From experience, I can see that a lot of the members of the media don't even do the five minutes of Internet work it would take to find out if they are right or wrong about something. And of course, many of them don't distinguish themselves in the areas of reason, logic, or the ability to form conclusions based on integrating unrelated concepts. Or, for those of you in the media: you don't think so good. Add to this a thundering butt-ignorance about history, science, or pretty much anything you don't pick up in journalism school, and you can see how we got here.

That, and the fact that the dearest wish of about 90 percent of the media is that the political career of G. W. Bush would die in agony of a sucking gut wound, tends to color the stories about Iraq and foreign policy.