No laughing matter

Frank Rich dissects what exactly made the mass media's sycophantic coverage of Laura Bush's comedy routine at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner last week:

Watching the Washington press not only swoon en masse for Mrs. Bush's show but also sponsor and promote it inevitably recalls its unwitting collaboration in other, far more consequential Bush pageants.

Like the Jeff Gannon flapdoodle. Like Bush's eerie Tom Cruise mimickry on that aircraft carrier. Like telling Ron Suskind that "We create our own reality" in the White House.