I am really focused on the WH political team failing, as they always to, to anticipate the spin coming from this. The sheeple are being saturated with this - I drive home listening to a Jazz music FM station, and the news clip at the top of the hour talks about the Pope slamming Bush. And the newsradio stations are even worse.
This is why Bush is not doing well in the polls - they have to break the cycle of day after day attacks on him from every angle, the sheeple are being saturated with this. He should have done a quick photo op with the pope, tossed that medal his way, and been done with it. If they couldn't make an arrangement with the Vatican to not release this propaganda as part of this meeting - then just meet with Berlusconi.
Well we are probably getting a very biased report out of the media.
But it certainly is upsetting!
The problem is that the pope did not attck Bush or America. It is contrived by those in the press who have an agenda.
It is easy to anticipate the spin: It will always be negative, and outrageously so.
I do not know what one can do about it. What would you do? Should they hold up in the White house and do nothing? His first Iraq speech, the five point speech was deep sixed within 48 hours. The rousing AF Academy speech met a similar fate. What can one do here?
If the American people cannot see what is happening here then what are we to do about it? True the GOP could be faulted as a whole for not pressing the media's bias upon the people, but given the level of invective, disinformation and the intensity of the attack, would even that get through.
In the end the American people are faced with an adult choice. The blame for the wrong decision must squarely rest on those that make it.
I have agreed pretty much with many of your assessments over the last few months, but I ask you: What can really be done about it? Are you sure that the response you crave will bring results come Nov. or with they just make you feel better?
I am quickly getting to the point of view that either the American people must see through this now or we must go through even greater tragedy and suffering to finally rid ourselves of the moral failure and vice this is our national addiction to a corrupt and venial media - which is really only an aspect of a larger corruption of a broader political establishment - and all of the degrading intellectual, moral and spiritual conditions that come with it. This "narcosis of the media" and its suppression of the sound discourse in the body political has been building for a very long time, building since FDR, in fact, and if the American people do not have the maturity to understand it then I am afraid there is little to be done about it. Truth will out.
In the end, we where wrong to concede the realm of media and "culture" to the Left, and this failure goes back to the 1930's. The "greatest Generation" indeed.
The fact that Liberal elites cannot side with the nation in a time of war shows not only corruption but deeply flawed thought. Things must run their course it would seem.
We must remember that this has been the case for most of our challenges in the post war period. Look at Korea and Vietnam. The Cold War victory was a close one. If Reagan had not come to power the USSR would most likely be with us.
We are at a point of cultural crisis as a nation. The old culture will fail. The question is whether or not we have the maturity to recognizes this and fashion as fresh one to face the new adversity or shall our failure to adjust bring us to our end as a power, as a nation?
I do not have the answer to that one. Do you?
Doom, doom, doom.
God, you are such a DOWNER!