Didn't watch it. I was too busy playing Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation versus Zeon Deluxe, which I picked up while on vacation.
In related news, I hear that Ricardo Sanchez is coming home. It would appear that Abu Ghraib has claimed a casualty after all. Buddy of mine said the TV told him that Sanchez was supposedly up for a fourth star, but that said submission of his name to Congress for that was on hold.
I may be jaded or something, but I'm getting the sense that peoples' minds have already been made up, or something, on Iraq. At the same time, I agree with Cliff May: "Too often in the past, this administration hasn't understood the importance of repeating a message, elaborating on a message, working a message until it burns its way into the public's mind and imagination."
People will, when told something enough times, more probably than not start to believe it. It works in the music business; witness the recent success of artists whose music is deplorable yet on the rotation every thirty or forty minutes. Even if the message you're trying to get out is, "Breathing is good", you'd have to hammer it into people's heads by an audio-visual multimedia campaign; Lord knows that something as complex and murky as Iraq needs at least such a thing.
Of course, the kicker is that when you do this, the established media types would probably start snickering about "Operation CANDOR" or complain about manipulation of the media. Enh. Iraq's yet another example of Kobayashi Maru, and there's a whining cadet---i.e. the media and/or the left in general---who rats every time you try and change the rules of the simulation.
I would, however, be highly amused if Bush stood up at a press conference and said, "I don't believe in the no-win scenario" and took a bite out of an apple.
Posted by Country Pundit at May 25, 2004 11:56 AM