Wednesday, August 25, 2004

More Clarification Today's WaPo editorial "Swfit Boat Sniping" avers: Though the ads are being underwritten by longtime Bush partisans, the Kerry campaign's claim of illegal coordination between the Swift boat group and the Bush campaign is unconvincing. Oh really? Thanks for clarifying things for us. 1:57:17 AM    comment [] Clarification If it's OK to argue that Kerry "invited [the] scrutiny" of the Swift Boat Veterans by "making Vietnam [the] centerpiece [of his] campaign," is it also OK argue that the rape victim "invited [the] scrutiny" of her attacker by drawing attention to her nice legs by wearing a short skirt? Just wondering. Postscript: Even David Ignatius parrots the RNC talking point to achieve "balance": But it must be said that Kerry invited this sort of scrutiny by making his Vietnam exploits the centerpiece of last month's Democratic convention. 1:38:21 AM    comment [] Do you hear what Milbank hears? Due to his (and his editor's) journalistic commitment to 'objectivity,' Dana Milbank cannot simply say that Bush and Cheney lie, deceive and slander a lot. So he is forced simply to give a list of quotes, and leave it at that. But he does report of the White House's attempt to "wellstone" the press corps: Now for an update on the White House's ongoing effort to kill the press corps. The White House travel office signed a contract last week with an airline called Primaris to fly the press corps to Bush events. The two-month-old company has only one airplane. True, media representatives gave their blessing to the deal. But that was before they learned that the company's president twice had his pilot's license revoked related to his flying of an "unairworthy" aircraft, that the chief executive flopped in his last attempt to start an airline and that the 15-year-old plane itself was damaged in a hailstorm a decade ago and spent most of the past two years mothballed in France. 12:33:20 AM    comment [] Bob Saget is Lord! Readers may recall that I once worshipped at the First Church of Jesus Christ Elvis. But no more. I think I have now found my true Lord and Savior: Bob Saget. [Thanks to CH] 12:22:11 AM    comment []

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