Disappointment

I must confess I was disappointed yesterday in the Downing Street Memo hearings.

Here was something I consider pivotal, and yet the major networks only covered it parenthetically. The hearing was crowded into the tiny House basement where speakers were practically sitting on each other's laps.

This matter, I believe, is far more important than Clinton's affair with Lewinsky and even more important than Watergate. This matter involved the loss of tens of thousands of lives in a cooked war where the president lied. And it's being treated like "nothing".

During Watergate, both GOP and Dem politicians rose up together to take a stand. There are few brave folks here, except those relative few who appeared at the hearings yesterday. It's being marginalized, and this is as much a crime as what Mr. Bush appears to have done.

What did the media cover at 2:30 PM yesterday instead? The runaway bride's book and movie deal, the missing white girl in Aruba, and other happy horseshit.