In which we go from “good news is bad news” to “bad news is good news”
Last August, I wrote a post about the left’s negative attitudes as they relate to good news, especially when it’s good news related to the war on terror. More recently, we’ve seen this attitude when it was noted by several mainstream media outlets that prominent war critics were changing their tunes on Iraq, thanks to the success of the surge. The Usual Suspects didn’t and don’t want to hear anything that might contradict that their day in and day out bashing of the administration’s change in strategy in Iraq as a “failure.” And just yesterday, the Daily Kos blog couldn’t even bring themselves to admit that the surge had anything to do with the dramatic fall in casualty figures – both civilian and troop – in Iraq. They gave credit to …Muqtada al-Sadr.