The American Spectator

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, all of this is of no interest to the media since Ms. Sheehan's antics failed to help them gain the ouster of President Bush, and worse, she is now focusing her strident criticism on them. Proving that even a broken clock is right twice a day, the Peace Mom concluded that br> /p>

...I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party....However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the "left" started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used.

br> Of course the most under-reported stories continue to be those that remotely suggest the surge in Iraq may be showing positive results; a notable exception being Joe Klein's piece in Time , "Is al-Qaeda on the Run in Iraq?" It is a minor miracle indeed that a major news outlet admits that al Qaeda is even in Iraq, let alone that they may be "on the run."

Should the impossible happen and the rest of the media decide to lift the veil from their own eyes and thus from the hapless Americans still bound by their power, military matters might become more clear to them. And, a few months down the road, they will discover that the Republican primary will come down to a contest between Romney and Thompson. And although that will gladden the hearts of true conservatives, it will be an unhappy awakening for the media.

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John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Religion, Abortion, Military, Iraq, NATO