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"If there's one thing the Bush administration can really be blamed for, it's not predicting and being prepared for the bile from the media."

First off, how do you know they didn't predict it? Considering that Bush showed off a copy of Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" to the media as they photographed him well over a year ago, I think he made his point quite well there.

Secondly, assuming it is predicted, how exactly do you propose someone can be "prepared" for it?

IMO, he knew it was coming, and he -was- prepared. That's why he didn't try to ride the Salman Pak story, to the chagrin of so many conservatives who believe that it was evidence of Iraqi participation in 9/11 or at least cooperation with Al Qaeda (as I do). Bush could've rested his case on that, or several other things, but the fact is, they were not CONCLUSIVE evidence. The Left, through their infernal propaganda tactics, has raised the bar of "evidence" to the point of insanity. "Preponderance of evidence" is no longer sufficient. Even multiple data points is no longer sufficient. The only acceptable evidence is the "smoking gun" now - where a SINGLE data point, a SINGLE piece of evidence, must be, by itself, so overwhelming that it proves the case all by itself.

Suffice it to say, any criminal who was ever convicted on a single data point, no matter how damning, would have a hell of a grounds for appeal. There's a reason "preponderance of the evidence" matters in a court of law. But it doesn't matter to the media. How exactly was Bush supposed to "prepare" for that?

It's impossible. The media propaganda war is so monolithic that it is itself impervious, because it acts as a filter through which anything Bush could say (including about -them-) gets diluted, deconstructed, misrepresented.

There's only one thing that Bush -can- do... hope the people see through it, and thanks to the growth of the conservative media these last few years, there is at last enough information available for people to see through it. But the media will never just -give- it to anyone- it has to be hunted for.

The only way to combat the media monopoly is to hunt down the evidence that the media is lying, and -insist-, on a personal level, to the ignorants who just sup what the media tells them that they must look at it. Grassroots is the only effective solution. Government cannot be the answer. Censoring the media propaganda would be counter-productive.

No, it's not up to Bush to counter the media monolith. The guy's got his plate full anyway. It's up to us.

Qwinn