And the Russians merely need to write in the style to which US academics and media members are accustomed: US culpable for almost all sins wherever committed, and other parties governmental or non-governmental needn’t be held to account.

Also, the writers have decades of examples of MSM moral equivalence to learn from, and are becoming expert at mirroring our concerns of civil ‘rights’ back at us as justifications for the thuggery of the day.

It’s of growing concern that the US (and world) media has taken upon itself the role of disloyal opposition. The eagerness to paint the Bush administration black in all things has metastastasized far beyond the gadfly position. This does nothing beneficial in the informing of our citizens of current events.