tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post116194745803122188..comments2023-11-03T03:17:27.053-05:00Comments on NPR Check: Do THE MathMytwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04307620268159811668noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-1161964221286602742006-10-27T10:50:00.000-05:002006-10-27T10:50:00.000-05:00Mara Liasson's chipmunk-cheeked proclamations are ...Mara Liasson's chipmunk-cheeked proclamations are almost as bad as Cokie Roberts' watery 'well...we'll just have to wait and see...' wit and wisdom. I couldn't stand Mara's motor-mouthing all through the Clinton years, and even now, she's just as insulting, even though we aren't inflicted with her dreary presence nearly as often. She represents the very worst of NPR's 'we've got this baby all figured out' attitude.Porter Melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473990960543501439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27644679.post-1161956090808429492006-10-27T08:34:00.000-05:002006-10-27T08:34:00.000-05:00Liasson is such a FOX shill. There should be no d...Liasson is such a FOX shill. There should be no doubt that that's her *real* job. However, it was gratifying to hear the soundbite of that honery old (former Republican voting) Granny: "Bush wants his war...he can send his own family." That jibes exactly with what <A HREF="http://www.juancole.com" REL="nofollow">Juan Cole</A> said today:<BR/><BR/><I>The only explanation of which I can think for the general collapse of this pillar of War party is that the political contests in mid-Atlantic and Southern states are generating television ads, candidate appearances and debates that highlight the catastrophe that is Iraq--and it is getting through to the church-goers at long last. <BR/><BR/>Mostly political discourse in the United States is dictated by the ruling party in Washington, and the mass media and press are most often nervous about getting out in front of the elected officials. But in an election season, the press is suddenly allowed to cover at least a narrow range of dissident views intensively-- that is, the views of political opponents of the incumbents. Since the vast majority of incumbents in the mid-Atlantic and Southern states are Republicans, the upshot is that a Democrat point of view is suddenly getting aired and reported on. And the Dems are mostly pretty critical of Bush's Iraq War.<BR/><BR/>You have to wonder, as well, if the Foley scandal has, so to speak, opened the evangelicals' ears to criticisms of the Republican Party status quo more generally, allowing the bad news about Iraq to sink in. I suggest it only because the story broke around the time that their approval for the Iraq War began to plummet.</I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com