[Miss Marple]

No, the media doesn't care, but that isn't what's important. As long as the White House doesn't answer, the lie stands and falls into the public consciousness as the truth.

I have come to agree with Peach, although I have long argued with her about this. I used to think that it ws better to ignore this junk because answering it gave it some validity. As we can see from the poll numbers, this was the wrong strategy, and the White House is apparently changing course.

Scott's fighting back does two things:

1. It gives us a story, even if it is only in a trade paper and buried on the back of the Post.

2. It encourages the Republicans who have been slogging away in the trenches for so long, wondering why the President doesn't answer.

[hole_n_one]

Where we differ is in the characterization of Scott's "fighting back".

I don't think that simply stating the facts and then asking for an apology is enough.

The media won't report the facts, and the request for an aplogy is met with and portrayed as a pathetic attempt at a defense without merit.

The WH has all the facts and it's time that they shove them down the media's throat until they gag...........and die.