August 30, 2005
Media scum...
I borrowed this chart from Jim Miller on Politics.
Point is, the Media Wing of the Democrat Party not only fails to report good news from the War on Terror, they actively work to create the bad news. When they gleefully report the new enlistments are running below target ("Our military is imploding, Bush's fault") they don't mention that they are bending every effort to create that problem. One way: In olden times, America's heros were held up to young people as models...as heroes!
We have as many heroes now as then, but the lefty worms won't tell people their stories.
| Lynndie England | 5,159 |
| Koran abuse | 4,677 |
| Paul Smith | 90 |
Who's Paul Smith? Can you tell me? It's a name we all should know......
Miller took the data from the September issue of the American Enterprise magazine, and they got it from a Lexis/Nexis search.
I consider myself pretty well-informed when it comes to current events, particularly regarding the war. I had to look him up. After doing so I'm ashamed to say I didn't know who he was.
Posted by: Mike Plaiss at August 30, 2005 12:42 PMI had forgotten his name myself, though I blogged about him here
Posted by: John Weidner at August 30, 2005 02:10 PMWhat about Pat Tillman? He got SOME coverage, although still nowhere near as much as little Lynndie. But at least I could remember his name, almost. Okay, I had to ask my cow-orker for help with that, actually. So the problem you describe is real.
Posted by: Huck Foley at August 31, 2005 09:56 AMSo if you create such extreme incompetence and deceit that everything you claimed and promised turns to shit, is it your fault for being a total fuckup? Or is it the press' fault for pointing out that you're a fuckup?
Heck, just look at the GOP reaction this week re: Katrina. First, blame the victim. Chertoff and Brown both claiming those dying in NO are to blame for not leaving when told (being GOP, you see, they haven't a clue what its like to be working poor, living paycheck to paycheck). Then the absolute ignorance that has to be willful (Chertoff claiming until yesterday he didn't know there was a problem at the Convention Center...uhh, doesn't anyone at DHS ever watch the news, even Fox, all of whom we documenting death and suffering at the CC??). Or the public image - Bush partying in CA on Wednesday, Rice buying thousand dollar shoes yesterday on 5th Ave, heck, Cheney is still on vacation...And Bush's pathetic "no one knew the levee's would break" claim?!?! My god!
Come on, admit you underestimated, made a mistake, and get on with actually saving NO!
But I guess the President appointed by God is incapable of admitting a mistake, even today...
