[an amused spectator]

They would have known if he stood in the garden of the White House (instead of at the radio microphone) and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we are winning. Here’s why...”

Yeah, "Mission Accomplished" II. That would have gone over big in Peoria.

The media was running a shadow government. It's really that simple.

[Dutchboy88]

Yes, but why? If he held a press conference every single day telling us the truth...eventually he would have prevailed. But, he rolled over to them. He gave the bizarre leftist communists such as Gregory, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, etc. the win. Only the coach can decide how to play the game, and he gave it away. Mission Accomplished was his job. When it was occurring he should have understood how desparately important is was to make certain the entire world knew. But, he signed up and didn’t deliver. Now...