| I don't see why that's so upsetting.
Your behavior therefore is that of a professional Democratic Party spinmeister like Paul Begala or Katie Couric; you simply repeat the discredited assertion continuously, in a Goebbels-like "big lie" fashion, in the hopes that someone merely scanning the thread might read your words, miss the reply, and so come away with the impression that "Bush was warned." This is the same despicable behavior we are now seeing emanate from the Democratic Party Press Relations organization that calls itself "journalism" in this country. Mimicing the disgusting behavior of Democratic Party activists masquerading as journalists, leveling partisan political charges from their perches as "observers," marks you as just another one of them. A second behavior you engage in which we also commonly see in partisan flying monkeys is that of relying on ignorance of specialized trade or business knowledge to advance an argument that in fact has no substance. "Middle Eastern dudes hanging around flight schools!" Quelle horreur! Except that anyone who knows even a little bit about the commercial aviation industry knows that almost every airline and government in the world that flies Boeing (or now-Boeing McDonnell-Douglas jets) sends their pilots to the United States for training. "Middle Eastern dudes" have been a significant fraction of U.S. flight school attendees for thirty years. There was absolutely nothing unusual about having such people in flight school. My own view is that this attack is a serious miscalculation by a Party leadership that spends too much time with a narrow circle of associates (and I include the party hacks who are employed as our "mainstream journalists" in this group) who thought they had a prayer of selling this Cynthia McKinney delusion to the American people. My guess is that if you aren't banned first, you'll be called off by your own employers within the next 24 hours. This attack is a really dumb idea that is going to backfire Big Time on both the Democratic Congressional Leadership and their press sychophants. It fact it may already be too close to November to flip the switches back on all the "could go either way" voters who saw this episode as despicable, disgusting, perhaps bordering on treasonous, and indicative of a political party that has so little to offer that it would stoop to this to try to get elected. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you lost the Senate, and any chance of taking the House, with this attack, and you won't come back from it in time to save your bacon come November. And Fox News will get another ratings boost, because if this episode showed anything, it's that the news media in the United States cannot be trusted to do anything but blast Democratic Party propaganda through the airwaves, even to the point of telling us that the President of the United States knew of an imminent attack on our soil and did nothing to prevent it. Whatever passes for wisdom in your cocktail circle, that is not the impression the American people have of George W. Bush, and it is not an impression that you can sell them. Rather than listen to such garbage, the people will throw out not only the garbage, but the disgusting little people who tried to sell it to them. |
I think what's upsetting people is that you are making assertions which are known to be contrary to fact, and you are persisting in them long after these assertions have been reliably debunked. You insist on referring to one of those daily "We suspect terrorists are going to hijack an airliner one of these days" statements in a briefing book as a "warning," as though the government should shut down commercial transportation every time some field agent anywhere in the world hears one of these things. Buy a vowel: the intelligence agencies get dozens of these every day. Sifting through them is never going to be an exact science, except in hindsight.