Supercritical Irony Concentration, Part 4

[tongodeon]

Interesting comments from George Bush this Veterans' Day:

While it's perfectly legitimate to criticize my decision or the conduct of the war, it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began. (Applause.)Apparently it's "deeply irresponsible" to argue that we invaded Iraq to find WMDs until no WMDs are found, then argue that

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[tritone]

How come there's no high-profile reaction speech from, say, I dunno, Democrats making exactly these same points?

[tongodeon]

Presumably because politicians can't speak more than a short sentence without the content being unusable on the TV news.

The persons whose job is to make these points are the pundits - the Democratic equivalents of Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, and others. Does the left have anyone like that?

[wisn]

Michael Moore comes to mind even though he's too far to the left of most Democrats. In general the Democratic Party does not present a unified front or standardized talking points for their pundit class to address the public. This is not to say the party wouldn't mind, but I don't see it happening, even if they tried.

[drieuxster]

The more important part of the Problem is do the REPUBLICANS have anyone to counter the Limbaugh's, O'Reilly, Coulters, and the rest of their ilk who just are such openlly America Bashers.

You guys wanted a TreeHuggerInChief, but maybe next time we should elect a republican as president with a mission to restore the dignity to the white house....

Memory is not just Theft Any MORE!

[drieuxster]

It seems that your open act of Memory is a direct implementation of Memory as Terrorist ATTACK!

[jwgh]

Here's Muhammed Ali's take on the President (who presented him with a Presidential Medal of Freedom last week).

[drieuxster]

for your laugh festival, some of my veteran's friends were all pissed off that Cassius Clay, the draft dodger, got the medal of freedom..... and then we noted to them, that we got DICK on veteran's day....

things are just to, well, mainstream for most folks....

[jwgh]

I dunno, it seems more honorable than the route the guy giving the medal took during the Vietnam War.

You got Dick Cheney? What did you do with him?

[doublejack]

The Washington Post actually did a pretty good article on it the next day -- but it was a Saturday, so few people read it.

[tritone]

Luckily, the Bush speech doesn't seem to have had much effect on his poll numbers. (The poll was Friday through Sunday, so presumably should have included post-speech reaction--assuming anyone was even paying attention.)

[tongodeon]

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

CNN/USA Today/Gallup 11/11-13/05 37
Newsweek 11/10-11/05 36
FOX/Opinion Dynamics RV 11/8-9/05 36
AP-Ipsos * 11/7-9/05 37
NBC/Wall Street Journal 11/4-7/05 38
Pew 11/3-6/05 36
AP-Ipsos * 10/31 - 11/2/05 37
ABC/Washington Post 10/30 - 11/2/05 39
CBS 10/30 - 11/1/05 35