While our elite media often like to pretend they're just passive conduits of information, their coverage incorporates the standard assumptions and conventional wisdom of George Bush's Washington and they spin stories accordingly. So when Barack Obama says crazy things like maybe it's important to engage in diplomacy even with leaders we don't like they act like his head just spun around, Exorcist style. The reality is that most of us are above the age of 5 and understand the necessity and
desirability of such things.
