New Evidence Vindicates President Bush

But underwhelms in the face of Cheney coverage.

If you got caught up in the overblown, childish, and utterly irrelevant coverage of Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap, you may have missed what may be the most important story of this young century. It had naught to do with Hurricane Katrina, Bird-flu, or Project DUL. Rather, it had everything to do with vindicating an administration that has been dogged by a media engine that desperately feeds the irrational and unmitigated rage of liberal voters, who, if properly stirred by the right people, would vote for Al Gore again given the opportunity.

As ABC Nightly News reported—probably to its own chagrin—evidence in the form of previously classified tapes of Saddam Hussein indicate that not only the tyrant sought to reinvigorate his chemical and nuclear weapons projects, but may indeed have had such weapons by the time the US intervened in 2003, and could have potentially transported those weapons to other hostile countries.

But the Dick Cheney interview still dominates the headlines. Did someone say obvious media bias? Not that it’s the media’s fault. But if given the choice to help matters, or hurt matters, they consistently choose the latter.

The decisions regarding the dissemination of information to major media outlets following President Cheney’s fault represent similar failings that have plagued the Bush administration for 5 years. If Cheney had immediately alerted the White House press corps, the subsequent frenzy of frothing, idiot journalists shouting at Scott McClellan could have been prevented. Instead, the ‘path of least resistance’ which equates to the ‘path of greatest conspiracy’ was chosen. So the same scenario played out. But how does that relate to the tapes translated by Tierney? The kind of mishandling that blows up an incident like a hunting accident after 5 years of experience with an inflammatory, biased and arrogant media that cares little for facts and everything for sensation indicates ineptitude at all parts of the administration. So, while Tierney’s reports have been circulating the intelligence offices, it wasn’t until they fell into the right hands that any progress was made.

If you managed to catch any of the hour that Bill Tierney spent on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory this evening, you caught a direct account summarizing the material that was barely scratched by the ABC Nightly News report. However, even in the hour of radio time, Tierney failed to adequately cover all the information he had. Two major handicaps now work against this vindicating and troubling information Tierney has uncovered: the vast amount of information to be covered and summarized, and effectively disseminating that summary to a populace that has become more convinced that the intelligence supporting an invasion of Iraq was faulty.

I can only pray they get it right this time.

I’ll admit, I enjoy writing about this, though. I enjoy writing about America being right regarding its own intelligence, regardless of the administration’s willingness to demure to a raging, illogical left. I enjoy writing this almost as much as media outlets have enjoyed spewing filth like ‘dead babies being raped in the New Orleans Superdome freezers,’ ‘President Bush is reading your email, constantly, and laughing while doing so,’ and ’11 miners found alive, but later killed by President Bush.’ Some of us like it when America succeeds. Others like it when America fails. If the past 5 years haven’t illustrated who is on which side, I don’t know what further evidence you may need.