And the Military Recruiting Goals are...

...being met.

And will the earlier hysteria about recruitment and the Clear and Troubling message this sends about Mr. Bush's War be now redacted to reflect this new data? Of course not. You could grow old waiting for the WaPo to mention these numbers unless it finds a datum that it can make sound Controversial (perhaps there will be too many Hispanics or not enough left-handed people or something).

You know this. I know this. Intellectually honest people on the Left will admit this as well. So whence the determination that the WaPo or the NYT or the LAT or CNN or ABC, NBC, CBS, etc., are filled with objective professional journalists while the right-wing blogs and FoxNews are biased little cells of distortion?

I've said it before and will continue to say it: the pretense of objectivity must be dropped.