[OldFriend]

Rumsfeld wanted an open town hall meeting with NO screened questions.

His integrity shines as opposed to the slimy reporter's lack thereof.

[pointsal]

Send that reporter on a return trip to the Homeland.

[Howlin]

Readers should have been told promptly that an embedded reporter had helped frame a question

Helped frame?

How about "manipulated?" "Planted?"

He didn't just "suggest" the question; he handpicked the guys he took with him to the townhall and made sure that the guy who was picking the questioners picked them.

We hear the Dan Rather excuse: "But the question was valid."