And yet again the media is the problem.

The President, his spokesguy, Snow -- what a great name for this administration's spokesguy -- and other mouths in and around the White House are pissed and calling for the villagers to take up torches and pitchforks against the NY Times, because the paper revealed to us commoners the secret snooping being done of world financial records, snooping that's been going on for five years, since just after 9/11. Treason, off with their heads, and other shit like that is wafting out of the Oval Office like smoke out of an RJ Reynolds office building.

"How dare the media put our very existence in jeapordy? We would have told you ourselves, but we knew that you wouldn't understand, so we decided that you would understand that we knew you wouldn't understand, so we didn't tell you, and now you're going to get it. Heck, we're even thinking of putting all you NY Times people in jail, maybe pair you up with some of those evildoers."

Okay, fine. Let's try this: the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and all the other major news distributors should stop covering the White House from the White House. Don't go to the briefing room, don't accept any of the pictures supplied by the administration, just go ahead and get your news from the wire, like many other news distributors do. S'okay, I think everything will be better, actually. These revelations that come down the pipe don't come about because of your face-to-face with Snow, or Chumpney, or Rummy, certainly not from Dubbney, anyway, so it's not really a loss there. The big stories come from people who know about these questionable actions and programs, and they have 'misgivings' about them, which is why they talk to you reporters. And these people who divulge these dark, deep secrets, they certainly don't make their contacts with the hard working investigative journalists via the White House, so, go ahead, you newspaper bastards, just leave. Let's see how things go without you.

Think I'll miss those beautiful pictures, the one's the peons who work in that Big House set up? Naw.

For everyone out there who may not be aware of it (this includes my father-in-law, who wouldn't believe what I'm about to write anyway), the stellar shots that appear in newsmags and papers, like the proud Dubya marching across the carrier flightdeck, 'victory' banner in the background, those shots are certainly captured by professional photographers, but they ain't left to chance. The angle, the lighting, the background, the colors, that shit is all laid out well ahead of time, and the people who capture those precious, historic moments are positioned by helpful helpers to do just that...just like one-on-one interviews with, say, the First Lady, how all those questions are cleared way before the interview takes place, just like Time, Newseek and other big mag cover stories about prominent, world-famous people are thoroughly reviewed, and mostly approved, by the subjects of the interview before anything gets into print.

Thus, my suggestion to the major journalism players is to leave the Administration to its own devices. Let 'em alone in there, and continue to do the great service that you do for us concerned readers, finding out the truly important shit that we truly need to know about, and that we wouldn't otherwise know because there are things that OBVIOUSLY the Administration has serious doubts about or they wouldn't go sneaking past the members of their own party-heavy committees and subcommittees to put these programs in place.

On another note, I didn't mention the Wall Street Journal in the above screed, because that's a newspaper with an agenda, and the agenda, in part, is about catering to a readership that does not include any of us making less than, oh, a decent, mid-six-figure level of yearly compensation. That agenda includes a particular slant on the news, and, ergo, that newspaper is welcomed in the White House with many open arms, and they might as well stay there. For instance, the WSJ had a few disingenuous, and flat out WRONG things to say about that nice Mr. Gore's latest film, and a wonderful breakdown of a smackdown of said WSJ piece can be found at http://thinkprogress.org/.

Ladies and gents, the whole climate change thing is just so well supported, why does the doubt persist? Oh wait, that's right, there's that whole big money, big industry, special interests fossil fuels thing...