“No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.“
-George W. Bush

Later:

Political guru Karl Rove claims that the job of journalists is “not necessarily to report the news. It’s to get a headline or get a story that will make people pay attention to their magazine, newspaper or television more.”

And Chief of Staff Andy Card scoffs: “[The media] don’t represent the public any more than other people do. In our democracy, the people who represent the public stood for election.”

Card argues that it’s not the responsibility of top White House policymakers to provide reporters with facts.

“It’s not our job to be sources. The taxpayers don’t pay us to leak!” Card tells Auletta. “Our job is not to make your job easy.”

The president’s advisors apparently missed that day in Junior High Civics class. Our loss…