Pro-Defeat Media Backup Plan
Kagan in Post takes down whiny Post story from last week about the lack of a surge backup plan. In light of surge success, he wants to know what the pro-defeat media’s* backup plan is.
* Not to be confused with the pro-victory media. Yeah. It exists. A small but firecely proud minority. Hi Don. Hi Michelle. How’s that Nevada debate thing going, Fox? I saw you’ve got Kucinich in your corner, which is weird but principled. Hi a bunch of other people and places I don’t have time to get into right now, all sadly overshadowed by the New York Times, the CNNs, the APs of this world.
(Sorry, was late for a marathon weekend shift of changing “militant” to “terrorist” in AP copy at the conservative tabloid I work for. A few others worth mentioning, given the generalized MSM bashing that takes place, justified though much of it is. NYT’s John Burns has always been tough on the U.S. effort as a reporter but, last I heard, stands by his support for the takedown of Saddam and wants to see the surge work. Eli Lake at the New York Sun done some good work lately. I’ve been liking what I see on ABC’s Blotter … reporting on the FBI NSL abuse without feeling the need to turn it into a Patriot Act Bush bash, for example. Michael Kelly, late Atlantic Monthly editor, is dead, we can’t know where he’d be but we know he was a staunch defender of America’s projection of power for good in the world. Of course you’ve got your NY Post and your Washington Times, but the Washington Post editorial page has had some lucid moments lately. A shout out to all the radio stations spread across this great country who have called me up and let me rant lately after seeing me do same at PJM.)
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:28 am on Sunday, March 11, 2007
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March 11th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
The Palm Beach Post’s Iraq reporting clock seems stuck on about two months ago.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
The drive-by media doesn’t need a backup plan. They just have convenient memory loss on the road to another story.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I’m sure that the pro-defeat media will apply the appropriate spin to show that they were for victory before they were against it. It’s their way.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Purge your brain of the defeatists. See 300.
March 11th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
The pity is that the people live in confusion while trying to figure out what is really going on. I use the Russian method of reading the news. Follow the pretzel line of reasoning to try to tease out what isn’t being said. Rid the copy of all the spin words and phrases, and you’re left with a line or two of actual news.
I’m not dancing yet. Too many things can go wrong. I’m guardedly optimistic.
March 11th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
What IF….
They have continuously predicted doom and gloom, they have told their readers and their voters that America cannot win, they have whined about not being able to force our president to retreat in defeat, but have they asked, one time…. “what if”?
March 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Call me snarky, or whatever, but I prefer to view the idiot’s calling for a pre-announcement of future contingency plans as a really incompetent job of espionage.
March 11th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
The backup plan is to keep doing everything they can to make us lose the war so they can say they were right all along.
March 11th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
2007.03.11 Surrenderpolitik update
See previous.Kagan: The surge is working Allahpundit Not Fred Kagan, the AEI scholar who co-authored the surge strategy on which the military’s own plan is based, but Robert Kagan, author and WaPo columnist. There’s not much new here and arguments
March 11th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Bill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.11
Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post, some things too short to excerpt and too good to not mention. Please feel free to use this post for comments and
March 11th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I wish they’d started the surge a year ago. We could now be asking all the defeatists and doomsayers, “Excuse me, what were you saying?” Or we could just be saying STFU. As it is now, we’re just going to have to wait and see if it’s not too late.
March 11th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
RebeccaH:
Sometimes you just have to ride things out and waite until the boil comes to a proper head before you can lance and drain it.
There’s a whoppin lot of moving parts that had to all come together and the local politicos had to be given enough rope to come close enough to hanging themselves that they finally understood that there was no freekin way that playing the militia games wasn’t going to put them under the dirt themselves too.
What’s really making the difference now, isn’t the extra troops, so much as it’s finally, the local politicos have removed political protection from their pet thugs.