Friday, November 11, 2005
The President's Veteran's Day speech is here.
Michelle Malkin has my feelings down here:
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.