Cheering tidbits lighten otherwise grim week

The third jolly event of the week was those other excitable fellows -- the Big Media White House reporters -- jumping up and down shouting "Death to Dick Cheney!" NBC's David Gregory, the George Clooney of the press corps, was yelling truth to power about why the Elmer-Fudd-in-gun-rampage story was released to "a local Corpus Christi newspaper, not the White House press corps at large.'' I know how he feels. I remember, like, four or five years ago -- early September, maybe second week -- there was this building collapse in New York and I had to learn about it from the TV because this notoriously secretive paranoid administration couldn't even e-mail me a timely press release. For an NBC guy discovering that some hicksville nowhere-burg one-stop-light feed-price sheet got tipped off before he did is like a dowager duchess turning up at the royal banquet to discover the scullery maid's been seated next to the queen.

Mark Steyn

The left and their willing toadies in the old media tend to be their own worst enemies when it comes to the Bush Administration. Their shrill, monomaniacal, hyperbolic screeching never fails to generate a sympathetic backlash. I also find it somewhat interesting as well as amusing that the period of time between the point that the old media commits its blatant hypocrisy and when it is exposed seems to be on an exponentially declining curve.