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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (7885)	11/27/2001 1:19:56 AM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 93284

Here read this "STUPIDITY WATCH" Writing in the Boston Globe, Joan Jacobs Brumberg and Jacquelyn Jackson claim that having the freedom to wear a bikini is almost as bad as being forced to wear a burkha: Now that the Taliban's horrific treatment of women is common knowledge, dieting and working out to wear a string bikini might seem to be a patriotic act. The war on terrorism has certainly raised our awareness of the ways in which women's bodies are controlled by a repressive regime in a far away land, but what about the constraints on women's bodies here at home, right here in America? . . . Whether it's the dark, sad eyes of a woman in purdah or the anxious darkly circled eyes of a girl with anorexia nervosa, the woman trapped inside needs to be liberated from cultural confines in whatever form they take. The burka and the bikini represent opposite ends of the political spectrum but each can exert a noose-like grip on the psyche and physical health of girls and women. That "noose-like grip on the psyche" is bad enough, but some editor should be fired for letting the following sentence slip into the paper: "The unrealistic body images that we see and admire every day in the media are literally eating away at the female backbone of our nation." It sounds like just a bad metaphor, but no--those images are literally eating that backbone!

To: Mephisto who wrote (7885)	11/27/2001 8:34:48 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Elite Media Fuming Over Bush's Popularity Monday Nov. 26, 2001; 6:07 p.m. EST It's no secret that the media elite can't stand the fact that President Bush has turned in a stellar performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and has the sky-high approval ratings to show for it. And while most reporters have put their presidential barbs on hold for the time being, every now and then some of the old anti-Bush venom slips out. One such frustrated Bush-hater is Newsday editorial writer Bob Keeler, who, apparently unable to stomach the fact that the Afghan war is actually going well, unburdened himself over the weekend of this particularly nasty diatribe: "The sight of President Bush in a 101st Airborne Division jacket this week, surrounded by troops, really irked me. There he was, the Chicken-Hawk-in-Chief, wearing the Screaming Eagle patch of a division that fought and died in Vietnam. I wonder how many troops standing with him felt the irony..... Apparently not many - given the wild cheers and standing ovations that usually greet Bush these days whenever he gets near a military base. Still, Keeler complained: "(During Vietnam) Bush chose to defend his home state in the Texas Air National Guard. Vice President Dick Cheney did no military service at all. This is useful history to remember now, when Bush and Cheney, long past draft age themselves, are mouthing macho rhetoric in the struggle against terrorism." The Newsday writer invoked his own Vietnam service to justify his Bush resentment, which begs the question: How did he manage to keep all that vituperation under wraps for eight years while a bona-fide Vietnam-era draft dodger repeatedly sent U.S. armed forces into harms way with little or no justification? newsmax.com