Two Steps Back
6/22/2005
Following my last post, which was a fresh reaction to some headlines I saw being replicated across several newspapers, I read this post by another blogger Grand Moff Texan. Specifically:
This is How You Do It (excerpt)
What should he have done? If Durbin had had either brains or guts, he would have called a press conference on day one and showed the changing headlines at the ashington Times. With a smile. He would have rolled tape and showed Limbaugh lipping his quote. With a laugh. He would have played back Brit Hume and the rest loating over how "this isn't going to go away," even though they CLAIM that the words are hurting our troops. He would have laid the seriousness of torture alongside the juvenile pranks of the amoral and lying right. Instead, Durbin scored an own goal.
Makes sense, though I think perhaps now we should get past tearing down Senator Durbin. It's not improving the situation, especially considering the underwhelming support for Durbin's initial testicular fortitude by other Democratic Senators. They just let the Republican spin machine chop him to bits, feeding on a weakness that a Senator should not have (one that reminds me of the many times Kerry DIDN'T rebut when the same evil spin machine was tearing him to bits), which is to buckle under pressure and give the dogs exactly what they want to hear. And then they start turning inward, and nobody notices the Truth with a capitol T whizzing by their heads and off into the fog of war while they all take turns gnawing on the brittle remains.
Of course, through all this opining and discovering of a new blog, I've got to add Grand Moff Texan to the blogroll. Anybody that can come up with the following classic line deserves to be read at least once a week:
Heh. I couldn't have said that better myself!
posted by Edward Svengali @ Wednesday, June 22, 2005,
