Who's side are you on?

RightConservative.com ^ | 06-14-05 | Edward L. Daley

[RightConservative]

I constantly hear liberals decry the policies of George W. Bush, using catch-phrases like "out of the mainstream" and "dangerously irresponsible" to describe them. Apparently, if you repeat something often enough, using the same carefully crafted terminology, and applying to it the same condescending tone each time, it magically becomes the truth... at least in the minds of leftists.

And, of course, the primary policy target of left-wingers in Congress remains the war in Iraq, even though nearly all of them supported it initially. As recent polls show support for the war waning, liberals all over the country are redoubling their efforts to convince average Americans that the Iraq conflict is "Bush's Vietnam." What you won't hear any of them admit to, however, is that this decline in approval is primarily due to their own anti-war propaganda efforts.

Just take a look at the type of war coverage we are inundated with these days. For example, every morning I check out the Associated Press wire on the internet. This is one of the main sources of information used by both the print and broadcast media in the United States. Over the past several weeks I've made a point of noting what the top stories posted on the AP have been on a daily basis, and while it may come as a shock to some folks, I was not surprised to find that over the course of about a month's time, only a half dozen of the lead stories presented there were about something other than American soldiers or Iraqi civilians being killed by "insurgents".