So, is it news that the people whom conservatives call "liberal" call themselves "moderate"? Did you miss the memo?
The salient point is, with the press as a whole so far to the left of the American public, the media does not need to do anything to tilt to the left. If they just "call'em as they see'em", the tilt will be there. They are so socked into expectations of quagmire in Iraq that they can't seem to digest news that doesn't fit the program.
For instance, the 9 militias agreeing to disband or join the government - including the 2 Kurdish pershmergas and Dawa - that's wonderful news. The NYTimes seems unable to notice that it's good news, and goes on about how al Sadr's militia has not joined up. Well, militias that didn't join up were outlawed, so his militia is now outlawed, in addition to having just retreated from most of the cities of the south that they took over with such a show in April, being disapproved by all the senior clerics, being hated by the public, and being in a world of hurt delivered by the US Marines. So tell me, in the august opinion of the NYT, is this a position of strength? The NYT can't seem able to decide. |
