One local station ran the press conference in it's entirety, which is the local ABC affiliate. The news director of that station also made the very fair decision last week NOT to feed into the local media outrage campaign frenzy, and focus instead on the fact that they had reported prior to the memorial that people should expect exactly what they got, barring Rick Kahn's remarks naming Republicans in the audience.

I mention this because it isn't as if no video was shot of the press conference, and the national networks pay for the feed from local networks all the time, and vice versa. That is how CNN and Fox get local video, and how many local stations get national and international video.

That too, has something to do with the routine, every day collusion between the GOP corporate cheerleader channels like Fox and CNN and local stations. So is it really all that surprising when they universally make the same decision to NOT cover a controversy they easily could have kept going all the way through tomorrow, boosting their ratings at a time when they are being nearly universally ignored by the public, most of whom could care less about this election?

John Q. RepublicanLeaningindependent would be PISSED OFF if the networks spun Jesse this week the same way they spun Jesse last week, because it could send votes away from their and Shrub's boy Norm Coleman. And of course, the GOP media, like the GOP corporados, like the GOP politicians, like the presselect and the veep of undisclosed locations, wants Norm to win. Hence, no coverage of that little controversy. At least, not until the polls close tomorrow. Then maybe we will see excerpts of the governor's press conference today begin to surface on the media whore channels because it will just boost their ratings, and not boost their ratings and lose the senate seat to the Democrats.