Bush is getting all kinds of credit from reporters for his farewell press conference yesterday. (CBS's Bob Schieffer, an old Bush family friend, called the president's performance "gracious.") The press seems very impressed that Bush addressed some of the controversial topics of his administration; some of the mistakes that created what pollster say is historic ill-will among American voters.

ABC News, for instance, claimed, “the president candidly addressed serious issues ranging from the economy, to Hurricane Katrina, to the Iraq war.” Yet here's what ABC New reported regarding Bush's comments about the federal government's Katrina relief effort, which may go down in history as one of the most incompetent of its kind:

“Could things have been done better? Absolutely,” Bush said. “But when I hear people say the federal response was slow, then what are they going to say to those chopper drivers or the 30,000 that got pulled off the roofs?”

That's Bush being “candid”? Doesn't sound like it to me.