Here is a text book example of how the Main Stream Media really sucks at informing the American people. Read this article on Presidental Blunders.

Now tell me, what steps could Buchannan have taken to avert the Civil War? How could Madison have kept us out of the War of 1812? In fact, we won the War of 1812 and proved our ability to be an independent state. Was getting into that war a bad thing?

What were the consequences of the Embargo Act of 1803? What makes it so great a blunder to out rank Andrew “Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!” Jackson’s genocide of the Cheerokee Indians in the Trail of Tears?

That CNN article doesn’t even bother to link to the conference, the report or anything with more information.