Reply #36: Is this the Wolcott post you were thinking of? [View All]

[Barrett808]

For months the Couch Potato Pattons have been telling us loud and clear that despite all the gloom-mongering, the US was doing better in Iraq than the loathed MSM was letting Americans know (Rich Lowry even was bold enough to issue a proclamation on the cover of the National Review cover story claiming, "We're Winning"), that there was a wealth of good news that was being deliberately unreported, and that our soldiers knew the real story, saw truer and deeper into what was happening than those elite editors in NY and DC vegetating behind their computer screens. Michael Graham, a rightwing radio host who has just returned with his fellow full mooners from the "Truth Tour" of Iraq, brought home the gospel he had heard in that troubled land to the readers of National Review Online.

"Again and again, from 'white-collar' soldiers working in the relative safety of Camp Victory at the Baghdad airport to the "real" soldiers patrolling Route Irish (a.k.a the 'Highway of Death'), I heard that America and their Iraqi-army allies are winning the war against the insurgents. I was told again and again by the soldiers themselves that their (our) cause is just, the strategy is working, and the enemy they fight represents evil itself.

"In other words, I heard things seldom heard on CBS or read in the pages of the New York Times."

The Sunday pages of The New York Times must have brought Michael Graham only further confirmation that what he heard over there is the plain truth and what he reads over here is fancy hogwash. Denying the enveloping disaster in Iraq is how he maintains his membership in the marching band of useful idiots.

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http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/07/sunday_bloody_s.php