Hah :) Seriously, though, it seems a bit of leap from the existence of confirmation bias to explaining away the public outpourings of US Politicians about thei

Hah :) Seriously, though, it seems a bit of leap from the existence of confirmation bias to explaining away the public outpourings of US Politicians about their financial crises and foreign policy disasters - in the absence of better data as to just why the given statements were made ascribing this to confirmation bias seems itself open to accusations of confirmation bias! :)