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Anyone have any thoughts on this? yes, I have some thoughts. First, as an aside, it's BALD faced, as in "a bald-faced liar," not BOLD faced, as in "bold-faced font." (Sorry) Second, it isn't very hard to get people to say just about anything when you point a camera at them. Do you doubt MSNBC's agenda? If they are not outright rooting for Saddam, they at least are trying to create a controversy, hopefully dividing the audience into two camps.

We saw this with the OJ trial. Anytime it started to look like everyone would think he was guilty or innocent, they would stick some talking head up there to analyze "probable cause," or "reasonable doubt." They did it during the Clinton impeachment. As soon as the general concensus was that he needed to be booted, the talking heads would come up with spurious arguments about personal realtionships and consenting adults, although such things have nothing at all to do with the subornation of perjury. So look to the cable news channels to divide us once again, just to try to get their ratings up.

One of the most gratifying things that I have ever seen was the abortive coverage of the Unabomber trial. I was working in a building next to the courthouse in Sacramento where the Kaczynski trial was to be held. The news media took a block of downtown real estate which was, conveniently, a parking lot, right across the street from the courthouse. I could see them from my window, and had to walk around them during lunch breaks. They had vans and trailers and generators and satellite dishes. They had lights and cameras and tents, all of which took a month to set up. All of the major networks were there, in all of their alphabetic splendor. It was like coitus interruptus for them when the announcement of a plea deal was made. It was a wonderful thing to see. All dressed up on Saturday night, and no place to go.

Do you doubt MSNBC's agenda? If they are not outright rooting for Saddam, they at least are trying to create a controversy, hopefully dividing the audience into two camps.

That's why I stay with Fox News. But this morning, Fox had on a Bush Basher.......I couldn't stand to listen to it, so I turned over to MSNBC for a bit. That is when I saw the interviews of the young Iraqi's defending Saddam. So I turned back to Fox.

They had vans and trailers and generators and satellite dishes.

Do you remember the Arsenic poisonings in New Sweden, Maine? It's way north. I spoke to the brother of the man that was accused of this, and he said that they couldn't leave their house..........all those news vans, trailers, generators and satellite dishes were set up in his front yard. For weeks and weeks. He even caught one of them with their ear up against the kitchen door trying to hear them inside.