[JasonC]

Has to get Bush off the next day's front page. So it has to come within the same news cycle. It is an excuse to give the media a chance to not record the Bush speech and accompanying bounce.

But nobody will be watching at 1 AM. It is newspaper thinking in a cable and internet age.

[CFC__VRWC]

But nobody will be watching at 1 AM. It is newspaper thinking in a cable and internet age.

Even that doesn't make sense - midnight's beyond the deadline for most of the major papers' morning editions.