I sensed a similar murk of falsification and vituperation in the reportage surrounding the stellar speech of Tuesday. The articles that appreciated it for what it was were few and far between. THose who treated it as a tactical manuver, another twist in the endless positioning battle, or worse, were in the majority. The speech itself was so lucid and accurate and rhetorically fine, that in contrast the interpretative clouds laid over it by the media are remarkable as indications of the deep, inbred, stupidness of our major media forum.

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