I noted in the past with regard to the Schiavo controversy, that the right’s habit of believing the nonsense in its own echo chamber severely hampers them when it comes to issues with a definite “yes” or “no” to them. The Schiavo supporters sounded practically deranged when they kept insisting that the young woman needed “just a glass of water” and swore up and down that she was perfectly fine because of what they had read on right-wing blogs and media sites.
I see it happening again now with the administration and Iraq. For so long now they’ve been able to say “9/11, 9/11″ and the lapdog mainstream media ceases the little bit of yelping they do in order to the toe the company line, that Bush felt that’s all he needed to do to stem the drop in his approval rating. That is, instead of presenting a cohesive strategy for why we’re in Iraq, what we’re doing there, and how we plan to leave he went to the strategy that works with the FOX, Newsmax, and Instapundit crowd: 9/11.
But I think that card is overplayed in the sense that when most Americans think 9/11, they think of the terrorist we have not caught yet – 4 years later, and our soldiers in Afghanistan who have been killed by the supposedly defeated Taliban, and we wonder what the hell we’re doing in Iraq when we’ve got a global war on terrorism to undertake.
I may not like him, but it is in the interests of my nation for George W. Bush to lead the fight against terrorists who want to kill us, but his response is empty rhetoric that will lead to insecurity for us all.
I must have read this wrong. OW is criticizing somebody for not stepping outside of their own echo chamber?
Surreal. Its hard to believe that so many Americans could get suckered by this Saddam / 911 connection. Sad state of American ignorance. Lets hope they come to their senses.
Speaking as someone who reads almost nothing but right wing news and media all day long, uh… yeah.
Wow, I’d forgotten that O-Dub’s day gig is dredging through the filth of the right-wing media– he works for Media Matters. Awful job, glad he’s got the stomach for it.
But it also explains his perspective: he sees exactly what’s going on over there in wingnut-land, and how they shove the body-politic around. I always find his perspective valuable, and now I understand how he can be so relentlessly partisan– the guy sits there in the wingnuttosphere all damn day long… seething, no doubt, not just at the wingnuts, but also at namby-pamby Democrats who are too wimpy to throw a punch at those bastards when it’s needed.
I think he’s right on then: it’s been so long since we had a president we could be proud of– or at least be able to trust– that it’s too easy to forget that it should be the natural state of things.
JD seems to miss the point and just want to attack.
Hey JD, is W a bubble boy? If you don’t have an argument, don’t bother posting, its just flame materials for others.
W’s bubble status is well known by those that have been observing him for a long time. He’s unaware that Tom Delay is widely viewed as a criminal, he’s unaware that the Downing Street Memo’s have been widely dispersed and disseminated, and on and on.
Or you can argue that he just doesn’t care. Either way isn’t a good place for a President of the American People to constantly be. He needs to wake up and start looking outside of his Colorful People that constantly surround him and feed him the information they want him to hear.