[cmccuist]

This idea that the president needs to read the paper to be informed kills me! Doonesberry and Maureen Dowd and the like have been mocking W about this forever. What could a fishwrap possibly contribute to the president's data base? As if the president doesn't have access to intelligence that is over and above what is available to reporters.

I can just picture in my mind W going into a briefing with his advisers and after it's all said and done he says "wait a minute Wolfy and Rummy, I need more information. Let's see what the New York Times has to say about Iraq." How arrogant do the fish hacks have to be to consider themselves part of the decision making process?!? Pathetic.

As a source of the pulse of the public, they can't even get that right. Is anyone except the press and the Dems still gripping about the prisoner abuse? Prisoners with bags over their head building a naked pyramid. Humiliating, sure, but it's a long way from torture. The NYT's has run 50 front page stories about that one.

They ran over 70 front page stories about the absence of women members at Augusta. WTF? Who picks these stories? Where's an editor when you need one?

Craig