I truly wonder if the dems and MSM know how they are preceived? Are there gains to be made by the troubles the Republicans are having? Sure there are, but the dems, as always overplay their hands. They offer nothing and continue to do nothing but whine and complain. They overplay their hands so much, that they can't even mask that they are invested in U.S. defeat in Iraq.
The same with the MSM. The MSM is far too busy patting itself on the back for their Katrina coverage to notice the real fallout. It is akin to that blowhard who overstates his/her abilities. Yet, when it comes time to put up the results, he/she fails to match his/her own. The blowhard thinks he/she can just move on and nobody will notice. Oh, but the audience does notice and the blowhard's credibility is shot. Where were the 10,000 dead, the toxic soup, the scenes of death and rape, etc. etc.?
So now, the MSM sits around on a goulish death watch. They don't get that merely reporting the news could be enough to gain sympathy for the anti-war side. Instead, the MSM gives off the impression of rooting for the deaths. That only drives sympathy in the opposite direction.
But what the hell, the MSM and the dems don't care, a lack of self-awareness is bliss.
This is the left's take on McCarthyism. That he boasted of a list of known communists and when push came to shove his claims were ignored. There WERE communists working for the government and in public sector professions like schools. There WERE communists agitating on behalf of the Soviet Union. THIS part of the lesson gets ignored in schools.
Now there is a new chapter to the lesson. Zogbyism (media manipulated political smears) has replaced McCarthyism. Whether it is "Bush's Draft", "10,000 war dead", "Iraqi Prison Rape" (using photos from porn sites or staged shots of a British soldier urinating on a "prisoner"), "Bush's Air National Guard service memo", The NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, CBS, Washington Post, et al manufacturing news items to smear Bush and conservatives (e.g. the "Bill Bennett" redacted soundbite).
THIS is the witchhunt (even more than Clinton's smear of the Right after the OKC bombing). We haven't done anything wrong, let alone illegal, but conservativism itself is being criminalized.