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Media: Who'd have thought that just before we celebrated America's birthday, and just after President Bush asked for support, we'd hear that the founders were terrorists and Bush ought to be impeached?
Iranian President-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad might be a terrorist. Five former hostages are convinced he's one of the Iranian students who took U.S. citizens hostage in 1979. For now, though, the media are not calling him a terrorist.
Which is OK, because the allegation has not been proved.
Too bad George Washington and Thomas Jefferson can't get the same deference. At least "several" in the mainstream press believe those two were terrorists.
"What would it all matter if (the hostages' claims were) proven true?" NBC News anchor Brian Williams asked reporter Andrea Mitchell on the air Thursday night. "Someone brought up today the first several U.S. presidents were certainly revolutionaries and might have been called 'terrorists' by the British crown, after all."
The "someone" Williams referred to, according to his own MSNBC blog, is himself and others — "several of us," in his words — who were in an afternoon network editorial meeting.
Whew! And a happy Independence Day to you too, Brian. We can see that you're overflowing with gratitude toward Washington, Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison, revolutionaries who were among the first U.S. presidents.
Jefferson and Adams, by the way, both died on July 4, 1826, on the 50th anniversary of this nation's founding.
Speaking of slick timing, how about the wide berth MSNBC's Keith Olberman gave the same night to a new Zogby poll showing two in five Americans think Bush ought to be impeached?
Impeached!? Where this question came from, only Zogby International knows. But apparently the well-known polling firm sensed a suspicion in the land that Bush "did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq."
The response was significant enough, President John Zogby told Olberman, that he intends to follow up in future surveys.
We chalk it up to more wishful thinking on the pollster's part. After all, it was John Zogby (not to be confused with his brother, James, president of the Arab American Institute) who well before last November's election effectively called the race for John Kerry.
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