You Might Have Missed ThisOne of the more curious beliefs among the Left is that the press has been overly deferential towards President Chimpy Shrub McHitler. Naomi Wolf (the woman who recommended Al Gore wear earthtones)
articulates this in the Guardian today:
In the US comic strip, Peanuts, there is a little boy who is always followed by a cloud of dust. Wherever he goes, his cloud follows him. George Bush can't shake his personal cloud. The until recently eerily untouchable president has now lost his mojo. The man to whom the entire US press corps has been on its knees for four years is finally in the doghouse.When you press them for examples of how the press has been overly friendly to President Bush, they usually cite the runup to the war, when the press accepted the administration's claims of WMD. Of course, the problem is that almost everybody accepted that Saddam has or was diligently pursuing the acquisition of WMD, so it seems a bit hard to blame the press.
But will this shift in the wind affect US relations with the larger world community? I think it could, but not, again, because our role at the UN will change or because we will have an awakening about our pathetic behaviour in relation to Kyoto. The shift in foreign relations will be an outcome of ordinary human shame. We were willing to be held in contempt by those effeminate Frogs - by "old Europe" - when we were intoxicated with ourselves: our isolationism made that easy. But now we are actually ashamed of ourselves at home, we can't bear international contempt in the same way. Now it hurts.Read it all, and remember that Gore was paying this woman $15,000 a month to give him advice.
