[I see my hands]

"Given the position they have staked out for themselves, the best possible outcome is for Gen. David Petraeus to give a downbeat report on the surge"

Regardless of his words they will be reported as being downbeat.

[MHGinTN]

This cartoonist had it perfectly right:

[ballplayer]

Well I guess Rudy will have the question he asked in the first debate answered,If there is progress reported in september will the main stream biased left wing journalists report it ?
We all know the answer to that one, they will report it all right and then comes the big BUT...