Monday, June 21, 2004

A dollar short... and a day late... Editors of The New Republic (falsely labeled a "left-leaning weekly") finally admit the obvious: Iraq War was a bad idea 8:33:23 PM    comment []

Media tids and bits Here are the SCLM at it again, perpetrating the tried and true propaganda foolishness that unless the Democratic nominee is penniless, he must be a hypocrite. (No mention made of the GOP's net worth.) And here is a nice summation of Tricky Dick Cheney versus the editorial board of the NY Times (which is oddly liberal, in contrast to the SC liberalism of the newsroom). Here's a choice quote: The Times editorial, titled "Show Us the Proof," said it was "surprised by the depth and ferocity of the administration's capacity for denial." It observed that what Cheney called "longstanding ties" between Saddam and bin Laden so far amount amounted "to one confirmed meeting, after which the Iraq government did not help Al Qaeda. By those standards, the United States has longstanding ties to North Korea." Cheney, as usual, the newspaper said, "is not prepared to offer any evidence beyond the flimsy-to-nonexistent arguments he has used in the past." 8:29:46 PM    comment []

Bush can read? And here's confirmation that Bush does indeed look at the headlines on the front pages of major newspapers-- even if he doesn't actually read the stories. Matthew Cooper writes in Time magazine that Bush "was furious when he saw a New York Times headline saying NO QAEDA-IRAQ TIE." But Cooper writes: "When it comes to describing purported connections between al-Qaeda and Saddam, the Bush Administration sometimes sounds like a teenager carefully delineating the different shades of romance from 'seeing other people' to 'hanging out' to 'hooking up.'" 7:04:15 PM    comment []