Nurse, may I have my Thorazine now?

Un-fooking-believable. No matter how bad the news, "Fox and Fiends" and our other media watchpoodles will strain their milk trying to spin it as a boon for Bush. The Dow is up? Good news for the President: it shows his tax cuts are working. The Dow is down? Good news for the President: it would have dropped even more had it not been for his tax cuts. Iraq casualties are down? Good news for Bush: we're winning. Iraq casualties are up? Good news for Bush: it shows the desperation of the "dead-enders." Our pundit class has a Moebius Strip mentality when it comes to Dubya--any news must be twisted such that it has only a single--positive--side.

Media Matters - Time reporter Mike Allen: Conviction of "friends of the president" is going to be "very helpful" to Bush

From the May 25 edition of Fox News Live:

BILL HEMMER (host): Mike Allen's with me now from Time magazine. Mike Gallagher is a Fox News contributor. Mike and Mike, welcome, here.

ALLEN AND GALLAGHER: Hi, Bill.

HEMMER: First to Mike Allen, is there a political impact; is there a political fallout in any way on, as a result of this trial? Mike, do you believe?

ALLEN: Well, sure there is. This is going to be very helpful to the president because it shows that even friends of the president, even big business, longtime supporters of the president are prosecuted, and there is justice even for big fish. Bill, you can remember a couple years ago, there was a frenzy of coverage about how close the president was to Ken Lay when the president was governor, and going into running for president. It was often stated that Ken Lay was the president's largest lifetime contributor, which was true. The president -- there were a lot of connections to this company both in the governor's office and the administration, so people wondered what would happen with this.

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