Posted on 12/05/2006 5:10:06 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The Iraq Study Group's recommendations are about to be released. Think about it: what should be the media's focus? I'd say attention should center on what those recommendations are, and whether if implemented they would advance - or impair - US interests in Iraq.
But that's not the MSM's focus at all. From the cover of Newsweek to the Today show, the concern is not whether the recommendations are good, but only whether President Bush will accept them.
In the course of Matt Lauer's interview of former Bush chief-of-staff Andy Card, 'Today' flashed the Newsweek cover shown here. When Card began describing the president's goals in Iraq and his decision-making progress, Lauer impatiently cut him short:
"But it's clear that there's got to be a change of course and there are a lot of people weighing in with advice on how that course should be changed. Does he listen?"
View video of Matt getting snippy here.
Change for change's sake? Is that any way to run a war?
Finkelstein recently returned from Iraq. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net
MSM-change-for-change's-sake ping.
What is apparent from this video clip is the person will refuses to listen is Matt Lauer himself. He is nothing but a petulant snit who thinks he is smarter than the average bear. He shows he is an ignorant elitist, and might I add, propagandist who does nothing more than spit out garbage.
Today, in most elections the MSM no longer tells what the candidates believe or what policies they intend to pursue. Instead, they focus almost exclusively on who is winning. Regardless of what party you're in this is not helpful to our political process and is yet another good reason to consider the MSM the stronghold of dilettantes indifferent to good government.
My wife had that show on this morning because she wanted to catch the local weather. Got my blood pressure up for the morning, I was screaming at just about everything they said, including the "will Bush listen", the "Bush's 'stay the course' mantra" when Bush almost NEVER uses the term, and the downplaying of how the Iraqi people have no interest in talking to Iran or Syria.
That and Ted Kennedy saying the there were no options left, a clever ploy if the democrats can get away with it -- they win an election based on some false promise that they will "fix Iraq", and before they even take power, they get the MSM to agree that it's just TOO LATE, that Bush broke it so bad NOBODY can fix it.
That's going to be the story over the next couple of months I bet, to get the democrats off the hook -- just like the MSM carried the water for Bill Clinton and his "the deficit was so much worse than what I was told that I simply can't give you tax cuts".
I was just about to say the same thing
The President has said 'stay the course'
But he's talking about .. Stay the course to Victory and Peace
Some in the media purposely distort his words and their meaning as though he's talking about only using ONE military plan
That's why I said "almost never" -- it's not really the term he uses, just as the other side never says "cut and run".
Whenever {the very few times} I see or hear matt lauer I'm not sure whether he is a whore or a pimp. Maybe it's possible that he is both, like a player/manager in baseball.
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