On Meet the Press and on MSNBC, newly minted anchor Brian Williams is

talking down the election — you can’t trust the participation numbers,

a lot of what we’ve seen in Arab media isn’t as positive as President

Bush’s speech. Then he admits he doesn’t know what he is talking about

because he was “confined” to his area because of the threat of

pedestrian suicide bombers. In other words, Iraqis went to the polls

but he stayed behind barbed wire, and seems to be peeved because he

didn’t witness enough. A genuinely, horrifyingly disgraceful

performance.