Repost: Oh, NO, NO, NO!

Worth repeating. This administration has nothing but ripping contempt for the American press. The "lib'rul" media cower to them. They obey them. They jump on their laps and lick their faces. They spread their knees apart and allow themselves to be kicked repeatedly in the balls by them. And still, they do absolutely nothing but fall under their spell of fear - having the threat of not being called during their next press conference hanging over them if they hint at scandal.

I don't know where the "journalists" of today were taught. Unless it's oral sex, labeling a candidate as "angry," or another candidate's flashy sex-appeal sweater, these punks are totally lost. They're aimless. They're useless. Their lives are without any meaning because they let the crackheads in the White House and their majority lapdogs in the House and Senate go unpunished and unchecked. You want miserable failures? Look at the punching bags we call a "press":

W & aides broadcast media hate

He didn't free the slaves.
He didn't rid the world of Hitler.

He didn't even - like his father - preside over the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Yet George W. Bush tells New Yorker writer Ken Auletta: "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."

With stunners like that, no wonder he spends so little time with journalists.

The President's eyebrow-raising assertion comes during some Oval Office chitchat after Auletta - writing about the testy relations between the Bush White House and the news media - sits in on an interview with a British newspaper reporter.

In the latest New Yorker, Auletta reports that Bush and his minions have little use for the Fourth Estate.

Political guru Karl Rove claims that the job of journalists is "not necessarily to report the news. It's to get a headline or get a story that will make people pay attention to their magazine, newspaper or television more."

And Chief of Staff Andy Card scoffs: "[The media] don't represent the public any more than other people do. In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election."

Card argues that it's not the responsibility of top White House policymakers to provide reporters with facts.

"It's not our job to be sources. The taxpayers don't pay us to leak!" Card tells Auletta. "Our job is not to make your job easy."

Predictably, the reporters who cover Bush aren't happy. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank complains: "My biggest frustration is that this White House has chosen an approach ...to engage us as little as possible." And the New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller grouses: "Too often they treat us with contempt."

Free the White House press corps!