Reply #16: Self serving kick

[gratuitous]

Another response: I can understand why the corrupt Bush administration is so anxious to deflect public attention away from its abysmal record on education, the environment, foreign policy, the economy, managing the federal budget, women's rights, civil rights, crony capitalism, corruption . . . well, you get the idea. It's nothing to brag about.

But why are the media so complicit in the Bush administration's relentless and transparent tactics of fear and smear?