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Let's face it folks, The dominant media elite is still fuming over the Florida debacle.

The dominant media elite is still fuming over the war on Iraq, Bush's neglect of the UN, the war against the Taliban, the tax cuts, the impeachment, the 94 Republican victory, Clarence Thomas, the Gulf War, Panama, the Bush Sr. landslide, Iran-Contra and Ollie North, Reagan's Central America policy, Reagan's landslides, Reagan's tax cuts, Ford, Nixon.... get used to it. We know for a fact that the media is made up mostly of lefties who care more for the cause then for the truth. That's life. As for Dubya, he took his case directly to the voters, and that's about as good as he can do. I doubt he's going to win if he thinks he can make the press see his side of the story. They're not interested in seeing his side of the story, they want to get Kerry elected. What Bush needs to do is give voters a good reason to reelect him, and that requires convincing people that the benefits of our activities in Iraq will begin to outweigh the obvious costs. He's in for a shock if he thinks that a so-called "wartime" spending spree is going to get him votes. He needs to rediscover what his principles are, state them clearly, and get his party to back him up so that the voters can see what they're risking in putting another version of the "New Democrat" in the white house. So far, he looks like he's bogged down the way his Dad was in '91, "whistling in the dark" and wondering why his base isn't clamoring to reelect him.

"I doubt he's going to win if he thinks he can make the press see his side of the story. They're not interested in seeing his side of the story, they want to get Kerry elected. What Bush needs to do is give voters a good reason to reelect him, and that requires convincing people that the benefits of our activities in Iraq will begin to outweigh the obvious costs."

You are correct. This will be tantamount to a war, and Bush needs to address all issues with an undaunted passion, or the media will destroy him. The writing is on the wall!

We just have to quit fuming over "how unfair the media is"
and fussing about it like there is ANY chance they can be
made to see reason. To them, 2 + 2 = 51, so we need to deal
with what IS rather than what SHOULD BE and respond
accordingly. We tend to want everyone to LIKE us so much
that we drop the ball. That, and the fact that there are
so many skeletons in the closets of the Senate particularly
that the representatives can't seem to do the right thing.
The left has too many FBI files with tidbits like Strom
Thurmond's indescretion and, goodness knows, they don't
want them getting out to the public until after the
person involved is dead and gone.

"These newspapers, owned and edited by these men, although free from the repulsive vulgarity of the yellow press, were susceptible to influence by the priviledged interests, and were almost or quite as hostile to manliness as they were to unrefined vice...they favored the removal of tariff on works of art; they favored all the proper (and even more strongly all the improper) movements for international peace and arbitration; in short, they favored all good, and many goody-goody, measures so long as they did not cut deep into social wrong or make demands on National and individual virility. They opposed, or were lukewarm about, efforts to build up the army and the navy, for they were not sensitive concerning National honor; and, above all, they opposed every non-milk-and-water effort, however sane, to change our social and economic system in such a fashion as to sustitute the ideal justice towards all for the ideal of kindly charity from the favored few to the possibly grateful many."
- Theodore Roosevelt