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Frank Rich (via Kos makes a useful point about, well, camera technique. Remember the old TV show, "To Tell the Truth"? It's alive and well:

If anything, the first Bush-Kerry confrontation has given split-screen television a new vogue. Having defied the efforts of both campaigns to squelch its use on Sept. 30, emboldened TV news organizations can run with it at will. So we saw on the Sunday after that debate, when Condoleezza Rice appeared on ABC's "This Week."

There she was quizzed about the report in that morning's Times saying that in 2002 she had hyped aluminum tubes as evidence of Saddam's nuclear threat a year after her staff was told that government experts had serious doubts. Ms. Rice kept trying to talk over the soft-voiced George Stephanopoulos's questions, but [Stephanopoulos] zapped her with a picture: a September 2002 CNN interview in which she had not, shall we say, told the whole truth and nothing but. As the old video played, ABC used a split screen so we could watch Ms. Rice, "This Is Your Life" style, as she watched the replay of her incriminating appearance of two years earlier. Maybe, like Mr. Bush at the first debate, she knew her reaction was being caught on camera. But even if she did, the unchecked rage in her face, like that of her boss three days earlier, revealed that her image and her story, like the war itself, had spun completely out of her control.
(via NY Times)

It's really a story for The Department of "How Stupid Do They Think We Are?" Just as we say to ourselves (as with the old yellowcake "crude forgeries" fiasco) "Don't they know we can use Google?" so the slightly-less-terrified (oh, "emboldened") SCLM are saying to themselves, "Don't they know we have archives?"

More like this, please.