NPR's echo chamber

Don Gonyea has an absolutely hilarious story today. Bush is givng a speech today in Kansas as part of the Landon Lecture Series, topics predictable and spoken about by Gonyea in a single breath, like the disclosure statements at the end of a radio commercial.

But where Don luxuriated was in a startling fact: NIXON gave a speech there, too! During VIETNAM! GET IT? VIETNAM!

He even plays tape of Nixon's speech. That's it, though, no other story value than that. Iraq is like Vietnam, see? Don oughtta get a Pulitzer for this one.

Oh, there was another fact: Three sitting presidents have given speeches to the series. He didn't bother to tell us who the third one was, though, but, really, is that important? The thing is, Bush is like NIXON! And Iraq is like VIETNAM . . .

UPDATE: The third was Reagan, in 1982 (taking Don's word that there are three, a risk). SO I guess there's no point comparing Bush to a strong, successful, historic figure like Reagan, because the thing is, Bush is like NIXON . . .