Today, they’re lining up behind Obama and the fruits of his “gutsy” decision to sign off on a raid on bin Laden’s fancy fortified hut. But it wasn’t always that way. In fact, when a Republican was in office, they seemed more concerned in hectoring him to giving up on the very programs that led to Osama bin Laden’s eventual death, trying every tack from citing Geneva Conventions and Amnesty international, to pretending they knew more about the legality of the enhanced interrogation program than those who put it together.
Faux moral posturing. Politicized preening. There’s simply no other way to explain the dramatic change in narrative emphasis now that a “progressive” is in office.
Posted just in case David Gregory and Matt Lauer have forgotten what it’s like to press government officials.
No need to thank me, fellas. I’m a giver.
They are shameless.
You need a conscience to be shameless, JD.
[…] are the same ones they are hailing today. Indeed, our pal Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom has a set of clips posted which illustrate how the Make-Believe-Media used to engage in moral posturing,…, which they are suddenly very quiet about in the wake of Sunday’s announcement. What a […]
Another example of the 4th estate acting as a 5th column…
This is how democracy works!
Gregory: “Mr. President, if a black dog were to get hold of an egret…?”
Like defunding Medicare, it’s ok if the good guys do it.
And yet Bush congratulates and then goes back to his life. Happy in the knowledge that his country has been served a little justice.
Conversely, Obama goes back to his life. Miserable in the knowledge that the economy doesn’t respond to “the gutsiest decision ever made by a president in this country’s history.”
Bush won’t defend. He looks in the mirror and he see’s a man of character.
We are Obama’s mirror, so he will constantly shout “What do you want from me? How do I get more applause?”
They are way beyond being genuinely surprised when guys like Bernie Goldberg called them out. It is not just bias, they intentionally lie now.
From Taranto’s WSJ blog today:
?”The raid was the culmination of years of painstaking intelligence work, including the interrogation of C.I.A. detainees in secret prisons in Eastern Europe, where sometimes what was not said was as useful as what was.”–news story, New York Times, May 3
?”There is no evidence that good intelligence like this was the result of secret detentions or abuse and torture. Everything suggests the opposite.”–editorial, New York Times, May 3
I posted this back a few threads, but it seems to belong here.
The ‘official narrative’ is gonna have some funky footnotes.
How does one say bitch slapped! He schooled those little boys and made them look silly in the process. Matt Lauer didnt know what to do and it would not surpise me if they had to edit out the sound of his bum hole puckering at that slap down.
The depths of hypocrisy of the reactiona left never fail to astonish.
The New York Times: all the news that’s fit to correct.
Shameless, indeed.
Unless we are willing to admit that the Copperheads are fundamentally dishonest, conservatives in this country will continue to lose in the political arena. They can’t be trusted. Period.
Fen’s Law: “The left doesn’t actually believe in any of the things they lecture the rest of us about.”*
*From commenter Fen at Ann Althouse.