[Jeff Higgins]

It's very predictable, the difference in credibility assigned by our liberal friends concerning the recently released documents referenced in the start of this thread and stuff like Rodeo jut posted.

While I will not dispute Mr. Manning's account of the private meeting between Blair and Bush, it remains the assertion of one man that these things were said. A man that very clearly has no reservations about making public things that were said in confidence, behind closed doors. It appears Rodeo has no trouble at all accepting this man's word as the truth; a man that has violated the trust of those who placed their trust in him. Of course the liberal press is more than willing to run with this, with no further corraboration required. They like it because it fits their agenda. They learned nothing from Rather.

On the other hand, we have recently de-classified information collected by our intelligence folks. Much of it collected pre-Dubya, in fact. What this intelligence reveals is questioned immediately by the left. They will not buy it until they see some kind of corraboration. It does, after all, fly in the face of their most dearly held beliefs. So they ignore it, hoping it will go away. They sure get all giddy at any "news" that indicates Bush is bad, rushing eagerly to report any and all of it. Their capacity to ignore any news that indicates Bush might have gotten something right is limitless. It's gotten just too darn predictable to even be fun anymore.