Oh No She Di-Unt!

Hey, America! Did you see how much Hillary and Barack hate each other? Did you see them shouting at each other? Over and over on all your best cable TV news outlets, there was footage of these two Democratic presidential candidates hissing and snarling at each other, at least in the form of concisely edited sound-bites.
"I know you think it's crazy, but I kind of like to see Barack and Hillary fight," said one Bill Clinton, husband of one of the candidates.
Crazy? How about completely unnecessary? Who stands to gain anything from this bickering? John Edwards? Maybe, but someone like John McCain or even Mike Huckabee would probably be just as happy to have these two slug it out until June or July, and then spend the last few months of what has already been a ridiculously long campaign trying to rebuild the support of the center of the party as the bottom starts to fall out. There's no way the Democrats can lose this year, right?
Well, while all of this squabbling was going on in South Carolina, a study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study counted nine hundred thirty-five false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least five hundred thirty-two occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
"The cumulative effect of these false statements — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war," the study concluded.
And now you can get back to watching that scathing hot video of Hillary and Barack gnawing on one another's skulls. Eat up, America! Enjoy your spoon-fed media today!