News Speak: Into the Memory Hole

Rush and Snow Talk Nonsense

Yesterday on his talk show, Rush Limbaugh asserted: "the Democrats have lost all white voters." This may come as a surprise to those white Democrats out there who apparently don't exist anymore in Rush's perspective of the world. Is it any wonder that he was discussing this with Tony Snow, press secretary for President Bush, in Pensacola?

Snow must have missed or just completely ignored the Woman's National Democratic Club or the Democratic Women for Change.
With no one but his carefully-screened listeners to oppose his claims, Rush also informed Snow: "Everybody is so proud to have you where you are." Speak for yourself, Rush. Some of us, including myself, aren't particularly happy to have someone like Snow telling the American people what is going on from a completely partisan point of view. I don't think Snow which is up after the nonpartisan group Thinkprogress.org provided a list of excerpts credited to Snow that calls Bush "impotent" and an "embarrassment."
However, Snow commented later in the interview:

I think people are starting to connect the dots because they see, even though
it's been tough work and it's required a lot of patience, that, hey, wait a
minute, what the president's talking about, A, makes common sense, and B, is
working.

So our impotent embarrassment of a President has common sense and his plan is working? Please, Mr. Snow, have you been following the war? Have you been hearing the death tolls? And for what have our brave soldiers fought? The overthrow of Saddam? London-based publication Ekklesia reports:

Astonishing new on-the-ground research published in today’s edition of The
Lancet by a US university team suggests that an estimated 655,000 Iraqis may
have died since the 2003 US-led invasion – people who would otherwise be alive today.

According to an Associated Press piece in the Houston Chronicle: "As of Monday, Nov. 6, 2006, at least 2,836 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003." Tell, Mr. Snow, was the imprisonment of Saddam worth those 2,836 deaths? Does this sound like a plan that is working? Iraq is an inch away from civil war. How is that an improvement? Mr. Snow, please reevaluate the war in Iraq before you make these self-supportive claims. And you, Mr. President, maybe if you had actually served in a war, you wouldn't be so quick to start another one to ship out other people's children (obviously, not your own, which are too busy making fools of themselves.)

For the full transcript of the Rush/Snow interview, click here.

posted by Lynette @ 9:49 AM