Media, how’s that crow taste?
by JohnHuang2
The media that patiently waited minutes after the first U.S. bombs fell on Afghanistan before declaring Afghanistan a “Quagmire” and the Taliban government ‘unbeatable’ and the media that waited hours (they learned their lesson!) after the U.S. bombing in Iraq started before declaring Iraq a “Quagmire” and Saddam’s army unbeatable — that same media — is now magically reporting what’s actually happening in Iraq. Hmmmm, why is that?
It’s so quiet in Baghdad, the New York Times is almost covering it.
First, some fresh examples of the media admitting the surge is working (note: The quotes provided below are needlessly lengthy, knowing how it tortures libweenies to hear good news about Iraq):
“The war in Iraq shows clear signs of getting better. . . Major attacks have dropped 55 percent since June, U.S. military and civilian deaths show a sharp decline, and violence has fallen to levels not seen since January, 2006.” — Miami Herald, article titled “Reduction in violence creates a ray of hope”.
“The number of Iraqis killed last month fell” again, and “the military says violence has fallen to levels not seen in nearly two years . . .” — Associated Press, article titled “Death toll for Iraqis Falls Again”.
“Iraqis are returning to their homeland by the hundreds each day, by bus, car and plane, encouraged by weeks of decreased violence and increased security . . . The returnees find a capital that offers greater freedom of movement. Shops are open later in many neighborhoods, and curfews have been reduced.” — Washington Post, article titled “Returnees Find a Capital Transformed”.
“Attacks are down 75 percent in recent months in a perilous stretch of neighborhoods in northeastern Baghdad, prompting a U.S. military officer to proclaim Monday that security there is ‘dramatically improving.” — CNN, article titled “Commander: Citizens, extra troops help ‘crush’ al Qaeda in Iraq”.
“Violence in Iraq has dropped . . . since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilise the war-torn country . . .” — Reuters, article titled “Sharp drop in violence seen in Iraq”.
“About 150 students wearing colorful T-shirts competed in a bicycle race last week in Fallujah, an unimaginable event a year ago in what was once an al Qaeda hotbed and one of Iraq’s most dangerous cities.” — Reuters, article titled “Good times roll at Iraqi bike race”.
The press has now even noticed that al-Qaeda is losing more than just the war in Iraq, but influence in the region as a whole. The Christian Science Monitor put it this way: “Across the Arab world, where Al Qaeda sought to build influence and bases of operation on the back of widespread anger against the US over its war in Iraq and the broader war on terrorism, the movement is showing signs that it is stalled, if not in retreat . . . it’s brutal methods” having “turned off large numbers of Arabs.” Al-Qaeda still captures the minds of the really ignorant but you find them only in a limited number of places — Pakistan’s northwest province of Waziristan, Kashmir and in most American college campuses.
If you’re looking for why the press seems suddenly EAGER to report REAL news out of Iraq rather than spouting the usual ‘time to call it quits, pack it up, boys, war is lost, jig is up, surge ain’t working, run for the hills!’ denial mantra, you start with the astute observation that Bush isn’t running next year and the press has figured that out.
Democrats yearn to surrender in Iraq and they pinned their hopes on al-Qaeda winning and Congress forcing a troop pull-out but, with the surge working, the whole Iraq issue is a net loser for Hillary so, if you’re the press and think Cackles’s got a better shot than Obama at winning next year, best to cut your losses on Iraq now, get all the “bad news” about America winning out of the way, then sink the Iraq issue without a trace for ‘08.
The hitch in that scenario is that this or that poll may show Iraq taken down a peg or two as far as voter interest goes but not with the libbie Kool-Aid drinkers, fuming more than ever because the wrong side — America — is winning. Not supposed to happen — SanFranNan stops the Surge, forces a pull-out, all hell breaks loose in Iraq, Bush gets the blame, Allah willing. The opposite happened. You’re seeing the poor little darlings’ frustration in Iowa, with polls showing Obama now leading Cackles, who’s poring over Obama’s collection of Kindergarten essays frenziedly looking for dirt.
The press wants Iraq off the table to help Hillary and avoid another bloody Chicago ‘68 but the party’s wacko base thinks its big vote-getter for ‘08 is to run on Surrender and Appeasement. Love for Obama’s 10-point plan on Social Security isn’t why he’s going up in Iowa, it’s Iraq — the libweenies bummed out that the party blew its chance to lose the war by cutting off funding before BusHitler’s Surge started to work. The base’s bummed out with the whole Democrat establishment — the press, Congress, DNC — all personified by Hillary, which is why she’s tanking.
But the AP comes to the rescue! Writer Glen Johnson wrote that a “regal-looking” Hillary “strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis” and that “the image . . . conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for — namely, that” Hillary “can face disorder in a most orderly manner.” Point being that Hillary is presidential because the misogynist drunken nutter who invaded her office wasn’t Bill Clinton.
In response, the regal-looker’s polls tanked further.
As far as liberals in general, the year is ending with the New Republic thoroughly discredited, Sen. Maria Cantwell’s staffer busted in a pedophilic sex sting, Hillary’s bagman Norman Hsu indicted by the feds, New York Times circulation still sinking, history’s lowest rated Congress still sinking and forty more al-Qaeda honchos bagged in Iraq, making 2007 the deadliest year for al-Qaeda since their war began.
Even in Venezuela libbies are having a rough go of it. With a hammer-lock on the election process and the airwaves, the left still lost. Chavez and the boys framed the whole campaign around how much Chavez hates George Bush, who wasn’t on the ballot. Vote ‘No’ on Chavez’s power grab and you’re voting FOR George Bush. George Bush won.
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But good news! The National Intelligence Estimators now say relax, everything’s honky dory, peace in our time, nuclear mullahs don’t exist, Iran’s not seeking the bomb, the 3000 spinning centrifuges are harmless Maytag washers and dryers. The NIE judges ‘with high confidence’ that the ‘high confidence’ of the 2005 NIE was highly wrong — but you can trust us now. The 2007 NIE refers to its own 2005 NIE as erroneous and on this basis you can trust the 2007 NIE which says Iran’s not seeking the bomb. And if you don’t like the NIE’s current ‘high confidence’, wait two years. The NIE represents the highest collective judgment of the agencies that:
— Judge ‘with high confidence’ that they can’t find Osama;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ they couldn’t see 9/11 coming;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ the Soviet economy was booming;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ the Evil Empire would never collapse;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ that China wouldn’t send troops to Korea in 1950;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ they couldn’t predict India’s nuke tests;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ they couldn’t predict Pakistan’s nuke tests;
— Judged ‘with high confidence’ Iraqi WMDs were a ‘slam dunk’.
The 2007 NIE judges ‘with high confidence’ that Iran halted its nuke program in 2003 (while the neighbor next door was getting bombed) and assures us with ‘moderate confidence’ Iran didn’t resume its nuke program two years later.
The bigger irony here is what the reaction in Tehran is going to be. If you’re an Iranian nuclear mullah, it’s ‘bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Ahmad, we’re home free, dude! Can you believe it? The stupid infidels think we’re running a laundromat with all the centrifuges! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Now, let’s resume Allah’s sacred work’ — which is to build the bomb. The mullahs drop their guard, get too cocky, get too obvious, get too noticeable — then get very bombed.
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