The approach of Thanksgiving this week reminds me of what may be my favorite TV moment of the last decade.

A couple of months after the 9/11 disaster, the press had finished its non-stop coverage and had begun to revert to its usual self. Just before Thanksgiving, visiting a tailgate party at a football game, a certain well-known anchorman was trying to guage the "national mood." Thrusting the mic in a fan's face, he said, "The president's approval rating is high in his home state."

The fan looked at him and answered, "George Bush, so far, has done an unbelievable job."

The anchorman responded, "Many of us in the media don't get the same high marks. Can you tell me how the mood is...these days?"

"Nobody likes you," the fan answered.