The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Brit Hume Eviscerates John Murtha
Brit Hume is a newscaster's newscaster: even on his nightly Special Report with Brit Hume, he has an authoratative stage presence that reminds one of great anchors of the past. And, while Hume's ideology comes from the center-right (unlike most TV news personalities)--he normally tries to stay above the fray, even when chairing his weekday discussion panel.
But on Sundays the Fox anchor is free to weigh in with his own opinion; and today, when the Fox News Sunday panel discussed the disgraceful John Murtha's "plan" for Iraq, Hume could not hold back: he let Murtha have it with both barrels. Beautiful.
As an aside--the following needs to be said, and now is as good a time as any: if most Democrats had run last fall based on the platform Murtha is now advocating, I believe the Republicans would have won in a filibuster-proof landslide of epic proportions. The fact that instead the Dems ran a much more moderate campaign in which Nancy Pelosi, Murtha, Rangel, et. al. were relegated to the sidelines--all so that the party would "appear" more conservative on the war--is a clear indication that savvy Democrats know that the center in America supports this war.
Thus--if Murtha/Rangel/Pelosi get their way and make it impossible for the US to achieve victory in Iraq/Iran--then, to the electorate, the Democrats' entire campaign strategy will be seen to have been based on a fraud and a lie. Perhaps I am being optimistic--but in a democracy, you have to hope that most people who care enough to vote are paying attention, and trust that they do not like it at all when they are fooled by their politicians into believing they support "the troops", when indeed they trumpet it loudly from the hilltops every time an American soldier, sailor, or airman is killed.
But it is a long way to the next election. And--because the American people were fooled so badly last year--it is just going to get uglier from here... We are going to have to dig in and fight like Travis at the Alamo to try and save this country and the world from a looming catastrophe. Welcome to December, 1776: we need to cross the Deleware.
But on Sundays the Fox anchor is free to weigh in with his own opinion; and today, when the Fox News Sunday panel discussed the disgraceful John Murtha's "plan" for Iraq, Hume could not hold back: he let Murtha have it with both barrels. Beautiful.
As an aside--the following needs to be said, and now is as good a time as any: if most Democrats had run last fall based on the platform Murtha is now advocating, I believe the Republicans would have won in a filibuster-proof landslide of epic proportions. The fact that instead the Dems ran a much more moderate campaign in which Nancy Pelosi, Murtha, Rangel, et. al. were relegated to the sidelines--all so that the party would "appear" more conservative on the war--is a clear indication that savvy Democrats know that the center in America supports this war.
Thus--if Murtha/Rangel/Pelosi get their way and make it impossible for the US to achieve victory in Iraq/Iran--then, to the electorate, the Democrats' entire campaign strategy will be seen to have been based on a fraud and a lie. Perhaps I am being optimistic--but in a democracy, you have to hope that most people who care enough to vote are paying attention, and trust that they do not like it at all when they are fooled by their politicians into believing they support "the troops", when indeed they trumpet it loudly from the hilltops every time an American soldier, sailor, or airman is killed.
But it is a long way to the next election. And--because the American people were fooled so badly last year--it is just going to get uglier from here... We are going to have to dig in and fight like Travis at the Alamo to try and save this country and the world from a looming catastrophe. Welcome to December, 1776: we need to cross the Deleware.
Labels: Democrat Sabotage, Iraq, Media War, US Politics
