The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, June 12, 2005
War abroad, War at home too.
Dinocrat is right. There are two wars being fought. And I am not so sure that the war being fought here at home, i.e. the war against the leftist msm for the hearts and minds of the American people, is not the more critical of the two. Certainly it is equally critical:
Two wars are going on today. The first, in Iraq, is being won despite the best efforts of the MSM to demoralize the home front and paint victory as defeat.
The second war is against the demoralizing MSM itself (classic example via Powerline). It is a war of attrition, and the attrition is measured in the declining circulations of network news and elite broadsheets, and mirrored in the rock-bottom confidence that Americans have in the media, particularly versus the military.
So many ways to say it, the military besting the MSM in confidence 74% to 28%: a vast majority of Americans have confidence in the military, while a vast majority of Americans do not have confidence in the MSM; or, 3x as many Americans have confidence in the military as do in the media — you’d think the MSM would stop digging their own grave at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib — yeah, a rational person would think that (chart via Gallup).
President Bush has said that the Global War on Terror will be war unlike any other in American history. It will end without a peace treaty being signed, and without an enemy admitting formal defeat. We think it might be interesting to consider declaring victory, in one of our wars at least, when media confidence, currently at 28%, drops below 20%.
In the end, suicide bombers and suicide journalists principally participate in the destruction of their own causes.
Two wars are going on today. The first, in Iraq, is being won despite the best efforts of the MSM to demoralize the home front and paint victory as defeat.
The second war is against the demoralizing MSM itself (classic example via Powerline). It is a war of attrition, and the attrition is measured in the declining circulations of network news and elite broadsheets, and mirrored in the rock-bottom confidence that Americans have in the media, particularly versus the military.
So many ways to say it, the military besting the MSM in confidence 74% to 28%: a vast majority of Americans have confidence in the military, while a vast majority of Americans do not have confidence in the MSM; or, 3x as many Americans have confidence in the military as do in the media — you’d think the MSM would stop digging their own grave at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib — yeah, a rational person would think that (chart via Gallup).
President Bush has said that the Global War on Terror will be war unlike any other in American history. It will end without a peace treaty being signed, and without an enemy admitting formal defeat. We think it might be interesting to consider declaring victory, in one of our wars at least, when media confidence, currently at 28%, drops below 20%.
In the end, suicide bombers and suicide journalists principally participate in the destruction of their own causes.
