Reply #5: If they thought they'd bring their poll numbers UP ...

[NanceGreggs]

... by trying to bring Helen Thomas DOWN, that strategy is about as well-planned as their strategy in Iraq.

Thre new talking point is, of course, blame the media - because that's been the MO of this Administration from day one. EVERYTHING that goes wrong is someone else's fault.

If things are going as well in Iraq as Bush says it is, why they don't they show us photographs of the new schools and hospitals that have been built there, up and running without any problems? Why don't they show us fuzzy-warm video clips of Iraqis shopping merrily in downtown Baghdad, without fear? Why don't they film interviews with Iraqi citizens, extolling the fact that they now have full-time electricity, clean drinking water, and a thriving economy?

The answer is all too obvious. They can't show us these things, because they simply don't exist.