Monday, June 16, 2008



Conservatives can't say anything right

I can do no better than to reproduce below a post from The Weekly standard:

When Does "Diplomacy" Mean War?

When you are Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press. George W. Bush yesterday went out of his way yesterday to emphasize his preference for a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis. But in this hilarious dispatch Loven explains that when Bush says "diplomacy" he's using code words for military action.
"Within the coded language of the U.S. attitude toward Iran, several small changes in Bush's rhetoric Wednesday added up to a difference. Three times, he called a diplomatic solution `my first choice,' implying there are others. He said `we'll give diplomacy a chance to work,' meaning it might not. He also offered, without even being asked a question about Iran, that `all options are on the table' -- a longtime standard refrain, not heard as much lately, that neither confirms nor denies an intention to use military force."

Remind me again why Americans don't trust journalists. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Patrick McIlheran (a conservative on the paper's editorial board) treats us to some appropriate mocking here. Money quote:
"So, the guy says diplomacy is his first choice. How sinister. He wants to give diplomats time to work, the warmonger. He says all options are on the table, and isn't that closed-minded?

Maybe if Bush declares his intention to take out Iran's nuclear facilities Loven will explain that he's ready to talk. Nah.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

One good thing is that the media is becoming more obvious. They are now openly and actively interfering with the political and electoral process in this country! And you can add the judicial and legislative process's as well.

Make no mistake. They've been doing this for a long time, but had always prefered to be more "covert" about it. Now, they are totally out of the closet. They seem to have no fear that the public finally sees them as being what they turly are, overwhelming left-wing, and in many cases, radically left-wing.

Could it be they realize that at this point in our history, the American people are weaker, less interested, more easily manipulated, willing to believe just about anything they hear on TV, willing to accept any amount of lies and abuse from politicians, big business, (ie: oil ect.) and the media itself, and generally speaking, lack the will do protest anything?

Make no mistake. The media IS one of the most dangerous and destructive forces we face in America today!