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2005-08-12 Fifth Column

WaPo Changes Direction: Sez Bush is Confused

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Posted by Bobby 2005-08-12 07:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He might be confused. Then again, he might just like fucking with the media's heads.

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-12 08:39|| 2005-08-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 tu, another grand, evil, Rovian plot? Personally, I think it's that the MSM (especially inside the beltway) don't understand what I call "Plain English." You know, the kind where you do what you say you're gonna do, come he!! or high-water! And, usually when the MSM asks "When are we gonna leave," they usually mean the whole kit & kaboodle, not just a 30k troop drawdown. But, who am I to question the WaPo's intentions...not like I'm a big city news editor who's already pointed out 3-4 errors in the snips above alone, eh?

Posted by BA 2005-08-12 09:12|| 2005-08-12 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 You'd think in year 5 the Big Media would start to catch on to that whole "say what you mean, mean what you say" thing.

Posted by eLarson 2005-08-12 12:21|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-08-12 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 somehow the admins also left Bill Kristol and the Weekly Standard confused as well. Amazing the places liberal MSM memes show up.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-08-12 14:19|| 2005-08-12 14:19|| Front Page Top

#5 That's not surprising, lh.

Posted by Pappy 2005-08-12 16:21|| 2005-08-12 16:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The fundamental issue is the press is stupid and ignorant.

They are stupid in that they expect there to be one hard and fast solution and date that you can nail to the floor now, and ignore any and all changes afterward.

They are ignorant in that they don't realize its the job of a good military leader to have plans for contingencies - all the possible ones, and then deveop the plans further for the probable ones, and then for the highest 1-3 probabilities (and the branches they can evolve into), you develop a plan in detail. Then you shape the battlefield, and implement the plan, with the contengencies in the back pocket.

Why doesnt the press understnad this? Its plain common sense. Businesses practice it all the time. Doctors do it with treatment of serious chronic illnesses. Investors do it if they are smart.

I guess journalists are the dregs of university graduates in terms of reasoning capability and though cpacity.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-08-12 22:07|| 2005-08-12 22:07|| Front Page Top

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