Irony of Ironies

No red-hot political news, here. It's just too ironic to pass up. The First Lady: how can she be so right and, yet, so wrong?!

WASHINGTON -  First lady Laura Bush thinks the news media is increasingly filled with opinions instead of facts, and suggested Tuesday that journalists are contributing to the polarization of the country."

So far so good. She seems to have missed the role her husband plays in the polarization of the nation, but we need all the help we can get in the media watch department, so we'll let that one slide.  But then she says,

"I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America," she said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor".

Um, did I hear that correctly? You're talking about the paucity of facts in news reporting in an interview on the faux news station par excellence?

"I do think there's a big move away from actual reporting, trying to report facts," the first lady said. "It's in newspapers and everything you read -- that a lot more is opinion."

Ah, I see.  So it's the newspapers and, more generally, those news sources that require a literate audience. But we should never ever criticize the networks, would we?  

This scenario is so over the top with irony that I'm actually somewhat perplexed as to what to make of this. Take the poll!