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Sounds like a fair and balanced account to me.

CNN, the broadcast networks, the NY Times (in particular), et al, have been predictably and preposterously freighted with the Bush-slept-while-New Orleans-sank ledes. Now comes Fox with a reasonable and unbiased conspectus on the story. Interesting.

The problem, which is attaining the absurdity of a Road Runner cartoon, is the frustration of the major media in their efforts to find, at last, the totemic spirits of Watergate willing, the one story that brings down the presidency. They keep hoping. One can almost see the mad glint in their eyes: this is it, and I'm going to be the Bernstein! The BBC's false story of ginned-up intelligence (costing them their CEO), the non-stories of Richard Clarke, Victoria Plame, Bush's National Guard records (which, in fact, became the very un-non-story of Dan Rather's demise. And you could certainly see the glint in his eyes!). But, those plucky fellas, like Wily E. Coyote, they keep flailing away, and each time taking one more hit in their credibility. If the NY Times keeps it up they won't have a reputation left, and if the LA Times keeps it up, they won't have a circulation left (except to west-side liberal acolytes of Robert Scheer).

If all they just sat back, took a deep breath, and did their jobs, then let the people decide. Hmm. "We report, you decide." That might work.