This is not going to be a long entry. But I just had to quote today's post from Glenn Greenwald. It's another one of his brilliant daily musings on our pathetic national media.
So here's the smirking Anne Kornblut, political reporter for The Washington Post on Tuesday's Hardball, discussing Democrats' plans for troop withdrawal:
ANNE KORNBLUT, "THE WASHINGTON POST": It remains, especially in Democratic crowds, the number-one issue. There is no applause line that gets a bigger response when you're out with Senator Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, than when they say the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to start ending this war in Iraq.
Republican crowds are a little different. They still want to be supporting the troops.
Yep, surprise. Seems that Kornblut's analytical skills amount to nothing more than regurgitated GOP talking points.
She's so deep in GOP bullshit that she can't even recognize the nonsense that is coming out of her own mouth.
Greenwald:
Why don't Democrats "still want to be supporting the troops"? The opposite of favoring withdrawal is "supporting the troops." The main difference on Iraq between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats want to end the war while Republicans "still want to be supporting the troops."
This is the "analysis" from the Washington Post's political reporter, until recently of the New York Times. Beltway reporters spend so much time speaking with government officials and political operatives that they actually see and understand the world through the spectrum of the simplistic, meaningless political slogans they are constantly fed.
Indeed, how many of the Beltway Heathers actually think that the opposite of "ending the war" is "supporting the troops"?