Dubya got his free pass back in 2002, when he insinuated that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks and in cahoots with Osama bin Laden. The MSM only started to criticize Dubya later on, when it was obvious that the occupation of Iraq had landed us in the shit.

The MSM also gave the Tea party a free pass by failing to investigate the Tea Party's roots in the offices of former GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey and various PACs associated with the GOP.