In retrospect, this is pretty funny stuff

Our friends on the political right are wont to declare that the mainstream media have hated President Bush and his war from the get-go.

The truth of the matter, of course, is something else. Take, for example, all the gushing we heard when Bush landed a plane on an aircraft carrier to declare "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq.

Back then, 69 percent of Americans approved of Bush's handling of the war. It's a different story today, as these numbers make clear.