Click here for the complete CBS poll results. Ignore CBS’s headline spin — after all, these are the folks who pay to keep Dan Rather in dress socks.
So. Did Condi Rice’s testimony help the Bushies? We report, you decide.
“What they knew before 9/11: Is the Bush Administration…?”
Patience, my son. The fallout from the PDB has only begun. (Ooh, a short rap.)
For example, Condi testified that the document contained no new information, but it now appears that one of the PDB’s bullet points (yeah, not a silver bullet, but still…) warned, based upon May 2001 intelligence reports, that bin Laden operatives were attempting to cross from Canada into the US with explosives. To be sure, no specifics as to target, time, place, but something tells me that if they’d’ve had that information they’d still have fucked it up. Look at Iraq.
Plus, I don’t consider one-fifth of the country believing that they’ve told the whole truth as constituting a ringing endorsement. But then, with GWB, low expectations render even calamity as somehow the norm.
Hey, I’ve a new tag for all you Bush apologists: Soft Bigots.
The relevant question here is “did the Bush Administration do all it could to prevent 9/11?”
A ten point rise in “yes” and a ten point decrease in “no” over one week seems pretty significant to me.
Tom
(a uuuggee Soft Bigot)
Bob Graham has come out and said that the Aug 6 PDB contained no new information—which is why Ben Veniste wanted only the title read, and didn’t want Rice to get into the specifics of content. She talked right over him.
When the memo is released, Ben Veniste’s partisan posturing will be shown for what it was. Similarly, I hear the White House is also working to declassify the memo that the NSC sent to the FBI about airline security. The FBI has been working to keep that memo out of circulation, but I suspect that once it’s released, Gorelick will be eating her words, too.
Don’t know whether Dr. Rice’s testimony helped the President, but God knows the panel sure helped Dick Clarke’s retirement fund.
Sony pictures has picked up the movie rights to “Against All Enemies.” (Does this sound like a treacly love triangle between James Woods, Rachel Ward and Jeff Bridges with a Phil Collins soaked soundtrack? No wait…that was another title, another decade.)
Is there an actor in Hollywood that can recreate the tube of Cream o’Wheat Clarke look?
Or will they eschew physical shortcomings and dumb it down to wretched made-for-TV standards: Alan Alda as Bob Kerrey, Sam Waterston as Richard Ben Veniste, Susan Sarandon as Leslie Stahl, Mike Farrell as Joe Biden, Chad Lowe as Chris Matthews, Mel Gibson as George W. Bush, Tim Robbins as Dick Clarke…executive producer Barbra Streisand, soundtrack Sheryl Crow.
But how would they portay National Security Advisor Rice? Glamorous Halle Berry casting or dyked-up, darque-tanned Charlize Theron?