...of the trip Bush 1 took to Japan in the early '90s. Does anyone remember (how could you forget the leader of the free world barfing on Japnese dignitaries?)? Accompnying the former president/failed father on this trip were executives of the US auto industry. They went there to ask the Japnese manufacturers to bring the quality of their cars down a notch or three so that they (the US corps.)would have an easier time competing.

This sems to be the prefered approach by American corporations, including the media. Rather than do their job and tell us what's really going on, the MSM simply want to Xerox the GOP talking points and spew them as "news". Meanwhile, folks like Kos are putting out the truth. Instead of following suit and giving us a more complete and accurate picture of what's going on the MSM simply attacks the blogs. "Please stop doing such a good job of providing information to the public. If you don't we'll have to actually start doing our job in order to compete."

Well, the folks at WaPo and The NY Times shouldn't worry--as long as there are puppies to train and fish to wrap the major dailies will still be useful for something. As for news, however, there is just no longer any reason to take the MSM at all seriously.