All you need to know...

...about the media and their contributions to political discourse.
David "Stretch" Gregory, just now on Olbermann:

...and George W. Bush, as he becomes less relevant, still has a role to play in terms of helping the Republicans [win the election in an economic slump].

This, in the midst of a discussion about the Michigan kitchen table economy, and how the price of milk really matters when your job goes away, regardless of what Wall Street does.

"A role to play". Not a role in, you know, running the country to the benefit of the people, but in helping his party win an election in a year when they have no moral right to.