Gay old time.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

To most of us, Bush's ignorance is scandalous. Even his chief of staff, Andrew Card, admits "he does not dwell on the newspapers, but he reads the sports page every day." But just to show that a sympathetic journalist can find a way to put a favorable gloss on an unfortunate trait, here's how Bill Sammon of the conservative Washington Times puts it in his new book Misunderestimated: "The President is not steeped in the minutiae of individual news...