August 23, 2004

NEVER RESTING NEVER SLEEPING: THE NYTIMES AGENDA ROLLS ON

        Helped along by the post-modern liberal media Sen. Kerry has carefully crafted a war hero persona. He is a courageous warrior with a sensitive side who therefore deserves to be President. At the same time, the liberal media have created a Bush persona they can feel superior to: He is the bellicose fool who offends the good hearted and well meaning folk around the world. He is not a glib wordsmith, so he can be ridiculed when he speaks. Here's an example of "reporting" that simply changes the facts to convey the wanted image. It won't surprise to learn that it's author is Elizabeth Bumiller of the NYTimes. The NYTimes has decided that any mention of 9-11's impact on the city would be "exploiting" a tragedy. Mentioning reality and reminding people of how the President handled things is not sufficiently sensitive to the delicate flowers of the NYTimes. It's unfair and will make them stamp their feet and feel abused. Here is Bumiller's description of Bush's visit and the words he spoke in the ruins of the World Trade Center:

"...the convention's timing would remind voters of what the campaign considers Mr. Bush's finest hour - the moment he grabbed the bullhorn in the rubble at the tip of Manhattan and shouted that the people who had knocked down the buildings would hear from him soon..."

        Thus we see the liberal spinning of history in which mere facts are discarded. Instead we are given a self centered, bellicose president: he grabs, he shouts, he shouts what he is going to do to the perpetrators. The focus is entirely on Bush's personal response to bin Laden and the terrorists. He's mister macho man, looking for an excuse to fight. Only one trouble: he never uttered the clumsy, self referential words Bumiller casually attributes to him. Here's what he was inspired to say and it's obvious why it was so perfect for the moment, embracing all of us in the resolve to fight back. It was not a lengthy Clinton style, all-about-me peroration. It was clear, to the point and inspiring.

"..I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon..."

I guess when President Bush spoke for all of us he shouldn't have included the reporters from the New York Times.