Reply #44: Thanks for the link. Wish most TV reporters would not pretend they do not know that.

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It is really annoying to me to see the famous news-chat pundits interviewing Republicans who were so very wrong before, not challenging them on their past mistakes. Just pretending they still have credibility based on their shallow images-- McCain was a soldier; he was "a maverick" --rather than including their dismal failures in the conversation.

I wish some of them would challenge these GOP icons-- "You say our president should increase our troops in Afghanistan, but you were one of the loudest urging our country to turn away from Afghanistan and invade Iraq and that has been a disaster. Why should anyone believe you now?"

There have been so many instances in which GOP blowhards have pontificated on our major TV news chat shows without being challenged on their past mistakes.

Yes I know our major broadcast media have been successfully consolidated into right wing hands. That reality is really depressing these days when we really need the GOP's failed ideas to be challenged in a forthright manner. We need to make many serious changes in our foreign policy and our president was recognized by the Nobel prize committee because he has begun that process. But then we still have the "Go Go Invade Iraq!" team brought onto the media to give their views on military strategies even though their views bankrupted our country and created far more America-haters than their recommended actions killed. The GOP is the Party of War Criminals who practiced torture in our name. They don't deserve to be questioned with the polite respect given to them by our conservative-dominated media.

So frustrating. Every reporter should be doing what Frank Rich has done in his article. Part of each of their interviews with those fierce advocates of failed policies should be a review of their previous disastrous advice.