So Newsqueak is shocked that support for Operation Iraqi Freedom is waning...couldn't be the negative news hammered home day after day by the print media and their electronic brethren could it? Last week's TIME cover story is a typical hit piece. The use of the Bush aircraft landing photo is hardly subtle, it sets up the bias from the get-go. Do they really think we are so stupid as not to see through this visual setup?
Where are these pictures? or these stories in the mainstream media?
Have a look at the way poll questions are carefully designed to return a preconceived result. The media should ask hard questions and hold the Administration's feet to the fire, as they failed to do in Kosovo, but they should also deliver the good news. There is a huge difference between watch dog and ideological lap dog.
Apart from punishing Bush for what they see as an illegitimate assumption of the White House and electing a Democrat in 2004, I ask myself what do the media gain from this deliberate distortion of the situation in Iraq? Are they not Americans? Do they not have families? Do they not bleed if attacked by terrorists?
Gotcha journalism has become a zero sum game, eventually even the most politically polarized, obtuse journos will realized that fact when their jobs wither away as Americans ignore and/or turn away from their message.
As Dean Esmay so aptly put it: "I can think of nothing more vile, nothing more flat-out evil, than cutting and running on these people right now."
Sadly, I can; the media coverage and what it could mean to Americans like me living in or near Al-Qaeda target cities, ports, refineries or American architectural icons such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
Wake up people, there is a fifth column operating against our common interests and national security that is every bit as radical in their zeal to overthrow Bush as Al-Qeada. Fortunately they rely on our financial support, in the end they will whore for their jobs and sell out their Leftie ideology, but how many more Americans may die as a result of their skewing and dumbing down of information?