[white trash redneck]

Interesting that Saletan, an unrepentant leftie, doesn't mention the most likely reason - that at some level, America's left wing media stands against America's interests.

[SamKeck]

BTTT for an important article.

[america-rules]

Lets just tell the truth. The left wing media wants the USA to be a socialist country and all this support for the war goes against their GOAL ! They have to knock down the support in order to return to knocking down the President who is the road block to their Socialist Gov't. It's not just GWB but any Pubbie President that's in their way.

What is pissing me off are the so called conservatives lashing out only three weeks into the bombing...heck they gave Clintoon full support for the bogus bombing in serbia and when he said upfront "no ground troops" they trotted on TV and backed him 100% ! This has been very, very disgusting !

[lonestar]

America's left wing media stands against America's interests

Has anybody told them that they're as vulnerable as the rest of us?

Q. If you witnessed a confrontation between a terrorist and a journalist, who would you root for?

A. How would you know the difference?

[okie01]

"Interesting that Saletan, an unrepentant leftie, doesn't mention the most likely reason - that at some level, America's left wing media stands against America's interests."

He comes awfully close, though...

Because their political bias in favor of their country is being overwhelmed by professional biases that skew their coverage the other way...

Are we hinting that their "professional bias" might, indeed, be "anti-American"? And that this "acquired" bias (against their own country) might overwhelm their "natural" bias (toward their own country)?

Saletan is accusing his compadres of being either unprofessional or unpatriotic. Either accusation is pretty damning.

And, I might add, well deserved.

[daviddennis]

Did we not spend quite a bit of time bombing Kuwaiti targets before the ground war begun in Kuwait?

I don't see how we can call this war a failure when it's barely started. Certainly it is only prudent to destroy as much of the enemy's resources as feasible before going in with ground troops, no?

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[Scott from the Left Coast]

That may be true...and he may be a leftie, but he still makes some very astute observations about his comrades in the media. He hits the mark often. Especially when he starts talking, at the end, about the boredom factor. The media wants something they can go at 24/7 without interruption and without having to work at it. They want a self-making story. Once the peak of intensity fades off into a certain plateau that seems "normal", like a junkie they start going around trying to get the next "high".

And they start making it up if they can't get it from anywhere else.