Boy, this is sooooo 2004.
NORAH O’DONNELL: I asked her about the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that we have out today that essentially says only 2 in 10 Americans approve of the job that the president is doing on Iraq. And Mrs. Bush defended her husband vigorously. Take a listen.
LAURA BUSH: It is not encouraging coverage for sure. There’s no doubt about it. But I do know that there are a lot of good things that are happening that aren’t covered. And I think that the drum beat in the country from the media, from the only way people know what is happening unless they happened to have a loved one deployed there, is discouraging.
O’DONNELL: She says that she hopes that there is “more balanced coverage by the media,” in her words. She also said “I understand why the polls are what they are” she says, “because of the coverage we see every day in Iraq.”
All that's missing is wailing about all those new schools being built, and Laura can bring us back to the Iraq "debate" circa 2-3 years ago.
But this is all the Bush Administration has left -- sending out the still-popular Laura to try and make their case for them, hoping she can make people somehow overlook this, and this, and this, and ... you get the point.