Press Corp Quagmire

The White House Press corp are trapped in a narrative and they can't get out.

Let me put this in context with three contentious issues -- one economic, one cultural, and one on foreign policy. In each case, President Bush took a clear stand. In each case, he was accused of stupidity or stubbornness and sometimes both. In each case, the facts on the ground increasingly bear the president out, sometimes dramatically. Yet the beat goes on -- with no sense of the great irony that it may be our writers and pundits who are stubbornly clinging to old assumptions.

I was not quite surprised a couple of years ago when a large plurality of Americans indicated that they believed that we in an economic recession when in fact the economy was historically robust. Where do you suppose Americans got such inaccurate information?