Don, love your conservatism, humor and writing gift from God. But just too many typos. Being in the advertising business for years and proofreading was a specialty of mine maybe I can help. Besides that, great essay, as usual.
And is it not a badge of honor receiving the statement from the freedom hating "press"; "deploring the White House's actions"?
And would "media critic" today be considered an oxymoron -- or is it just me?
CBS has been lying to us since at least 1968 when everyone’s most trusted “journalist,” Walter Cronkite said that we had lost the Tet Offensive. The fact that the NVA lost 50k soldiers and it was a disaster for them meant nothing. The NVA defense minister General Giáp used that propaganda to hang on and the rest is history.