Cursor's Media Patrol - 02/02/06

'Retreating on the Offensive' A Washington Post editorial expresses concern that the president may be "decrying retreat while quietly packing his bags."

The BBC's Pentagon correspondent, reviewing declassified plans for "information warfare," reported that "the U.S. military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet."

The president reportedly "didn't mean it literally," when he vowed to cut Middle East oil imports by 75 percent: "This was purely an example," explained Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, formerly known as 'One of Texas' Top Five Worst Polluters.'

As the Enron jury hears testimony that the company "fudged its earnings figures with the knowledge of executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay," Robert Scheer fingers "the politicians who benefited from Lay's largesse, and who changed the law enabling Enron's chicanery."