Ahh Our Most Excellent and Exalted Leader

If you are really interested in wondering where the press has gone wrong, and looking for an example of people who should know better just throwing up on themselves, check out Fox' Chris Matthews commentary on the eve of the President's Mission Accomplished landing:


MATTHEWS: What's the importance of the president's amazing display of leadership tonight?
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MATTHEWS: What do you make of the actual visual that people will see on TV and probably, as you know, as well as I, will remember a lot longer than words spoken tonight? And that's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was younger, obviously. What does that image mean to the American people, a guy who can actually get into a supersonic plane and actually fly in an unpressurized cabin like an actual jet pilot?


This is a guy who has his own TV show. Who worked on the Hill. To whom people presumambly listen. And here he is just about ready soil himself over the most obvious piece of faux masculine proganda since Il Duce crossed his arms. (Thanks to Atrios for digging this up.)