I can't get enough of it!
One of the really amazing things is how Bush still won in spite of all the efforts of the Main Stream Media, which gave Kerry the most positive, unquestioning coverage of any candidate ever.
It was said by Evan Thomas of Newsweek that the media bias would be worth 15 points for Kerry; that is perhaps an exaggeration, but it must have been at least 5-10.
It is too tedious to link to all the obvious examples, but they include the obviously forged CBS memos, the internal ABC News memo to put extra scrutiny on Bush and give Kerry a pass, the unwillingness to call Ohio for Bush at the direct behest of the Kerry campaign, and the admission of its own ombudsman that the New York Times is slanted.
And that in spite of the "527" organizations with their millions in extra-campaign funding they wielded, backed by deep pockets like billionaire George Soros.
Look at the top individual donors to 527 organizations! The top 4 and biggest by far all gave to left-wing groups.
Of the top 10 individual donors, $71 million went to Democrat-favoring groups and only $22 million to Republican groups.
Looking at the major "independent" groups, I count only about $55 million spent by pro-Bush groups but a whopping $146 by anti-Bush groups! (counting only players spending $5 million or more)
Of the Republican groups, the club for Growth accounted for $12 million, and the dreaded Swift Vets for Truth spent $14 million.
A lot, huh? Well MoveOn.org wielded $20 million against Bush, the Media Fund $47 million, and Americans Coming Together an amazing $55 million on behalf of the Democrats.
Even the Sierra Club came up with $8 million in negative Bush ads!
In this light, the Bush victory is even more crushing.
And the resilience of our representative Republic all the more astonishing.
With all the money, and all the manufactured opinion, and a difficult war, the Democrats still couldn't win without real ideas.
Substance matters.
I suppose you could say that "you can't fool all the people all the time", to coin a phrase.
It was like a real-life Mr. Smith!
Too many of the Left are claiming voters must then just be plain ignorant. But in fact they are Wise.
As the great honest lefty Christopher Hitchens puts it:
"Anybody But Bush"--and this from those who decry simple-mindedness--is now the only glue binding the radical left to the Democratic Party right. The amazing thing is the literalness with which the mantra is chanted. Anybody? Including Muqtada al-Sadr? The chilling answer is, quite often, yes. This is nihilism. Actually, it's nihilism at best. If it isn't treason to the country--let us by all means not go there--it is certainly treason to the principles of the left.In another article makes the observation:
One of the editors of this magazine asked me if I would also say something about my personal evolution. I took him to mean: How do you like your new right-wing friends? In the space I have, I can only return the question. I prefer them to Pat Buchanan and Vladimir Putin and the cretinized British Conservative Party, or to the degraded, mendacious populism of Michael Moore, who compares the psychopathic murderers of Iraqis to the Minutemen. I am glad to have seen the day when a British Tory leader is repudiated by the White House. An irony of history, in the positive sense, is when Republicans are willing to risk a dangerous confrontation with an untenable and indefensible status quo. I am proud of what little I have done to forward this revolutionary cause. In Kabul recently, I interviewed Dr. Masuda Jalal, a brave Afghan physician who was now able to run for the presidency. I asked her about her support for the intervention in Iraq. "For us," she said, "the battle against terrorism and against dictatorship are the same thing." I dare you to snicker at simple-mindedness like that.
Only one faction in American politics has found itself able to make excuses for the kind of religious fanaticism that immediately menaces us in the here and now. And that faction, I am sorry and furious to say, is the left. From the first day of the immolation of the World Trade Center, right down to the present moment, a gallery of pseudointellectuals has been willing to represent the worst face of Islam as the voice of the oppressed. How can these people bear to reread their own propaganda?How indeed?
