There are actually freepers who think that the MSM biased initial report was the position of President Bush himself! Hoo boy! Tough to deal with that level of ignorance around here.....
I ran into a few of those too and that's why I spammed the thread the other day. After just finishing Ari Fleischer's excellent book about his tenure as WH press secretary, I should have known that the media was spinning the State Department's official press release.
Ari detailed how the press would call him about a story they were writing and he would tell them their quotes were wrong, and they'd write the story anyway!
It's a book that can be used to point out the hypocrisy and lies of the leftists in the media and although we all know there's a big problem with the media, the book made me realize it's a MUCH bigger problem than I'd thought. And since I hate the media almost as much as the jihadists, that tells you what a good job Ari did pointing out the problems we have dealing with the press.