Dissembler-in-Chief

I am watching GWB on the Cisco IPTV Viewer over which the undisclosed financial institution where I work streams MSNBC. I am agog. Why do reporters treat this pathological shitsmearer with deference? His false jocularity which is really open hostility; his complete evasion of questions with catch phrases like "I am going to speak directly to the American people on this one"; his endless hammering on his totemistic keywords "freedom" and "democracy."

I didn't notice him correcting reporters for using the term "private account", though see TPM for some creepy, creepy Orwellian language-shifting.

I'd love to see a White House press conference empty of any reporters. That way he could "speak directly to the American people," without the corrupting influence of insufficiently respectful (yet still utterly cowed) journalists.