Friday, June 25, 2004
RANT
A friend forward an article about the impressive success of Operation Iron Saber, the military supression of Muqutada al Sadr's uprising. Meanwhile, scanning the news from Beijing, I see items documenting the Washington Democratic Party's all-but-official stamp of approval on Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11. All of which led me to respond with the following to the group that received the original message about Iron Saber, one that includes many old friends of mine who will vote for John Kerry this year and call themselves Democrats:
Of course this success doesn't get good press coverage, because it's inconsistent with the pre-determined truth that Bush lied, the Iraq invasion was wrong, was carried out badly and represents a failure of US policy. Outside Fox and the vast right-wing AM radio conspiracy, the US press establishment has determined that Bush is a bad president and that all of his foreign and military policies are wrong and end badly. Thus no or minimal reporting of any success.
While I'm on my soap box, it occurred to me while I was scanning the news this morning that the Left has found its answer to Rush Limbaugh. For years the Left decried the fat slob Limbuagh who used the media to keep the Right on message. They said he was a liar and distorter who whipped up partisan fervor in the "echo chamber" of AM talk radio. Enter lying fat slob Michael Moore, who keeps the Left on message through the echo chamber of Hollywood's single-minded leftist power structure. The official sanction of Moore's "Farenheit 911" by the Democratic party establishment in Washington this week is shameful. Take a look at Christopher Hitchens' review of the movie at Arts & Letters Daily from yesterday (I think) to see just how grossly distorted the movie is. The Democratic Party's embrace of Moore will ensure that I never vote for a Democratic candidate for any major office. That may mean I never vote again, but so be it.
Oh, and while I'm at it, try entering "Iraq" and "al Quaida" into a search engine and limit your reading to major news sources from before the year 2000. Makes for very interesting reading. Such outlets as CNN, The NYT and the Guardian were full of reports of a real and on-going connection. Now, of course, this is all chalked up to having been misled by Chalabi. What utter partisan crap. It makes me ill.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 12:06 PM
