The greatest story ever told: (they wish).(media coverage of White House)(Cover story)

IF only wishing it were so could make it so. If the cosmos worked that way, the sharks of the mainstream media and their remoras in the liberal blogosphere would have uncovered that Dick Cheney did in fact drunkenly shoot that Texas lawyer for threatening to expose the administration's plan to abolish the Constitution, take over the world, and then drain away all of our vital bodily fluids. They would also have learned that Cheney shot the aged would-be whistleblower Annie Oakley-style, reserving his other hand for an amorous grope of a woman other than his wife in the unforgiving Texas brush. Had justice been served he would have been arrested, shirtless and screaming, at a Motel 6, like one of the perps on Cops. All of these things and so much more would have proven true if only NBC's David Gregory could click the heels of his ruby slippers together.

Alas, it was not to be. You have to pity the poor SOBs. Conservatives seem to have a lot more success at wishing the seemingly outlandish into reality. We claimed that Bill Clinton was playing baron-and-the-milkmaid with an intern, and despite months of denials it turned out to be true. Of course, conservatives--at least some of them--also claimed that Bill Clinton was smuggling drugs into Mena airport and had had countless people, including Vince Foster, killed. These ...