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Okay, but she's leaving out (and missing) one of the most overused phrases of the Columbia "tragedy" (first: I ask all of you, bluntly, HOW GREAT A TRAGEDY REALLY WAS IT?) media feeding-frenzy -- "Healer-in-Chief". Sometimes the President must be "Healer-in-Chief", spouted the news outlets. Shut UP, shut UP, shut UP. This kind of blather from our own media makes honest Americans sound like a bunch of schoolchildren ready to pee our pants at any moment.

No one I know has been to therapy over the Shuttle explosion. No one has needed "time to heal". No one even really TALKS about it. What we're talking about is: "Hey, we're *bleep*ing strapped for cash," and kibitzing about the war. America is not so weak that she needs her own personal psychotherapist. The media would have you believe otherwise; the media would have you believe America is in enrolled in several twelve-step programs and needs "psychic healing" on a Woody Allen angst level.

BS! Grrr. Sorry. Just that this one has REALLY ticked me off. It demeans the country. We take a licking and we keep on ticking. As Churchill said, if you find yourself in Hell...*keep going*. The fact that Bush spoke at the memorial service is expected; the speech was touching. However, I think the nation could have gotten along just fine without it (except for all the libs who would be crying in the corner and asking where Bush was).

Grr. /rant off

--CWL

The media emboldens our enemies. This panty-waist whining and psycho-therapeutic state drivel included. The more we look like whimps to the evil ones the more they think they can push us around. Which ultimately makes it more likely that we will have to kill a lot of their people to put them down. I agree with your sentiments: "shut up, shut up, shut up."