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March 27, 2006

Defending terrorism by ignoring it

Since its not going well in Iraq and the administration/GOP knitting circle is well aware of it..they've gotta find someone to blame.

And since poll numbers are showing that blaming the patriots who've spoken up against the war isn't working--the GOP marketeers have decided its time to shift to a new blame target: the media.

At first it seemed like it might work. Blabberwokies like Howard Kurtz and Wolf Blitzer have done their usual echo chamber bit to help out the GOP spin.

But the individuals in the media who are working in Iraq and those who know what's going on over there are starting to bite back in a hard way.

Its obviously easier for the Republicans to spin away the problems in Iraq instead of facing them. Facing them is good for the Iraqis and important for the US, but would be a bitter political pill. The Republicans are nothing if not shameful about their hold on political power.

Which means of course that the beat will go on in Iraq. And when the "journalists are fat, lazy, sons of bitches who won't leave their cushy Baghdad hotel rooms to investigate all the happy horseshit that Laura Ingraham pretends is going on" fails, there'll be a new target trotted out to cast blame upon.

Update: Howard Kurtz appears to be backing off his initial support of the GOP(except you have go to the bottom of the second page to find it):

The record shows that administration charges that reporters in Iraq are ignoring signs of progress are not true, although most journalists say the dangerous conditions make it difficult to talk to ordinary Iraqis. But sometimes the unrelenting violence has a way of intruding on the news agenda.

While in Baghdad, ABC's Jake Tapper was working on a light feature about an Iraqi station's sitcom. While his cameras were rolling, word came that the manager of the entertainment division had been assassinated. That, of course, became the story.

Until Republicans start facing up to what they've wrought and deal with it, it will continue to go on. No amount of casting blame to others will work now.

Posted by Carla at March 27, 2006 09:58 AM