Does Right Now Agree with Michael Moore?

When "Fahrenheit 911" came out, talk show bloviators vilified Michael Moore for offering a picture of joyful Iraqis in the streets while Saddam was killing, rape-rooming and gassing his own people behind the scenes.

Today, Hannity, Limbaugh and O'Reilly, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, are slamming the press for showing pictures of car bombings, death and quagmiring while schools, hospitals and electrical grids are being constructed. And -- save showing the good stuff -- the press is emboldening the bad guys.

Yep. It's all about the press now. And I say it's about time we stop these news hawks from invading sovereign lands, misleading the public and other yada-yada-yada. I don't know about you but I'm tired of Christiane Amanpour's incessant planting of IEDs, Helen Thomas's pushing "Saddam Has WMD" speeches down our throats, and the worst, David Gregory's decision to send young men and women in harm's way without proper body armor. Damn you Fourth Estate! Damn your thinking that the U.S. Constitution protects you so you might serve the public trust as part of maintaining democracy.

God knows, the White House Press Corps' reckless need to ask questions of the administration and re-ask them when they're not actually answered (re: any Scott McClellan answer) signal the death knell to our freedom -- especially our freedom to know and think, um, what the administration would like us to know and think.

Right-wing talktress Laura Ingram puts misrepresentation of the Iraqi news on the backs of the cowards in the press, saying that to inform properly you must go out with Iraqi soldiers and not report from balconies. Though I don't know why she made the Iraqi soldiers Information Central, I agree reporters need to go where the news is. So do our reporters in Iraq. That's why they actually do what Ms I Spent 8 Days In Iraq says -- when allowed to do so by those in charge of balcony egress.

Still, I hope that the media starts showing the pictures of the good stuff like the Lords of Loud say.

And I can't wait till Monday morning when AM talk radio apologizes to Michael Moore.