After reading the latest posts by both Michelle Malkin and Juan Cole, it became apparent what issues are hot on the minds of both conservative and liberal political thinkers. For the Democrats of this nation, like Cole, Bush’s address this week is of high priority. Basically, Cole called our President a liar when he talked about what Cole is calling the “Abu Zubayda myth”—a story Bush is telling about the capture of a terrorist just months after September 11 who Bush labeled as a close ally to Osama Bin Laden. He said that this man helped us capture another Al-Qaeda leader, but Cole is saying that the government had the information they used to capture this man an entire month before 9/11. So, is our President throwing out lies to distract the public from something? Cole says yes.
For Republicans like Michelle Malkin, there was a clear target this week—Walt Disney. ABC’s decision to cut an allegedly anti-Clinton, anti-Democrat sequence out of its made-for-tv special, “Path to 9/11” was the topic of her blog. Malkin called the left-wing supporters “bullies and thugs” who have been emboldened by their victory over ABC in this case. Apparently, our right to protest and petition for something we believe in automatically creates bullies. But anyhow, I’m not sure that Malkin’s blog of the week speaks of the most relevant news today. Okay, so we know that Disney is evil, and now they are giving into the conniving left-wing protestors…blah-blah. We’ve heard all of this before, it’s getting a little old. And I’m still going to watch Beauty and the Beast because it is my favorite movie of all time and that will never change.
And yes, I know that targeting Bush is getting quite as old as the way conservatives berate the most magical corporation on earth, but at least democrats seem to have some weight and value behind their arguments.
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