[Barset]

"...They are not going to 're-make' the Nixon years."

No, but Gergen and the rest will use every opportunity to mislead and befuddle the public into accepting their spin on W's administration.

Someone ought to ask those fat-heads "when will you know what most rational people have learned" that your shoddy personal ambitions have destroyed whatever character you may have once possessed, and your rubbishy, self-serving propaganda has blighted the political landscape long enough.

They have "delusions of relevance."

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[Southack]

"Gergen and the rest will use every opportunity to mislead and befuddle the public into accepting their spin on W's administration."

They can push their spin quite hard right now while the Grand Jury secrecy laws prevent all of the players from setting the record right...but the Grand Jury ends in October, and that will bring down the media's House of Cards.

Now, if this was an Election Year, that would make for perilous timing...but it isn't. We can easily afford to wait for the Grand Jury to take appropriate actions.

We *know* that Wilson lied, after all, when his first interview in 2003 specifically said that his wife wasn't involved in any way in sending him to Niger. So Wilson is busted, for starters.

Judith Miller is in jail rather than reveal the crime that she witnessed (i.e. leaking classified information). So she's busted come October, too.

Valerie Plame herself is in felony violation of the Hatch Act; her CIA front company donated $1,000 of taxpayer money on her behalf to the Democratic Presidential campaign...so she's toast as well.

Gergen and Gregory and the rest of the big-time "spinners" are going to be publically surprised and embarassed by mid-October. Until then, they get to continue sowing seeds of "doubt," small as they may be.