Press Pass

On C-Span right now Lt. General William Odom of the Hudson Institute just debunked a caller's assertion that retired military critics are on the payroll of the press. He isn't and wasn't save for a brief instance in 1991. This conspiracy of the the wingers is just that. "Good effective feedback," Gen. Odom said, of dissenting views on policy and the acceptance of bad news on the ground in a war.

"Without dissenting views from the president we're in bad shape," he said. Odom was against the Iraq intervention. The facts are against Bush et al.