Friday, August 19, 2005
Nothing Remains To Be Said
Sometimes, someone does it so well all you can do is link, this time to Mark Steyn.
Well, maybe I should link to this deadnuts-on appraisal from Gadfly's Muse, which adds a Christian perspective to Steyn's pitch perfect politcal take.
I get many emails from soldiers in Iraq, and they sound a lot more grown-up than most Ivy League professors and certainly than Maureen Dowd, who writes as if she?s auditioning for a minor supporting role in Sex and the City. The infantilisation of the military promoted by the Left is deeply insulting to America?s warriors but it suits the anti-war crowd?s purposes. It enables them to drone ceaselessly that ?of course? they ?support our troops?, because they want to stop these poor confused moppets from being exploited by the Bush war machine.Those two paragraphs are just a little bit of Mark's near perfect take on the current media frenzy in Crawford.
So, when Cindy Sheehan came into view, Bush-disparagers from Washington to Hollywood cried ?Bingo!? ?Cindy Sheehan is my hero,? says Christine Lahti, former star of TV?s Chicago Hope. ?You can run, Bush, but you can?t hide. Her courage is waking up America.? Evidently it woke up motion-picture personality Viggo Mortensen, who flew to Crawford on a pilgrimage to Mrs Sheehan. For the press corps, it?s not exactly the Spielberg/Clinton summer summit in the Hamptons, but it?s as close as they?re going to get.
Well, maybe I should link to this deadnuts-on appraisal from Gadfly's Muse, which adds a Christian perspective to Steyn's pitch perfect politcal take.
