[Brad from Tennessee]

Call me a paranoid but I believe these waves of media and political negativism are coordinated. These events happened repeatedly leading up to the 2004 election. Remember that Mary Mapes was in contact with Kerry's campaign headquarters as she rushed the fabricated Bush guard story on to the air. Every major paper ran a version of the document story before it was exposed as a fraud. Many never retracted it. In this latest case you have a New York Times reporter, who is getting ready to sell a book on the subject, drop a manufactured news bomb the day after the successful Iraqi elections. Immediately the rest of the media picks up the chant along with the left wing of Congress. I have never heard such a racket over what will turn out to be a non-story. But it distracts the masses from the administration's achievements. The dilemma is that the watchdogs are the ones rooting through the chicken house. I'd like to see the e-mails that travel back and forth in just one hour between the New York Times, Newsweek and congressional offices.

[TCats]

Just because they are conspiring with each other doesn't mean you are not paranoid! :-)

You hit it right on the head IMO. That means we're probably both paranoid but right. (AKA as Skeptics or Cynics)

[digger48]

You're not being paranoid. You're being realistic.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Call me a paranoid but.....

Remember, being paranoid doesn't mean you are wrong and in this case you are right.

.... I believe these waves of media and political negativism are coordinated.