Condoleezza Rice was on two morning news shows yesterday. George Stephanopoulos laid into her about the fact that the "evidence" for WMDs cited again and again in speeches and most notably the State of the Union Address, was in fact based on inaccurate documents and that this was acknowledged by the Administration, but that this information kept being trotted out as "proof."

I actually found it amusing that George was able to wipe that smug self-satisfied robot smile off her face as she backpedalled; I actually thought I saw her eyes watering....she spun it all nicely of course, referring to things like "we asked the intelligence community what we could say, what we could not say" and "just because this source turned out to be inaccurate, we were also using other sources to inform our decisions" blah blah blah, but since George never once asked "why did the President and the Administration LIE about this?" she did not have to directly answer him...

I am horrified at the lack of accountability and the pandering of our news media. There is a GREAT essay on this by a columnist named Wolcott in the current issue of Vanity Fair.