It's just like World War II, only Bush is more like Ike than FDR
Oy, the dizziness brought on by the spinning and more spinning.
As I mentioned earlier,
Glenn Reynolds is leading the charge against war coverage, urging the media to look more deeply into new plumbing facilities while letting the ambushes slide. One of his pals at the New York Post took up the banner and immediately started
spinning furiously, if you can picture someone spinning around while grasping a big banner. Here's my favorite part of it:
When NBC anchor Tom Brokaw went to Iraq, it was as if he was visiting a different country than that any other TV journalist had reported from, because he left Baghdad and many of his reports actually had an optimistic tone.
Why? Perhaps because Brokaw has chronicled the Greatest Generation and World War II, a time of patience instead of attention deficit disorder and a demand for overnight success. Nowadays, one can imagine critics instantly howling for Dwight D. Eisenhower's head over the deaths on D-Day.
Can one really imagine that? Ike taking heat for invading Hitler's fortress Europe? I can't. I don't think the writer, Deborah Orin, can either.
The idea here is to repeat an old Bush spin point, namely "Saddam equals Hitler." It was ridiculous back then, when the WMD question was up in the air, and it's ludicrous now. If we were to put this in a folder, we could title the folder "aching to justify."
