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Friday, November 11, 2005

The President's Veteran's Day speech is here.

Michelle Malkin has my feelings down here:

My question: What took him so long? He could have made this speech while Sheehan was gaining traction outside his Crawford, Tx. ranch this summer with her "Bush lied!" brigades. He could have made this speech while the anti-war movement and the media were busy politicizing the "2000 dead" milestone in the most macabre and dishonest way. He could have made this speech as Harry Reid was jumping up and down like Rumpelstiltskin behind the Senate chamber's locked doors.

But he didn't.

Better late than never. I hope this is a sign of renewed intestinal fortitude. The GOP needs it.

Ayup.

I subscribe to CNN alerts, so every day I get multiple emails based on keyword -- "Iraq" being one of them. For months I've been getting emails on story after story contributing to the "Bush lied" meme -- Stuff like (making these up), 'Ex-official says He Warned no WMD,' or 'Leaked Documents Show CIA Warned of Chaos.' Today, for instance, there's this: Prewar CIA report doubted claim that al Qaeda sought WMD in Iraq. Never, ever, ever have I seen, 'Documents Back Administration's Claims on Terrorists,' or 'Transcript throws doubt on Reid and Kennedy's claims.'

In other words, the press is never doing to do it for them. The administration needs to force them to by going out and making noise -- lots of noise. It still may not help, but they have been very late.

Update: Callimachus analyses the coverage of the speech and comes out with some predictable results.

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