Numerous blogs caught a major goof by ABC News in a headline posted there about a speech the President gave today on the Iraq war before a VFW convention, in which he claimed that we can’t leave Iraq, because it would be disastrous, just like it was when we left Vietnam. Flopping Aces has the screencap.
And Clay Waters at Newsbusters catches the NYT flip-flopping on the validity of making Iraq to Vietnam comparisons.
The media made a huge deal out of the comparison today, as though it was the first time the President had ever made the comparison, but apparently they have short attention spans as last November, the President echoed a similar theme about the Iraq war and how we can’t leave or it will turn into another Vietnam - and he did so while he was in Vietnam. The publisher of those remarks? None other than the NYT.
I swear, the mediots have become so predictable most of us could do this stuff in our sleep.
BTW, here’s a transcript of the speech - there’s audio at that same link as well.
Related: Speaking of media bias, don’t miss my friend and fellow North Carolinian Patrick O’Hannigan’s piece about the media’s desperate attempts at trying to remain relevant, and his suggestions for what they should be doing instead in order to try and earn back a significant level of credibility and respectability. See also: Don Surber’s short, sweet, and to the point analysis of Bush’s VFW speech.
Update: Amy Proctor has video highlights from the President’s speech. You can watch them here.
ST I am reading some history:
LINK
Engineer Memoirs: Lieutenant General Arthur G. Trudeau
CHAPTER XIV 7th Infantry Division
Now those experts are in charge.
Why do people still pay them?
Of course, if people were so smart the Dems would be extinct.
Comment by stackja @ 8/22/2007 - 10:55 pm
I have the videos of the speech on my blog. If you weren’t able to watch it today, do yourself a favor and watch it tomorrow. Bush’s speech was fantastic!
HOOAH.
Comment by Amy Proctor @ 8/23/2007 - 12:39 am
Thanks for the heads up, Amy! Just linked up to ‘em.
Comment by Sister Toldjah @ 8/23/2007 - 12:47 am
- With even the smallest improvements in Iraq, and visible effects of the surge, the Left and its MSM lap dogs, are showing signs of raw desperation when it gets to the point where no matter what Bush says, they are driven to distort, misquote, and just plain baldfaced lie.
- Hopefully, things will continue to improve, not just because it would be such poetic justice to watch the wheels totally fall off the Secular Progressive anti-american wagon, but america really needs this win for long term future stability, not just partisan payback.
- BBH -
Comment by Big Bang Hunter @ 8/23/2007 - 4:14 am
BBH: Speaking of wheels……..their full blown logic is about as impressive as the time I heard an idjut brag to me how far he drove on a blown tire. I felt compelled to ask him two things.
Did he know it? Was it his rig?…….a pair of no’s beats a flushed house every time.
Comment by forest hunter @ 8/23/2007 - 4:29 am