Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

The CarpetBagger Report has a take on the improving press for the President's recent speeches:

The media reports on the president's speech last night seems to have a common thread... [It's] giving enormous credit to the president for a minimal degree of appreciating reality. Talk about your soft bigotry of low expectations, Bush won praise for acknowledging that the "work has been especially difficult in Iraq," and for recognizing that there are a more than a few Americans who disapprove of his handling of the war. It's as if there was an expectation that the president would, once again, tell us how great everything in Iraq is, facts be damned. It's frustrating; we seem to have reached a point in which the president's willingness to concede a few obvious facts is so unusual, it's literally front-page news.

Indeed. The fact that he's actually trying now is deemed a success by the easily pleased media.