Senator Chuck Hagel: The new John McCain?
I’ve watched with amusement over the last several days as the media has all but fallen at the feet of Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, treating them like they used to treat Senator John McCain, which is to say, they are treating him like a ‘maverick’. Since McCain’s media darling days are over because he’s tried to break bread with the "Christian right" and is on friendly terms with the President over his surge plan, the media has been on the hunt for another Republican war veteran – one who is at odds with the President – who they can bestow their unofficial ‘maverick’ crown. Hagel, it appears, is that man and is now being portrayed as a "rebel" and even in certain conservative circles, a man with "guts", because of his opposition to the surge – and the Iraq war. Micky Kaus at Slate begs to differ on the assessments of Hagel as being ‘courageous’ on this issue:
Air America “rescued”
It might be rescued financially, but otherwise the people on AAR still need serious help.
What we’ve all been wondering
John Fund asks: Why isn’t the Sandy Berger scandal major news? And not just from a perspective of him taking classified documents and stuffing them in his pants and stashing some of them under a construction trailer, but why he did it. What was he trying to hide and why? Fund speculates on the answers – and says Congress and America deserves to know them.
Another admission of liberal media bias
From CBS News business correspondent Anthony Mason, who believes the media treats stories about big business from an ‘us versus them’ perspective, and also thinks the “traditional media tends to skew more liberal.”
Former Dem presidential contender Wesley Clark: We should ‘talk’ with Ahmadinejad
I watched this last night on Hannity and Colmes and wanted to blog about it, so I’m glad to see that Ian at Hot Air has posted a video of this clueless wonder’s comments on how we should ‘talk’ with Ahmadinejad, the Islamofascist Holocaust denier who believes Israel should be wiped off the map, and who believes the US and Israel will “soon be destroyed”. Make sure to watch the whole thing, as Clark apparently believes that we could actually engage in a meaningful dialogue with this modern day version of Hitler.