Reply #44: Yeah, I agree.

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All this is based on the assumption that the press acts
independently and in what it considers to be the public interest.
They are dumping on Shrub now because he has screwed the pooch
so extravagantly that they are impelled to start cutting their
losses. Scapegoats will now be disembowelled and sacrificed on
the alter of the "public good" until the illusion of integrity
in the political process is restored. The international political
damage does not appear to be repairable, and adjustment to that may
take much longer.