WTF Is It Now?!?

Why does CNN hate America?
Heh. You can almost sense their growing panic as they start to realise that John Kerry actually has a chance of winning. And what it could mean to them if he does.

Even their WH mouthpiece senior political analcyst Bill 'cornhole' Schneider took time out from changing the batteries in his special Karl Rove Vibrating Flagpole to air this segment:

Schneider: Many Democrats were alarmed by the timing of the alert, right after John Kerry's triumphant convention, based on intelligence that was several years old. They saw politics, but Kerry couldn't say that without sounding cynical.

Sen. John Kerry: I haven't suggested that, and I won't suggest that.

Schneider: So, others said it, with or without Kerry's approval.

Howard Dean: It's just impossible to know how much of this is real and how much of this is politics.

Schneider: No fear of sounding cynical here. {Ed.: Tool.}

Jon Stewart (in a clip from The Daily Show): With the Democratic Party now in the spotlight, many people are wondering... Yes. Oh, this just in. I'm sorry. Terror warning. OK. All right. Well, I have to stop -- we'll have to stop talking about the Democrats.

Schneider: The administration was shocked - shocked - to hear that politics might be going on.

Tom Ridge: We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security.

Schneider: Oh, no?

Tom Ridge: The kind of information available to us today is the result of the president's leadership in the war against terror.

Later in the program Kitty Pilgrim had this exchange with Robert Kennedy Jr:

Kennedy: The problem is that you have an administration that is deliberately mounting a stealth attack and, you know its own pollster advised them: Frank Luntz advised the president in 2002, "We have to hide this from the American public because it's a radical agenda that is going to be offensive to people within our own party."

Plus you have a media that has been negligent about covering these issues. And actually Paul Krugman did a wonderful article this weekend for The Sunday Times in which he showed that the media is covering the fist fight but they're not -- the political fist fight, but there's almost no coverage of the actual positions of the candidates or the outcomes of many of these policies that have been promoted by the Bush administration.

Pilgrim: Well, hopefully through this segment and through your efforts we can draw more detail to this debate. Thank you very much for joining us.

Hmmmm, you think? I'd so love to believe that things are starting to change...