Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Its Really Scary Out There
I'm afraid reality is getting to the point where the truth looks no different then fiction. Take for instance John Kerry's speech at NYU yesterday (yes, it is driving our family nuts that we give all this money to a school that is the spring board for democratic ideology (if there is such a thing)). What amazes me after looking at Dan Balz's report in today's Washington Post, is not that he has another position on the war in Iraq but that he can say these things with a straight face:
"To Bush's argument, made repeatedly on the campaign trail, that despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction he would do the same thing now as he did in the spring of 2003, Kerry said: "How can he possibly be serious? Is he really saying to America that if we know there was no imminent threat, no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to al Qaeda, the United States should have invaded Iraq? My answer: resoundingly no. Because a commander in chief's first responsibility is to make a wise and responsible decision to keep America safe."
Officials in the Bush-Cheney campaign immediately responded that Kerry had again changed his position. They cited the senator's words during the Democratic primaries, when he criticized former Vermont governor Howard Dean for saying that the Iraqi leader's capture did not make the United States safer, arguing those who believed that did not have the judgment to be president."
It feels like only yesterday that Mr. Kerry said that knowing what we know now he would still vote for giving the President the authority to go to war.
Then there is the "apology" by Dan Rather. This guy really has to go. Another case of not being able to differentiate telling the truth from lying. From his statement yesterday:
"We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism." Here the Wall Street Journal took the time to point out that these words directly contradict comments the reporter made on August 30th:
"Asked if the media were paying too much attention to the Swift Boat Veterans' criticisms of John Kerry, Mr. Rather replied: "In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn't do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns." Yet nine days later Mr. Rather was reporting on Mr. Bush's National Guard service as if it were the story of a lifetime."
Just when I feel like I never want to click on a publication link again in my lifetime, my extensive review of news sources uncovered the first original well written thought that I have read in months of blogging. This from my friend Marc Fisher of the Washington Post in his review of the new American Indian museum:
"The Holocaust Memorial Museum started us down this troubling path. A first-rate endeavor with a rigorous, probing approach to history, the Holocaust museum -- a privately funded enterprise on government land -- should nonetheless never have been given a spot near the Mall. Its location there opened the gate for the deconstruction of American history into ethnically separate stories told in separate buildings. Museums of black and Hispanic history are in the works."
A good place to stop.
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"To Bush's argument, made repeatedly on the campaign trail, that despite the failure to find weapons of mass destruction he would do the same thing now as he did in the spring of 2003, Kerry said: "How can he possibly be serious? Is he really saying to America that if we know there was no imminent threat, no weapons of mass destruction, no ties to al Qaeda, the United States should have invaded Iraq? My answer: resoundingly no. Because a commander in chief's first responsibility is to make a wise and responsible decision to keep America safe."
Officials in the Bush-Cheney campaign immediately responded that Kerry had again changed his position. They cited the senator's words during the Democratic primaries, when he criticized former Vermont governor Howard Dean for saying that the Iraqi leader's capture did not make the United States safer, arguing those who believed that did not have the judgment to be president."
It feels like only yesterday that Mr. Kerry said that knowing what we know now he would still vote for giving the President the authority to go to war.
Then there is the "apology" by Dan Rather. This guy really has to go. Another case of not being able to differentiate telling the truth from lying. From his statement yesterday:
"We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism." Here the Wall Street Journal took the time to point out that these words directly contradict comments the reporter made on August 30th:
"Asked if the media were paying too much attention to the Swift Boat Veterans' criticisms of John Kerry, Mr. Rather replied: "In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn't do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns." Yet nine days later Mr. Rather was reporting on Mr. Bush's National Guard service as if it were the story of a lifetime."
Just when I feel like I never want to click on a publication link again in my lifetime, my extensive review of news sources uncovered the first original well written thought that I have read in months of blogging. This from my friend Marc Fisher of the Washington Post in his review of the new American Indian museum:
"The Holocaust Memorial Museum started us down this troubling path. A first-rate endeavor with a rigorous, probing approach to history, the Holocaust museum -- a privately funded enterprise on government land -- should nonetheless never have been given a spot near the Mall. Its location there opened the gate for the deconstruction of American history into ethnically separate stories told in separate buildings. Museums of black and Hispanic history are in the works."
A good place to stop.
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