Last night I watched NBC Nightly News. Brian Williams is in Iraq "embedded" with US soldiers. The broadcast was a very upbeat report about how the current "surge" operation was being implimented and how things are improving. The half hour broadcast also announced that Bush would be speaking to the American Legion today to tout the "accomplishments" in Iraq. After the broadcast was over, I thought to myself that this would be a "good news cycle" for the Prez. then, overnight, reality hit yet again.
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Number one story this morning was the continuing Walter Reed diasater, and the ongoing investigation that will take place. Then it was announced that 9 more US soldiers died in Iraq, and that a suicide bomber killed at least 93 people and wounding over 150 more. Then just after Bush was finished babbling To the American Legion, the Libbby verdict was announced.
Piled on are the stories of Coulter and the meltdown of the rightwing, and that Sen. Domencini and Rep. Wilson may have tried to influence the recently fired Federal Judges.
I am looking forward to tonights spin on NBC. And I now realize that these guys can no longer have a "good news cycle." They are corrupt to the bone and after six plus years of malefeance they are being exposed as inept criminals.