Today's dog & pony show was Rove's attempt to shut the media up

[Skidmore]

now that it's finally started to ask questions. Those questions were crafted and distributed to slap the media down. It was a big "boo" and we'll see if it has the desired effect.

[cantstandbush]

1. He doesn't need to do anything to shut the media up. They are deaf,

dumb and blind and incapable of being an independent press when it comes to Bush.

[leftchick]

2. hopefully it will challenge a few to tell the truth

probably a very few.

[Wisconsin Larry]

3. For those who missed it (like I did thank god) here's the link to the

transcript. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-22-2006/0004325376&EDATE=
where you can read questions like the following which will no doubt get quite the coverage by all the right wing nuts.

Excerpt from the transcript of today's Wheeling, WV talk,

Q His job while serving was as a broadcast journalist. And he has
brought back several DVDs full of wonderful footage of reconstruction, of
medical things going on. And I ask you this from the bottom of my heart, for
a solution to this, because it seems that our major media networks don't want
to portray the good. They just want to focus -- (applause) --

THE PRESIDENT: Okay, hold on a second.

Q They just want to focus on another car bomb, or they just want to
focus on some more bloodshed, or they just want to focus on how they don't
agree with you and what you're doing, when they don't even probably know how
you're doing what you're doing anyway. But what can we do to get that footage
on CNN, on FOX, to get it on headline news, to get it on the local news?
Because you can send it to the news people -- and I'm sorry, I'm rambling --
like I have --