From my quick scan of the blogosphere this morning, I can see that the post-CNN debate questions and accusations are piling up. A surprising number of liberal blogs are complaining that the audience and the questions had a decidedly pro-Clinton stance. I’d say the evidence is stacking up in their favor.
And Jim Hoft has the definitive response to the news.
Back in 2002, Senator Max Cleland’s Republican opponent Saxby Chambliss ran a critical ad which criticized Cleland’s dismal record on the Homeland Security bill. Democrats have relentlessly criticized that ad, and used it as a call to arms of sorts – as they have the Swift Boat Vet ads – against the alleged “smear tactics” used by Republicans in order to win an election. The claim (scroll) has always been some variation of Cleland’s face supposedly being morphed into Osama’s or Saddam’s, or both.
How many times have conservatives heard over the years reports about GWB’s love/hate relationship with the press, and heard from the Usual Suspects on how the Bush administration supposedly works “unsually hard” at controlling media access to high ranking admin officials, including the President himself? That the Bush administration’s alleged “heavy-handed” approaches over what they allow to be filtered down to the news media versus what they want to “keep secret” are “assaults” on the “independent media” and “sweeping and dangerous attacks by this administration on investigative journalism“? Quite frankly, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard such arguments, but we all know they are voluminous. The underlying implication of all of the assertions being made by these “champions of free speech” is that the Bush administration has engaged in “unprecedented” and “chilling” tactics designed to “undermine” the watchdog role of the mainstream press.
Last year, their “Person of the Year” was us. They are taking a poll on their website to see who readers think deserve should get title. So far, author J.K. Rowling and The Goracle are in the one and two spots respectively.
Defeatocrats take notice: The good news is becoming so frequent in Iraq, that even the anti-war MSM can’t ignore it anymore:
