The roundtable on Stephy keeps talking about how "The American People" expect to see progress and we need to see that benchmarks have been set and accomplished...
THAT is one of the biggest bits of propaganda that these MSM types use---they say that "the American People" expect to know everything and expect this or that to happen...
I don't believe it...I think that most people, like myself are in AWE of the things that have been accomplished in such a short time...the elections..the number of people voting..the fact that the Sunnis MAY be trying to get in the "legitimate" way...
I also do NOT sit around second guessing the Military about the schedule that they have for turning over power in different sections of Iraq....
The MSM always try to couch THEIR distrust and dislike by using "we, the American people" to so their dirty work...and I for one, do not like it.
"The roundtable on Stephy keeps talking about how "The American People" expect to see progress and we need to see that benchmarks have been set and accomplished..."
Count me in as one of the American people who expect to see progress in Iraq reported.....unfortunately, my idea of progress has to do with our victory in the war.....the media's does not.
To the media, uncovering some sleazy pics from Abu Garaib and playing them up endlessly for weeks as the lead story is progress.
To me, successfull Iraqi battles, elections etc are "progress" but I'm luck if those stories make it to a second day!
"The roundtable on Stephy keeps talking about how "The American People" expect to see progress and we need to see that benchmarks have been set and accomplished...
The MSM always try to couch THEIR distrust and dislike by using "we, the American people" to so their dirty work...and I for one, do not like it."
The Clintonistas used a similar spin during Bubba's troubles. I can still hear Ann Lewis screech, he needs to get back to work for the American People. My response was I don't like the work he's doing for this American.
The American People would SEE PROGRESS if the jerks in the MSM would actually report ALL of the facts. However, for the most part, they only choose to report the car bombings, and not the building that's taken place and all the other good things that are being done, including, that 15 of the 18 provinces are basically secure and doing well. They make it look like the whole country is in disarray. They barely showed the last election, which was truly historical in a number of ways (Arab nation ratifying their own constitution, people in Iraq doing something most in the world (including those of us living in the US today) have never had an opportunity to do - ratify their Constitution, larger turnout than we have in our own country, even for Presidential elections, etc.).
I agree. The President and the military have many more facts and experience and know what's going on over there (and how other issues influence it and vice versa) than I. I'll admit something Stephy and other media lame brains don't seem able to admit to - I am not a military expert. It's up to the Pres and military to make those decisions, and w this Pres and SOD, I'm perfectly comfortable with them doing so.
Bush looked at him with utter contempt and said "You speak for the American people? That is a pretty arrogant position for you to claim don't you think?"
I don't like it, either, when the LSM claims to speak for the "American people." Great post! Thanks.