One of the stranger sublots of Campaign 2008 is the extent to which the big news orgs are desperate to see signs that the GOP candidates are "distancing" themselves from Bush on Iraq, when they plainly aren't doing this at all.

Case in point: Bloomberg News, which ran a story today making this claim. Incredibly, in an effort to bolster the argument that Rudy was doing this, Bloomberg actually cherry-picked quotes from an interview in which Rudy himself said he wasn't doing this at all. That latter quote, needless to say, didn't appear in the piece.