I find the media hypocrisy amusing; if the Democrats had managed to get a few more votes -- even one Republican one -- I think that this vote would have been trumpeted from the skies.
I believe that the ridiculous Fitzgerald soap opera garnered much coverage for very little substance, and I believe that the MSM reaction to a just few more 'yes' votes in this case would have been on the level of the resignation of Nixon. Instead, since it didn't go their way, the MSM are downplaying the historic vote last evening. I checked news.google.com, and on the page generated for the news coverage this event, none of the headlines use the word "overwhelmingly", though the word does appear in a handful of the first lines of the stories. Instead, the headlines are predictably slanted to the left, downplaying the defeat of the Democrats:
Pullout debate takes nasty turn
White House plays chicken with a war hero
Call for Troops' Removal Reverberates at Home
House Erupts in War Debate
Democratic hawk blasts Bush over Iraq, urges pullout
Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout (from the New York Times, which in this story doesn't even mention the overwhelming nature of the vote total until paragraph 6, and then goes trying to write excuses for it.)
I did find one headline for an opinion piece that was notably not defeatist: Cut and run in Iraq isn’t a real policy, but most of the rest ranged from left to way out into loony left territory.
Why we cannot even have semblance of objective journalism from the MSM is beyond me; their sales are dropping rapidly, hurting their ad revenues, and the editors are deluding themselves if they think it is just demographics. I think it is the content with its overwhelming left-wing bias that is driving many people away.
Yes but it is irrelevant. My point is that we weren't TRYING to influence the media last night, but to drive a wedge where it hurts: between the "moderate" Dems who can win a general election by sounding "reasonable" and the Moonbat Dems who fund them and give them their volunteers. And we did that. Forget the MSM---this is about decapitating the "respectable" Dems from their idiotic base.