Gateway Pundit has the scoop on a series of bogus reports of atrocities and attacks in Iraq. It has even occurred in Afghanistan but that is a Reuters report so no surprise. And, of course, that one was another fake. There is a yearning on the left for the US to suffer a defeat in Iraq and even in Afghanistan. Some of this is a longing for their youth by 60s radicals whose high point in life was the US defeat in Vietnam. Some is the old left wing theory that the US is imperialist and is a bastion of evil capitalism. The enemy, of course, has figured this out and plays to this audience. Maybe the MSM has decided that their clientele is the political left and they are catering to this audience. In some cases, this seems to have been a questionable business decision. These reports, and the credulity of the press to anti-American fake stories, explains, as if we still needed one, why talk radio is a conservative information source. The internet, especially Google, is less reliable unless one digs through all the left wing links put there by efforts at gaming Google.
Of course, the MSM supports the troops even while slandering them.
I try to avoid Google due to the leftist bias of the links. I use AltaVista or Dogpile first. It is simply amazing how unreliable the main stream media has become. To be that incorrect so often makes one wonder if they are misleading the public on purpose. More likely they are allowing themselves to be mislead by Americas enemies and prefering not to check out these lies as they validate their own bias.
Well, if you live in a world where disagreements are all on a small scale because everyone in the room agrees with you, how will you ever learn you ever learn your new clothes don’t exist at all?
It’s like Lewis Carrol, in a way: “sentence first, then trial!”
What bothers me is the asymmetry in this issue: the MSM seems inclined to believe any negative information about our being in the Middle East…and yet equally willing to believe any positive information from any source in opposition to the US.
That is certainly true for most academics. I’m hopeful about the voting public (you would be surprised how many academics—despite all their political awareness—do not bother to vote).
Dr. K., I forgot to tell you this. Yesterday, December 7th, I happened to mention to a couple of students after class—they asked what the date was—that it was “…a day that would live in infamy…”
One of the students snorted and said that, no, that was December 11th.
I didn’t argue. What is the point?
“There is a yearning on the left for the US to suffer a defeat in Iraq and even in Afghanistan.”
I’ve been on a couple left wing blogs and confronted some people with this notion. I felt like I was in the inner city, trying to confront drug users about their habit.
What I gather is that the Left supports America, but it is important to them to oppose GW Bush at every opportunity, and this includes rooting for “his” loss in these wars. The domestic crushing of GW trumps any success in a foreign venture.
If one’s actions please evil people, it is time to reassess those actions. So it is with the people who seem dead-set on finding defeat in America’s actions. Mind you, this isn’t “America right or wrong.” But it is the mirror-image of that, a drive to find everything wrong with what we do, and who we are.
As for Bush Derangement Syndrome, it is clearly neurotic and bizarre. What does it matter? Support a candidate who does things you like; that is much more important, especially because GWB is a lame duck right now.
Unless the person is so mentally ill with BDS that they actually think he won’t step down.