Posted by
Dave Perkins on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:08:20 AM
Heard on Bill Bennett's show this morning (
I"ll link to the audio when Bennett's site, to which I am a premium subscriber, uploads it)-
-- an audio clip of CNN's Jack Cafferty, during a rant in which he claims Rumsfeld should be fired, saying of the SecDef, "
he's not just an obnoxious jerk, he's a war criminal."
Granted it's an editorial piece. Still, it's CNN's paid editorial staffer, a man who's on the air day in and day out representing CNN.
I'm of the opinion that a truly unbiased, straight up professional news network would have fired him immediately. Fortunately for Cafferty, CNN is none of those things.
Cafferty based his rant on "Military Times" opinion pieces, in which they claim that Rumsfeld has lost credibility, the confidence of his troops, yada yada. But the media has yet to mention that this is a group of newspapers owned by Gannett, so they're no different from any big city paper. And the military itself, I'm told, views them as the "tabloid press of the military" and generally ignores what is printed in the Navy Times, the Army Times, etc. They are civilian operations and in no way reflect the opinions of anyone in uniform, save the half-dozen disgruntled retired generals who've got it in for Rumsfeld personally (
I'm guessing they were the losers in the arguments about how to redesign the military for the 21st century, and they retired out of petulance).
Furthermore, It's obvious that these newspapers printed this piece expressly for the purpose of giving the networks something to talk about on election eve, which makes it another hit piece on the Bush administration. Period.
Add it up: the Military Times hitpiece, gay old Mark Foley, that meth-buying gay massage-receiving Haggard guy (
whoever he is or was, the Dems believe he's on a plateau with Dr. Dobson or Billy Graham... me, I've never heard of Haggard), George Allen's racist college days (
did he or didn't he use the N word 30 years ago?), the Michael J. Fox ads that claim Jim Talent voted against stem cell research (
he supports all such research except embryonic, but Fox deliberately confused the issue), Bob Woodward's book, the Bush assassination movie, the Gore environmental movie, and the list goes on and on and on....
... reminding me of the 2004 campaign, featuring a Paul O'Neill book, a Kitty Kelley book, a Michael Moore movie, a novel about how to assassinate presidents, an accusation that Bush's military lost 300 tons of high explosives to terrorists who stole them from the military ammo dump at al Qaqaa (
the story vanished the day after the election, never to be heard again), and the whipped cream on top-- Dan Rather's fake-but-accurate Texas National Guard documents.
Remember that the Foley story, which was sat on for years (
who had the lewd text messages and how many children did he endanger by concealing this information for years for political purposes?), was released ONE DAY after it was still legally possible for Foley to remove his name from the ballot.
And then there's the very
latest stem cell ad from Missouri (HT
M. K. Ham blog), in which a blond blue-eyed little girl is heard to say of Senator Jim Talent, "who is he to decide who lives and who dies?"
But with all this phony electioneering in the supposedly unbiased and professional media, what's on the lips of the anchors and reporters over the weekend?
Saddam's sentence was deliberately engineered by Bush to fall on election weekend, to make his war look good.
Methinks the guilty dog barks first.