California newspapers made noise last week about the lack of "momentum" in Bill Simon's campaign. But they fell silent this week as Simon's campaign got a boost from President George Bush. The Los Angeles media paid almost no attention to Bush's campaigning for Simon in the state, focusing instead on the president's hastily-arranged commemoration of the Los Angeles race riots. Whether or not the Simon campaign showed "momentum" was suddenly a subject of no interest to California reporters, lest actual facts about his campaign muddy their Simon-momentum-on-the-wane story line. Thanks to the anti-Simon press corps, few Californians know that Simon...