The Media Prepare Kerry's Excuse <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> Well, it's not hard to see what the media are planning to write as the story of this campaign in the event John Kerry loses. Joe Klein begins to seed the story in Time. The attacks on Kerry ranged from the reasonable—he certainly has empretzeled himself on Iraq—to the outrageous: Zell Miller's assertion that Kerry would take his orders from Paris. The Miller speech was the ugliest I've ever seen at a convention. It certainly trumped Pat Buchanan's 1992 "culture war" speech, in which the target was an abstract army of social...