When you say "cheerleaders right from the onset" are you referring to the NYT declaring "Quagmire!" about a week before the fall of Baghdad?
Or, more recently, how about all those articles about what a bloodbath and failure the Iraqi elections would be?
And if the media was so helpful to Bush in pushing his agenda, why did he need to hire Jeff Gannon Guckart?
Try making up your mind about Bush's relationship to the media.