Has a candidate’s decision not to give a speech before an interest group ever attracted more attention than President Bush’s decision not to speak to the NAACP this year? I can understand a single story saying the president is staying away, especially if it also quotes Julian Bond calling conservatives “the Taliban wing” of the GOP and notes that Bush earned so much goodwill the last time he spoke to the NAACP that the group ran ads basically blaming him for the racist killing of a Texas man. By my count, however, the Washington Post today runs its third news story on the matter. (That’s three that discuss the matter prominently; several others make minor references.) Can we now please have three big news stories on John Kerry not speaking to the NRA or his failure to attend CPAC or his refusal ever to go on one of our National Review cruises?