Is It All Bush's Fault?

So does the WP : "President Bush should know that in Russia, someone is always listening. In this case, it was the rest of the world."

The New York Post puts the word in the lead .

The NYT calls it a "vulgarity": "For anyone who has ever wondered what President Bush sounds like when the microphones are off, the answer, at least at lunchtime on Monday, was blunt to the point of profane, laced with a wise-guy edge and, like anyone forced to make small talk, willing to fall back on safe topics like air travel."

USA Today goes only with an "unvarnished assessment": "President Bush got bit again Monday by the open-microphone bug."

CNN carried the word without bleeping; the other networks did not.

Says ABC's Jake Tapper: "If the president is going to curse on camera is it too much to ask that he not appoint Federal Communications Commissioners who will fine us for broadcasting it?"

Israel knows something about the new media: Blogger Roger Simon gets a podcast interview with Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon at Pajamas Media.

The following helps explain why Hillary Clinton hired a Salon columnist as her ambassador to the blogs. First there was this NYT lead:

"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, returning to her red-state ties, chastised Democrats Saturday for taking on issues that arouse conservatives and turn out Republican voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects."

Atrios , among other liberal bloggers, said the Times had misinterpreted the senator's remarks, and included part of the transcript:

"But with the Republican majority, that's not their priority. So we do other things, we do things that are controversial, we do things that try to inflame their base so that they can turn people out and vote for their candidates. I think we are wasting time, we are wasting lives, we need to get back to making America work again, in a bipartisan, nonpartisan way."

Blogger Susie Madrak was soon contacted by the newest member of Hillaryland:

"Peter Daou. who's Clinton's blog advisor, writes to tell me the Times story was uniquely misinterpreted by Anne Kornbluth, that this is Hillary's standard stump speech and that if you go back and read it again in context, she's speaking in the 'we' part as what the Republicans do, not the Democrats. Which does make a lot more sense."