It just keeps going, and going, and going, and going... After tonight's dramatic but shallow apology from Rather and his softball interview with the supplier of the forged documents used in the recent 60 Minutes "BushGuard" episode, Bill Burkett, tomorrow's USA Today will run their own interview in which Burkett says that he told CBS that he would only supply the documents if they set up communication with the Kerry campaign. Did you get that? "With the Kerry campaign!" Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated story, a top Kerry aide, Joe Lockhart, is now the second person within the Kerry campaign to acknowledge that he talked with Burkett, (apparently about stuff completely unrelated to Burkett's obsessive/compulsive fixation on George Bush's National Guard record).
So the story has morphed. It's no longer about CBS, it's about what John Kerry knew and when he knew it. This, just as Kerry launches his umpteenth new attack on George Bush's Iraq policy, changing his position yet again, and just as al Qaeda saws off another American's head, and murders two Sunni clergymen in a vain attempt to get some press to help out the Kerry campaign's flagging "Iraq the Quagmire" thesis. They must be frustrated as a dog's behind at the way Americans manage election campaigns... But then they would be expected to have a hitch in their getalong when it comes to influencing a Democratic process, wouldn't they? I guess it just doesn't pay to be a murdering apostate bound-for-hell terrorist asshole any more, does it? What the heck's the world coming to?
Posted by Demosophist at September 20, 2004 11:24 PM | TrackBackYou got the description all a-okay in the last paragraph except for the word apsotate. These people are the ultimate adherents to a flawed religious system. Until we acknowledge that, it ain't gonna change.
Posted by: don at September 21, 2004 05:22 PMI have no doubt that the religious system is flawed, but so were God 1.0 (Judaism) and God 2.0 (Christianity). What they need is an update, a reformation... or rather what they need to do is complete and finalized a perpetual reformation. Right now the pathological "apostate" version is actually a fusion of the flawed version of Islam and the flawed philosophy of the European Counter-enlightenment. That's one reason there's so much sympatico with the Euro-left. Islamism is a radicalized Islamicized version of "Liberation Theology." And Ossama Bin Laden is the direct heir of the "harsh angel" Che Guevara.
Posted by: Demosophist (to Don) at September 22, 2004 08:16 AM