In bed with Bush

I almost puked while I was watching Hardball last night. There was Tweety Matthews, together with a couple of MSNBC legal "experts," all of whom had been to the President's Christmas party the night before. They were oozzing all over the place about what a great party it was and how much fun it was to pose for pictures with the Prez. The two legal "experts" opined that it was probably okay for the Prez to have ordered illegal wiretaps on American citizens without warrants. Tweety said that Bush deserved to have his bust on Mt. Rushmore, given how well democracy seems to have worked in Iraq.

This is a perfect example of the problem with the main stream media these days. They are so embedded with the people they are reporting about that they can't muster the healthy skepticism they need to really do their jobs. Even Bill Keller of the New York Times said yesterday, in an effort to justify the one year delay in reporting on the NSA spying story, that the White House officials had assured the Times that everything they had done was perfectly legal. And the Times just accepted those assuances?

I have a mind to call Keller to see if I can sell him this bridge over the East River.