WTF Is It Now?!?

I bet Bush talked tough about the Vietcong when he was in the National Guard
"You can't win a war you don't believe in fighting," the AWOL war deserter said yesterday.

You call that a major policy address?

Did CNN and MSNBC get hoodwinked? Yesterday, the White House announced that [the lying fascist punk] would be delivering a "major policy address" on terrorism today. The cable news networks broadcast it live and in full. Yet the "address" turned out to be a standard campaign stump speech before a Pennsylvania crowd that seemed pumped on peyote, cheering, screaming, or whooping at every sentence.

The president announced no new policy, uttered not one new word about terrorism, foreign policy, or anything else. He did all the things he wanted to do in last Thursday's debate - accuse his opponent of weakness, bad judgment, vacillation, and other forms of flip-floppery - though this time without a moderator to hush the audience, much less an opponent to bite back. And Bush loved it, smiling, smirking, raising his eyebrows, as if to say, "How 'bout that zinger?"

In short, the cable networks were lured into airing an hourlong free campaign ad for George W. Bush.

- Fred Kaplan, in Slate.