Amazing Non-Discoveries

Query: Is Pumpkinhead Russert more like Jan Muller or Billy Mays?

Now that the New York Times has presumably been candid with its readers about shortcomings in its reporting on weapons of mass destruction and related issues concerning the Iraq war, will Tim Russert be candid with his viewers about accepting at face value Vice President Cheney's repeated assertions about weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein's supposed links to al-Qaida and 9/11, and Iraq's "imminent threat" to the United States?

In a handful of exclusive, one-on-one interviews on "Meet the Press" starting Sept. 16, 2001, and continuing into 2002 and 2003 (during a period when the vice president was doing no other television interviews), such assertions were made unchallenged and skepticism-free in what amounted to a series of infomercials for Bush administration war policy.

Perhaps we could be shown some video clips, a "Meet the Press" trademark, of the vice president's statements in this regard being embraced as gospel. -- Gene Kryzyznski, at Romenesko Letters

Sometimes soaking the country is the solution!