As this post points out, coverage was similar for the financial crisis and the Iraq war. Journalists then defended themselves because someone somewhere raised doubts about the war. Forget that 95% were going the other way and the questioning story was in a smaller publication or on page 18.

But I thought that last excuse about investigative reporting was nuts. Is that why journalists never investigated the Bush Administration for 8 years? They were anticipating budget cuts that years later would make their jobs harder. Breaks my heart.

When was the last time you apologized to some guy who called your wife a name?

Not married.

Anyhow, I thought everybody had to apologize to Rush..for whatever. Has something changed? Didn’t I get the memo. Dang, I hate being out of the loop.

Interestingly enough, the AP is trying to spin the Chinese premier’s comments today as: Don’t you DARE do any more stimulus or spending packages! (This even though Krugman et al are saying that we need them badly.)

Check out the first two paragraphs:

BEIJING – China’s premier didn’t say it in so many words, but the implied warning to Washington was blunt: Don’t devalue the dollar through reckless spending. Premier Wen Jiabao’s message is unlikely to be misunderstood at the White House. It is counting on Beijing to help pay for its stimulus package by buying U.S. bonds. China already is Washington’s biggest foreign creditor, with an estimated $1 trillion in U.S. government debt. A weaker dollar would erode the value of those assets.

“Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I’m a little bit worried,” Wen said at a news conference Friday after the closing of China’s annual legislative session. “I would like to call on the United States to honor its words, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets.”

Over here economists have been saying this is the worst downturn since the Great Depression (thugh a few have argued it only compares with the 80s), so I don’t see his “little bit worried” as out of line at all.

If anything he might have said he was scared silly. But the Chinese are usually reticent to say such things.

That the AP would characterize it as a warning to Obama is just the way that damned Liberal press works to undermine the president. Unless they aren’t really Liberal at all, in which case the American public should wonder about all those Republicans who regularly claim the press is Liberal.