Dem-Spin Losing Its Grip
The tone of this morning's LA Times article on the bin Laden tape was gloomy, with a permiating theme that the tape favored Bush. Still, the Times gave the Dems plenty of room to spin the bin Laden tape, but there was no traction. Watch out for flying gravel; here comes the spin. First, Kerry senior strategist Joe Lockhart:
"It's offensive and shameful for this president to play politics the way he did today with this issue."
That'll work! No one's noticed that Kerry & Crew have been playing politics with our service personnel in harms way since the start of the campaign.
Here's what the candidate himself had to say:
"I regret that when George Bush had the opportunity in Afghanistan and Tora Bora, he didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden," Kerry said in a satellite interview with the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee. Later, ... in West Palm Beach, Fla., Kerry [said], "Let me just make it clear crystal clear.... As Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists."
We'll paraphrase that as, "We're absolutely united ... but the President is inept." Or am I too harsh? Maybe a better paraphrase would be, "We're absolutely united and forget the fact that everything I've said about Tora Bora is divisive and has been shown to be untrue, in the spirit if unity, I'm going to say it again."
And finally:
"My own personal view is that this is at least going to be a wash, and possibly helpful to Sen. Kerry," said Michael Greenberger, the director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland."It falls within his thesis that we are bogged down in Iraq and we are fighting the wrong enemy, and here is this person taking full credit for 9/11, being videotaped and quite safe from any danger."
Greenberger is spinning in a vacuum. Weren't the American people focused all week on the massive weapons caches in Iraq? Obviously, "the wrong enemy" isn't going to play this week like it played two weeks ago. And as for "here is this person taking full credit for 9/11" -- is if we didn't know it was bin Laden! Has Greenberger been camped out with Moore, Daschle, Dean and the other loonies, thinking it was Bush earlier? That'll convince the masses.
"It's offensive and shameful for this president to play politics the way he did today with this issue."
That'll work! No one's noticed that Kerry & Crew have been playing politics with our service personnel in harms way since the start of the campaign.
Here's what the candidate himself had to say:
"I regret that when George Bush had the opportunity in Afghanistan and Tora Bora, he didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden," Kerry said in a satellite interview with the ABC affiliate in Milwaukee. Later, ... in West Palm Beach, Fla., Kerry [said], "Let me just make it clear crystal clear.... As Americans, we are absolutely united in our determination to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and the terrorists."
We'll paraphrase that as, "We're absolutely united ... but the President is inept." Or am I too harsh? Maybe a better paraphrase would be, "We're absolutely united and forget the fact that everything I've said about Tora Bora is divisive and has been shown to be untrue, in the spirit if unity, I'm going to say it again."
And finally:
"My own personal view is that this is at least going to be a wash, and possibly helpful to Sen. Kerry," said Michael Greenberger, the director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland."It falls within his thesis that we are bogged down in Iraq and we are fighting the wrong enemy, and here is this person taking full credit for 9/11, being videotaped and quite safe from any danger."
Greenberger is spinning in a vacuum. Weren't the American people focused all week on the massive weapons caches in Iraq? Obviously, "the wrong enemy" isn't going to play this week like it played two weeks ago. And as for "here is this person taking full credit for 9/11" -- is if we didn't know it was bin Laden! Has Greenberger been camped out with Moore, Daschle, Dean and the other loonies, thinking it was Bush earlier? That'll convince the masses.
posted by Laer at 11:02 AM
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