No Media Bias in post-Debate Reporting...
...NOT!
Pre-debate we are told over and over that Kerry is a polished debater since prep school, where he was so into it that he founded a debating society, that he is considered one of the best debaters in the Senate, and that Bush is unskilled and in for a whipping by Kerry.
The debate was 90 minutes of tedium with the only gaffe being Kerry's answer to the question on the use of preemptive force in the national interest. One would think that if the use of preemptive force in the national interest must first pass a "global test", then, by the time the global test is passed:
a.) it is most likely that the national interest (say...our interest in seeing that Iraq does not replace Afghanistan as the terrorists' base of global operations) will have been eviscerated by the global interests (maybe...France, Germany and U.N. officials skimming large amounts of Oil for Food money, therefore, being paid to ignore Iraq's evolution into the terrorists' base of global operations), which means that the national interest is lost in all likelihood, which is o.k. if you accept full well knowing that the terrorists have sworn to kill us and you are not willing to do anything about it; and
b.) the time and effort spent to gain global approval results in loss of all tactical surprise; a loss like that we are paying for now in Iraq.
Now we hear pundit after pundit after DNC hack after pundit telling us that, because we saw something that was near the pre-debate bloviation about a polished and comfortable guy being in there against a not as polished and less comfortable guy (great effort being made to stay away from the "global test" gaffe), Kerry won in some big way. He didn't. If anything Bush's unusual lower energy level and stick-to-it-tiveness on his central messages kept Bush from capitalizing on other Kerry gaffes and distortions.
...and the great Democrat response is to create a commercial of non-verbal facial expressions?! What up wit' dat?!! I suppose such a gambit would make sense if we were engaged in a race for fifth grade class president rather than for the leader of the free world...what's next? Are they following the President around with a microphone so they can create a Kerry radiospot of Chief Executive flatulence??!!!
Pre-debate we are told over and over that Kerry is a polished debater since prep school, where he was so into it that he founded a debating society, that he is considered one of the best debaters in the Senate, and that Bush is unskilled and in for a whipping by Kerry.
The debate was 90 minutes of tedium with the only gaffe being Kerry's answer to the question on the use of preemptive force in the national interest. One would think that if the use of preemptive force in the national interest must first pass a "global test", then, by the time the global test is passed:
a.) it is most likely that the national interest (say...our interest in seeing that Iraq does not replace Afghanistan as the terrorists' base of global operations) will have been eviscerated by the global interests (maybe...France, Germany and U.N. officials skimming large amounts of Oil for Food money, therefore, being paid to ignore Iraq's evolution into the terrorists' base of global operations), which means that the national interest is lost in all likelihood, which is o.k. if you accept full well knowing that the terrorists have sworn to kill us and you are not willing to do anything about it; and
b.) the time and effort spent to gain global approval results in loss of all tactical surprise; a loss like that we are paying for now in Iraq.
Now we hear pundit after pundit after DNC hack after pundit telling us that, because we saw something that was near the pre-debate bloviation about a polished and comfortable guy being in there against a not as polished and less comfortable guy (great effort being made to stay away from the "global test" gaffe), Kerry won in some big way. He didn't. If anything Bush's unusual lower energy level and stick-to-it-tiveness on his central messages kept Bush from capitalizing on other Kerry gaffes and distortions.
...and the great Democrat response is to create a commercial of non-verbal facial expressions?! What up wit' dat?!! I suppose such a gambit would make sense if we were engaged in a race for fifth grade class president rather than for the leader of the free world...what's next? Are they following the President around with a microphone so they can create a Kerry radiospot of Chief Executive flatulence??!!!
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