Smoke and mirrors
There’s a phony “controversy” being brewed up by the righties with an able assist from the media, concerning a misspoken joke by Sen. Kerry and the resulting purposeful twisting and attacking the twist strawman move by the right. The media is pushing this so hard that even Ms. Grumpy was aware of it from her deep groundhog lair of studying. (I heard it mentioned on NPR twice in my commute last night and three times this morning. I can just imagine what Faux and the wingnutosphere is doing. All for a single misstatement by a senator who is not even running for reelection; a misstatement that, even when a blown joke, is just a truism – the wealthy and well educated form only a tiny fraction of the military).
In any event, this issue is:
a) irrelevant;
b) wasn’t defamatory; and
c) is an attempt to distract people from Iraq, Katrina, Iraq, Foley, Iraq, Delay, Iraq, Cunningham, Iraq, Abramoff, Iraq, civil liberties, Iraq, warrantless wiretapping, Iraq, domestic spying, Iraq and Iraq
We should also note how batshit crazy John McCain, who has been silent on Cheney’s waterboarding “no-brainer” comment and the US military abandoning a soldier and obeying the commands of a foreign leader, is oh-so-vocal about this nonissue.
Of course, Kerry got a golden opportunity to call the Busheviks cowards and reemphasize Iraq during this attack, which he did use. It’s not stopping the handwringing by a bunch of supposedly media-savvy center-lefties (yeah, I’m looking at you, Huffington) of course, but Kerry did his part. If the Dems had any sort of influence on the media or a bold approach, this faux dustup could be totally turned against the GOP and their illegal, criminal, stupid invasion of Iraq.
