Democrats can't say they weren't warned.The Red flags were all over the place.
No, not warnings of possible hijackings and briefing memos -- the White House, it turns out, did share the Aug. 6th memo with Capitol Hill the very day after the President was briefed -- but warnings that their high-risk campaign to profit politically by slandering the President as either a colossal incompetent or 9/11 terror mastermind would ultimately backfire.
For residents of Palm Beach county, Democrats and their Big Media toadies last week accused the President -- in sinister Nixonian lingo, no less -- of ignoring intelligence "warnings" last summer that al-Qaeda suicide hijackers planned to dive-bomb passenger jets into big city skyscrapers, and that the attacks were imminent.
The ugly, malicious charge -- as expected -- sparked a media uproar, the likes of which hadn't been seen since Iran/Contra.
Bush "knew that al-Qaeda was planning to hijack a U.S. airline", belched CNN's Judy Woodruff in dripping melodrama, her stagy theatrics insinuating 'we've met the enemy, and the enemy is -- not Bin Laden -- but BUSH!'
Yipee! The sharks were circling the White House. Bush's bloodthirsty enemies -- legion in Washington -- could barely contain their glee; they smelled victory. The President will face mounting pressure to resign (or impeachment), they thought, once the "truth" -- i.e., reprobacy or dereliction, take your pick -- is "known."
Democrats, mortified by Bush's sustained popularity, shorn of issues to run on for the fall, breathed a sigh of relief. To them, this 'mother-of-all-scandals' could threaten to bring down the whole Republican party, at best, or tip political scales against the President, at least.
Swarming the airwaves, a full-scale, no-holds-barred media propaganda war, 24/7. For the presstitutes, the goal was to deal Bush a death-blow by hog-tying the President, in the most defamatory manner imaginable, to the crimes of 9/11. For Big Media, the hope was convincing the sheeple that Bush had secretly plotted 9/11, or imply he was living a double-life -- in public, he plays the War President; undercover, he's a terror-mastermind, breaking bread with Osama. And if the sheeple wouldn't bite? Big Media had a back-up plan: Jawbone voters with "evidence" of Bush's supreme 'incompentence.'
Both tactics were tried, in fact.
NBC's Katie Curic, feigning bloodcurdling horror, spouted lurid, Watergate-era innuendo, 'what did the President know, and when did he know it?', calumny later regurgitated, verbatim, by ever-despicable House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt.
A gloating Tom Daschle, Senate Democrat leader, couldn't wait to get in the blame game. He said he was "gravely concerned" that Bush sat on his hands -- did nothing -- despite "warnings" of imminent 9/11 attacks. He goaded the White House to cough up the briefing memos, darkly hinting they contain the 'smoking gun'.
Waving the New York Post's roaring "Bush Knew!" cover-headline on the Senate floor, Hillary Clinton, of Rose Law Firm fame, in a fit of hypocrisy urged the President to "come before the American people at the earliest possible time to answer the questions so many New Yorkers and Americans are asking". Sinister suggestions that Bush was somehow culpable were barely disguised, indeed, Hillary might as well've blurted out, "Bush, you murderer, why did you bomb us?!!"
The network nightly news broadcasts were beyond feeding frenzy; heck, they'd all but convicted Bush of crimes against humanity. Rather, Jennings, Brokaw -- all three had their nose out of joint, flailing away at the White House.
The wires (AP, Reuters, UPI) employed the most callous, cold-hearted, dirty, despicable tactics, among them, trotting out grief-stricken relatives and friends of WTC bombing victims.
'How do feel about the President now, now that you've learned Bush knew about 9/11 in advance, but had taken no steps to prevent it?', bereaved loved ones and friends were asked (in words to the effect).
For them, reliving the horror was bad enough, but now they're told their President was either involved or didn't give diddley-squat.
Look, I'd never had very high expectations for the media, but I'd never thought I'd ever see anything quite as revolting, as repulsive, as loathsome, as hideous, as odious, as disgusting, as obscene this -- to wit, the cavalcade of media scavengers preying on 9/11 families and friends.
What a travesty.
All to bring down the President.
But -- not surprisingly -- their efforts, premised as it was on a slew of media lies, failed, miserably. Indeed, the President's popularity stands undiminished -- in some polls, his job ratings actually crept upwards -- despite a wave of media slander, mudslinging, character assassination, defamation, smear, libel, invective and insult.
Nice try, scoundrels.
Anyway, that's.....
My two cents....
"JohnHuang2"
1) Attacks Bush
2) Diverts attention away from the Dems (see? It wasn't our fault).
I wish there was a way of subpeonaing the Dem's polling of their focus groups the week before this broke. If I was on a talk show with them - that's what I'd ask them over and over. What did you know and when did you it?? Show me your talking points faxes for the last month.