[leilani]

You're right. Only I can't figure out if some freepers are just knee-jerking on this story or it's merely their lack of familiarity with the crazy way Washington politics works which prevents them from grasping what's actually gone on with this hilarious 'contretemps'.

The whole country now knows about a story the MSM, other than a few lone outlets, had steadfastly refused to pick up until Tony Snow called it silly. In trying to help out Pelosi by saying "see, even Tony Snow says it's ok", the MSM just got rope-a-doped into finally committing into print that the speaker & her cronies had threatened to take away money for the troops unless she got her Flying Palace! Pretty smart, I'd say. (Maybe Karl Rove was actually behind this?)

[Pukin Dog]

The bottom line, is that by giving Pelosi the same aircraft that Hastert used, they are being completely fair.

The media is trying to assert that the White House didnt want to give Pelosi any aircraft at all.

By answering the way he did, Pelosi gets to stew in her own juices, with nothing left to use to attack the Administration.

It is probably that the Pentagon leaked the story to the media, and it was ignored, then they let Murtha rope-a-dope himself into where we are now, where Pelosi not dare mention the 757 again.