Unfortunate

Has anybody else watched the American coverage of today's visit? Its so shocking and so totally disconnected from the truth.

The anti-Bush forces in America (CNN) are portraying the trip as a failure to make Bush look like an idiot, and the pro-Bush forces (Fox News) are also portraying the trip to be a failure in order to appease Bush's base which generally dislikes all countries who refused to send troops into Iraq.

The visit has been, by all direct accounts, a reasonably good success. I saw a few clips of Bush at his press conference and at the formal dinner, and he seemed genuinely happy, the atmosphere seemed pleasant, and yet none of that is being reported in the American media. And its really so tragic because US public opinion is the only thing that can drive US lawmakers to go easy on their protectionism--if Tony Blair was the Prime Minister of Canada, I'm sure any trade disputes would've been settled before they became real issues.

UPDATE: I link to this guy too much, but Mike Brock has some thoughts on the same subject.