More blunt talk

Surprise! In his weekly column yesterday, Al Neuwarth, founder of USA Today, calls Bush a liar and castigates the media for standing by:

The crucial difference between Vietnam and Iraq is that there is no Cronkite to call Bush's bluff. Without a strong, trusted, non-political voice, too many of us remain Bush-blinded. Bush tried keeping the wool over our eyes again Tuesday on national TV by repeatedly tying Iraq to 9/11. That charge is as phony as his discredited prewar claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

We're out of the blogosphere now; USA Today is the best-selling daily in the country, claiming daily readership by more than 4.2 million affluent heads of households. Oh yes, and readership peaks on Fridays.