Footnote to the preceding

Speaking of media and controversy:

Marco Trbovich, a United Steelworkers of America employee who advised Kerry on labor policy during the latter's presidential campaign, told a group of journalism students at NYU on Monday that in the face of the month-long smear campaign by Swift Boat Veterans for Lies,

"[t]he Kerry campaign didn't act fast enough because it wasn't cynical enough about the media [to think] that controversy was more important than context."

You don't have to be cynical to figure that out, you just have to be a viewer/reader. Jeez, are Democratic presidential campaigns (think Carter 1980, think Dukakis 1988) always the last ones to catch on to these things?