This review reads like a parody of the clueless media elite. According to Mr. Lehmann, it is the collective idiocy of the American people and not the media, who are to blame for the Bush administration. While he disingenuously includes himself with the great unwashed, it is fair to say he more likely identifies with the media punditocracy he absolves. There is no doubt that the American people are to blame for much of what has happened, but there's plenty of blame to go around. Mr. Lehmann is usually a brutally frank and devastatingly analytical writer; what a shame to see him playing both sides of the fence to avoid biting the hand that feeds him.