November 06, 2005 -- "It started with (hurricane) Katrina," he said to the early morning NBC anchor.  Then, according to Tim, there were the problems with the CIA agent leak.  Added to the truthfulness problems about WMD which Bush used to justify our attack on Iraq, it explains why the Bush White House is in trouble, with job disapproval/trust ratings in the negative sixty percent range!

Before he left office -- in fact, if memory serves, on the day he was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives -- Bill Clinton sent missles to bomb Baghdad.  Of late, those who recall that sort of thing have been researching poltical speech by famous liberals from Clinton to Kerry, and have located literally dozens of examples of claims by Democrats that Hussein was working on weapons of mass destruction.  The irony here is that in the speech where Bush made that claim, he didn't.  What he actually said was that he couldn't wait until the possibility became a virtual near-term certainty. We had, he said, to attack before the risk became a reality.  Before, not after. 

This means that people calling him a liar, today, prior to his election to the presidency said the things they are now castigating him for saying.  The final irony is that in actuality he did not say them.

So, that's one.  Russert mentioned the hurricane, Katrina.  The botch job there was by the local Democrat polilticians, and the very big, old line media which to this day is still hammering Bush about it. 

This pack of lies about Bush is staggering when you consider the early press speculation about casualties, which were many multiples higher than the actual results.  In any event, it is the job of local officials, not federal officials, to evacuate people, and both Louisiana senator, Mary Landriew and New Orleans mayor Nagin  botched the job.  You saw the hundreds of school busses standing unused in the floodwaters.  

And the reports about the mass deaths, beatings and rapes in emergency housing facilities were totally exaggerated.  If there actually was a single one, we can attribute it to the half of the New Orleans police force which was videotaped watching looters and doing nothing about it, or the half of that bunch who simply took off and left the people to fend for themselves. 

Even the broken levee, we have since discovered, is the result of local misuse of federal funds sent to that city to be used for the raising of that very protective barrier.

Now to the more recently trumpeted item, the CIA agent "leak?"

Did any of these people hear the Special Prosecutor say that the charges filed against Cheney aide, Scooter Libby, had nothing to do with the outing of a covert CIA agent?  The statement was made on national television, to both broadcast and cable television cameras, and to the dozens of other old media reporters who attended that event.  

If the public no longer trusts Bush because of a crime that didn't happen, I suppose we are on the downside of America.  The decline has begun.  Public education has finally succeeded in producing a populace that cannot recognize its own surroundings.  I kind of doubt all that, though. We do have a nation with a lot of seemingly dense citizens, these days.  I must admit that.  But, every election since 2000 has clearly indicated that anywhere from a small to a quite secure majority are aware that the line fed to them by their major information sources is so much baloney.

Russert matters because media is the key

It is for that reason that I don't believe any of these polls of late.  The polls that matter (elections and actual reader numbers) tell a different story. Since, as outlined above, everything the old line media has been saying for years is pure anti-Bush drivel, while I can see where some weak minds could be affected by the current propaganda barrage, I just don't buy the Big Scenario: The conservative movement in America has run its course, and is done for. 

Long experience at this tells me to distrust the misinformationalists.  

They paint partisan lies as a daily matter of course.  They have an obvious motive to fabricate a Bush disaster.  There is a class of people they now want to eliminate.  Although they couldn't even tell you my name, they must get rid of us.  Me, the many invisible ones like me, and our partners in truth, the visible ones -- the Limbaughs, the Humes, the Coulters and the Medveds. My five year old small market ezine, the bloggers, talk radio, a few large print publications, FOX -- all have to go, because they daily tell a verifiable, different story than the one told by the establishment press.  If the Dems can regain congress and the White House, any lie told to accomplish that  is well worth it.  From those perches of real power, government can be used to squash the alternative press.

How, with the First Amendment and all, could they do that, you ask?  They could destroy conservative talk radio overnight by bringing back the "Fair Practices" rule.  What they could do to the internet if they once more held the reins of power -- well, if it happens, you will be astonished at the destruction.

The feral quality of the mainstream media attacks these days suggests all this to me.  They are no longer ignoring Free Republic and Lucianne dot com.  No longer ignoring internet publications like the one I and a few friends put out.  They have seen other polls.  Polls about themselves.  Polls we shall never see.  They have seen their audience numbers and print circulation decline precipitously.  And, they have noticed the election results.

2006 is going to be interesting, folks.  The barrage of big media lies referenced above will reach the nuclear level, I think.  It's what old Saddam would call "the mother of all elections" that is coming next fall.

Perhaps it is the loss of the Supreme Court that has tipped them over the edge.  They were so used to having control of everything that they never saw it coming.  Whatever the reason, the level of their anger is a clear indication of the depth of their fear.

Russert, the unimpeachable, has joined their ranks.  I saw him do it on an NBC news segment before the sun came up in the far west, today.  If he wasn't before, he is part of it, now.  He has chosen sides in this battle between truth and lies, and his selection is the latter.

A nation is up for grabs, and the fight date is 2006.  Somebody is going to win by a knockout.

(LL)

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