PURE BIAS - AT 11:29 A.M. ET:  The following appeared in an AP story this morning on Obama's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize:

Bush was reviled by the world for his cowboy diplomacy, Iraq war and snubbing of European priorities like global warming.

COMMENT:  Reviled by the world?  The whole world?  Everyone?  I wonder how the reporter knows.  Must've been a really big polling sample.

Cowboy diplomacy? Precisely when and where?  In fact, our diplomacy was quite normal, resulted in a remarkable AIDS program in Africa, the dramatic enhancement of our relations with India, the world's largest democracy, and a superb relationship with Eastern Europe, now eroded by Obama.  Toward the close of Bush's second term, even Western Europe was moving in our direction.

But let's not let facts disturb us.

October 9, 2009