I think Buchanan gives the White House Press Corps & MSM too much credit. I think the American people saw right through this story from the beginning. The MSM is becoming a caricature of itself, they're the boy who cried "wolf". Everything, and I mean everything, is a scandal. The more they scream, the more ridiculous and insignificant they become.
the american people voted for gore, at least half of them. very close to half voted for kerry.
you give the american people as a group credit for too much intelligence and, for that matter, detailed interest in the topic.