately, people who want the truth–not whitewashed, rewritten history–can click here to check out the Center for American Progress‘s valuable dissection of Bush’s appearance, “Claim vs. Fact: The President on Meet the Press.” It’s a valuable antidote to Bush’s deceptions and well worth circulating to both friends and foes.