this could be heaven right here on earth
Death and carnage?
Global catastrophe? AIDS?
Details, sweetie, just details (other, non-Foxy stupidity via the links) :
On Fox News Channel's Special Report (7/7/05), Jeff Birnbaum seemed hopeful that the attacks would mean a rise in the polls for George W. Bush:
"I think that there has been a plunging poll rating for Bush's policies in Iraq and even for the president's job performance overall, in part because the American people forgot that there really is a war on terror, or they didn't believe Bush's oft-repeated reminders from the stump that, in fact, we were in war and we had to act that way. I think this will--it takes away all of the credibility problems that the president has been having. And popular support, I think, will begin to rise for him again."
Birnbaum's co-panelist, Bill Sammon of the Washington Times, agreed: "I think the entire conversation changes now. You know, we were talking about Gitmo and whether the prisoners had sufficient comforts.... That debate is obliterated. And now we're back to, guess what? Good and evil. I mean, this is what Tony Blair, and Jack Straw, and all these people were talking about. They're talking about using words like wicked and evil, the words that Bush was mocked for using by his detractors when 9/11 happened. But that's where the conversation's back to. We're not talking about global warming. We're not talking about Gitmo. We're back to the basics. We are at war."
Oddly, Birnbaum's response to that was to predict a dip in partisanship: "I think, in fact, partisanship, at least in the short run, will be diminished." That would be true if one were defining partisanship merely as criticism of Bush, since praising Bush and criticizing his "detractors" is apparently not partisan. Fox panelist Fred Barnes made that point even clearer by noting an exception to the non-partisan trend: "Not for Jane Harman," Barnes interjected-- referring to the Democratic Congresswoman who had suggested that the war in Iraq was not making the U.S. or its allies safer.
If these guys were at all literate or knew how to use the Internet, they might just be dangerous.
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