Olbermann's Nexus of Terror, redux

Olbermann feels that this administration might be manipulating the mass media to deflect attention away from bad news. Nah! That's never happened before, has it? Only in the spring in fall of 2004 prior to the '04 election, when there were more color alerts than a Crayola factory; in the days and weeks prior to the '06 election (remember the announcement of the Saddam Hussein verdict?); and too many times to count since the start of the investigation into the Valerie Plame Affair, the firing of U.S. attorneys, etc.

What I find most amazing of all about these manipulations, when they happen, is the White House Press Secretary, whomever the sad sack happens to be at the time, going on TV and feigning surprise that someone would even have the thought that this administration could possibly ever even consider manipulating the news.

You decide, but there have been at least a dozen high-profile cases in Bush's second term where announcements were times to trump revelations of bad news. And in many cases, what's packaged as news to distract from the unpleasantness is often old news.

It's so wonderful to see that our mass media is still willfully playing the roll of cheerleader for our morally rudder-less president and vice president.