When I saw Bushie on TV surrounded by soldiers and touting what a peaceful place Anbar province is, it made me think of the kind of report a fire department might write after a disastrous house fire.
“The main house was a total loss including the guest house and four-stall garage. The only structure unaffected by the blaze was the tool shed.”
I wish someone in the Democratic party or the media had the intelligence to step back and see the big picture. The Repugs have us all in a stir over whose report on the war will be released and which of the Iraqi government’s benchmarks have or haven’t been met.
PEOPLE: THE COUNTRY IS A TOTAL LOSS. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT? How can anyone say the Iraqi people are better off today than they were before our invasion? Don’t we have any media people smart enough to see that? Bush is directing our attention to the tool shed so we won’t notice the house is gone. AND WE LET HIM !!
you get the firetrucks out of the picture and the sirens out of the sound track before you zero in on that 6X6 tool shed.
Good diary entry Sarah Jo. The media allows the president to make any statement he wants without ever
checking his claims against the facts. If you ask them why, they will tell you that the president is credited for his statements and is therefor responsible for the veracity of his statements. But without the fact checkers on board for the reports, they are simply playing mouthpeice. The administration knows this is the policy and they exploit it shamelessly. If the administration lying to and through the media were considered a problem to the media, they certainley would have started checking the claims after what happened in the run up to the Iraq war. But as we can all see by the current debate over Iraq, they are persisting with the same irresponsible policy. Independent and investigative reporters are a thing of the past. The only time you will see Big Media doing an investigative report is after the culprit is caught, or the false claim has proven (by someone other than the press) to be false. Thank God for the internet. If not for bloggers and independents on the net, we would ALL believe we are succeeding in Iraq, that Alberto Gonzales was the victim of a left wing conspiracy, and that Karl Rove was a Christian.