Actually, there are two main reasons why the liberal, biased slimebags in the so-called "elite media" will do all they can to smother all of these stories:
1. Ego, the need to be perceived as correct. This is what you mention above as their need to be right, or perceived as being right. After all, they are the elite braniacs and conservatives are the dumbed down results of public education.
2. Power. If these facts (and I emphasize FACTS), get out to even just a few percent of the undecideds, it could easily guarantee the election goes to President Bush. They cannot have that. They would implode. They NEED their power back at any and all costs. That means they will put you and I in harms way just for their power lust.
Unfortunately for them, these FACTS are starting to seep out, drip by drip. As hard as they try, the FACTS are still coming out. The next couple of months may quite possibly prove to be the time that the Democratic party completely went insane (ala ALGORE and DEAN) and began to shrivel up into a whimpering, smelly, sweaty ball of human waste.
Could all these FACTS dripping out now be an extremely well conceived plan by the Bush campaign, that they had a timeline and have stuck with it no matter how bad things looked? Maybe.
But, one thing I have posted for many years here on FR needs repeating now:
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE DEPTHS TO WHICH A LIBERAL WILL GO FOR POWER!!
What doesn't help are people like Bill O'Reilly who on his program last night still maintained that we haven't found any wmds. After the first few months of the war, Bill got on his high horse demanding that Bush produce the wmds to justify the war. Well we've started to find those wmds, but apparently O'Reilly chooses to ignore the news. I can't figure our why except for the fact that Bill stated that there are no wmds to a liberal reporter and now can't face the facts after discovering that he was wrong. He did a great job last night condemning that pile of excrement Moore about the lies of F-9/11, but then said that we still haven't found any wmds. I just about fell out of my chair and wanted to scream at him that YES!!! we have found them you pompous, self-inflated blowhard.