they can't see the forest for the trees

the evidence is RIGHT there, in front of them. we ALL saw it yet 'they' still deny it.

Malkin not convinced that Bush's video conference with troops was "staged"
In her October 19 syndicated column, Michelle Malkin took to task "[t]he Associated Press, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell and others in the Bush-bashing press corps" for "accus[ing] the White House and 10 soldiers from the Army's 42nd Infantry Division of 'staging' " an October 13 video conference in which President Bush spoke with soldiers stationed in Iraq. Malkin also criticized NBC News for "indulging in its Bush-deranged feeding frenzy over the 'staged' talk with the troops." But the very same NBC Nightly News report specifically referenced by Malkin included extended video of preparations for the event making it abundantly clear that it was, in fact, "staged."
Malkin's comments echoed those of The Washington Times, which had similarly expressed skepticism that "some of the soldiers who appeared had supposedly been coached by White House aides."
On the October 13 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell reported on the video conference, the advance preparations for which were inadvertantly transmitted to reporters via a live satellite feed. In the words of Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, the feed "showed a full-blown rehearsal of the president's questions, in advance, along with the soldiers' answers and coaching from the administration," although the live video event was billed as a spontaneous exchange between the president and the troops. Mitchell's report included video footage of Allison Barber, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for internal communications, coaching the soldiers on delivering their answers and at one point referring to some of the questions as "scripted.".................