July 15, 2005
Captain Queeg, remember him?
The Anchoress writes:
I think I wrote about a week ago my suspicions that the Karl Rove whirlwind was yet another Bushian “rope-a-dope.” The WH was too silent, and they were doing what they ALWAYS do - allowing the press and the Democrats to get wild, shrill, over-confident and over-the-top, and then allowing the cards to show...
Makes a lot of sense. You gotta figure the press/Dems will be attacking the White House over something. So why not lead them on to attack where you know you're in a strong position. Maybe, maybe, even a position where the real villain will turn out to be a reporter! How sweet.
Now you might say that it's a bit unfair for Br'er Rabbit to play so upon the dishonesty of Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. But if the press was to do it's job, and try to report the truth (Ha ha ha, ain't I a card!) instead of constituting an anti-Bush hatchet squad, they wouldn't get into these little situations...
There's a comment I liked on her post too:
3. The Dems have become Captain Queeg, rolling the silver balls in their hands, rambling about Bushitler, Dick, Darth Vader, Cheney and Karl, the Emperor, Rove stealing the strawberries, I mean elections. They are madly searching for the “truth” and will look under every rock and in every corner until they find it.Posted by John Weidner at July 15, 2005 08:25 AM
For God's sake, there are still people looking for that plastic turkey. The truth about the newest "Big Lie" never gets to the people who need it.
Bush Lies, no WMD, Wilson's truth to power, yada,yada. This administration needs to knock these mistakes down permanently, loudly, forcefully, and repeatedly until not even Michael Moore will touch them. This excludes the Democratic Underground types, they still think Stalin was a great guy, but the man in the street, who is tired of the war and the casualties, must know what assertions are true and which are false. The slow loss of faith has cost us too much in the past, in too many places.
Easy to say, but how do they do it? Give a speech? A press conference? Write a book?
It would still be filtered through the mainstream media, who would reduce it to a 5-second sound bite, sandwiched inside a "story" about how the administratnion is "reacting defensivly" to these allegations...and then, for "balance," they'd give some Democrat an opportunity to repeat the lies at length.
But the good news is that, with the rise of alternative media, the man on the street is hearing a lot more of the truth than he used to.
Posted by: John Weidner at July 15, 2005 06:31 PMThe Democrats remind me of Wile E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner, and the anvil is about to drop.
Posted by: Mike Lion at July 16, 2005 07:08 AM
