Contingency plan #4 was activated this morning.
The more spineful of the news organizations bookend WH spokesflack Dana Prevaricator's slur with clips of Bush's fulsome praise for his mouthpiece McClellan. The choir will believe whatever they're told to believe, but I get the feeling that outside the "base" nobody's going to give the WH version the time of day. We've heard it all before, too many times.