- Mr. Stein has a bit of explaining to do.
Right. But the fact is that he won’t.
Ever.
Neither will people like Bumiller, Liz Sidoti (AP) or any of the other professional prevaricators and leftist water-carriers who hide behind the “absent malice” façade.
And the proof of this is that half the country still thinks “Bush Lied”, when Joe Wilson IV is actually the documented liar and fraud. Half the country – likely more – think Libby was convicted of “outing” Valerie Plame. Half the country (at least) still thinks the only reason for ousting Saddam was WMDs. Most of the country think the President was chuckling over a mint julep while people were drowning in the N.O. Superdome.
And the reason for all this is that the Republican leadership has ceased to lead. As fine a job as he’s done in most (certainly not all) other areas, this problem starts with the President, who’s been a complete no-show when it comes to public relations.
Although it was from the limited forum of the White House Press Conference, only Tony Snow ever came close to publicly calling the self-righteous, narcissistic media on their outright lies. And if we’re honest – despite the weasel-worded, plausible deniability mechanism used by these blatant propagandists – this “didn’t vet” meme is nothing less than an unsubstantiated lie, not just an otherwise harmless news item with “serious holes”.
So can we please quit kidding ourselves with all this feigned indignity over some useful idiot’s cleverly chosen, poison prose?? Because that’s part of the problem here. Outside people like Tony Snow, this administration and the RNC has done nothing but roll its eyes at each new iteration of the “Bush=Evil” mantra – of which Stein’s deceit is just an extension – instead of actively responding both publicly (loudly) and legally (through litigation).
This problem is precisely analogous to how the Clinton administration allowed Islamist Terrorism to grow into a force capable of 9/11: through the willful blindness of pretending that Islamist Terrorists were “international criminals” instead of the enemy combatants we know them to be and pretending their murderous acts were tantamount to “hate crimes” instead of the acts of war we have since endured.
Only now it’s the Right doing the pretending.
We want to think of them as simple “shills”, but it’s now a plain, undeniable fact that the MSM is no longer simply a quaintly biased but otherwise objective watchdog in this process that is determining the future of our country. Collectively, the MSM’s overwhelmingly Democrat-registered ownership, management and staff are now an integral, active element of the Democrat Party, caught up in the same narcissistic, revenge-seeking holy war they’ve been waging since Al Gore failed to carry his own home state in the 2000 Election. And in this war the end (e.g., rationalized lies) justifies any means. They are now the Fifth Column and need to be dealt with as such.
But we haven’t, and we won’t. And that’s how we’ll get sucked into the same 70 year nightmare the Russian people endured, and others are now enduring.
So yeah, let’s all just sit around waiting for schmucks like Stein and ilk to do their ‘explaining’ and offer their ‘apologies’. Which – as history has proved – few will ever hear if/when they’re forthcoming.
And while we’re waiting, if someone wouldn’t mind passing the marshmallows…
