It Makes a Difference to the Sheep

I listened to today's White House Press Briefing on C-SPAN on the way to work today. Could both the press and the press secretary have designed a system more calculated to spin and obfuscate than the current press briefing? I think not. "Regime Change" has apparently morphed from meaning " change in the regime's ruler" (e.g. Saddam must go) to "a change in the regime's behavior" (e.g. Saddam must shape up) and yet Fleischer has the gall to say that this is what the President and his administration have been saying all along. Has the Bush administration changed its policies on North Korea? Ari must have said "Our position is still we are consulting with our allies about it" or its equivalent five or six times. How did we get to this state of affairs in which the press asks questions far less calculated to elicit information than to confront the government and the White House responds by not responding? What a colossal waste of time and energy!