Obviously we all know this is, and have known it for many years now.
But it's funny to watch some of those in the press, particularly David Gregory (formerly Chief White House correspondent from 2001 until fairly recently), flop around trying to awkwardly laugh off the idea that they may have failed in some way.
I only saw a couple of minutes of Gregory on MSNBC's Hardball earlier today, but it was all I needed to see of his pathetic attempt to deflect the possibility that he could have done a better job with his questioning and reporting. He said he and others pushed VERY hard and asked all the tough questions and that we need to ask where the Congress was, what public opinion of the war was, what Bill Clinton thought about it, etc.
He added that McClellan sounds like those on the far-left (dismissing them both), and that the charges are ridiculous. Then some chump from Politico (Mike Allen) chimed in to defend Gregory and the rest of the media.
The bigger question for me is how the overall media will handle this story. Will they give it the much needed honest reflection it deserves (particularly WRT the failure of the media and ideally lessons learned), or will they pretend it's overblown and irrelevant like David Gregory (and
Mike Allen of Politico) is trying to do?
I think I know the answer but hopefully I'll be proven wrong.
PS---The only concession from Gregory was that the press was "manipulated" with regard to weapons of mass destruction.
posted by ihavenobias 
