That's the headline that the News & Observer in Raleigh puts on an AP story today that quotes Karl Rove's charge that journalists and columnists "want to draw attention away from the corrosive role their coverage has played [in] focusing attention on process and not substance."
This self-styled "political professional" (taught at Lee Atwater's knee, right along with George W. Bush) has long been an expert in the Stalinist art of the big lie. While it is true that the media at large generally avoid substance in favor of the more marketable "process" of political punch and counterpunch, they haven't paid nearly enough attention to the process by which the Busheviks stole the 2000 election in Florida and the 2004 election in Ohio. Rove's big lie is to imply not only that the media have paid enough attention to that process, but that they've even "focused attention" on it.
Rove no doubt hopes that his jab in the media's face will keep it that way. It's worked before. He's a professional.
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