Remember, we had Bush AWOL documentation in 2000.

In the run-up to election 2000, a group of citizen journalists at salon.com's message board had the evidence of Bush's absence from his duty during wartime in the Texas Air National Guard. The evidence had been obtained through FOIA by an Iowa farmer, and brought to the research group. These were National Guard records.

For months, the members of this research group tried to break this story to the MSM and to Democratic officials. There were hundreds of contacts made via email, phone calls, letters, and even personal visits.

The facts were unassailable. They were ignored. The Boston Globe finally ran a story about Bush's National Guard record. But it was not picked up.

Until the Friday prior to the election, when Senator Bob Kerrey called a press conference to ask George W. Bush to explain his absence from duty.

Simultaneously, the story of Bush's DUI was then broken by a FOX affiliate. The DUI story blew the AWOL story out of the news on the Friday before the election.

Someone was a genius at media management.