Worthy Of His Steel

[poliphilo]

The symbiosis of Bush and bin-Laden.

Bin Laden helped to get Bush re-elected by weighing in with a broadcast that seemed to be urging support for Kerry. Of course it had the effect of bolstering support for Bush. CIA operatives have concluded that this was entirely what bin-Laden wanted.

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bin-Laden needs Bush's blundering War on Terror. It recruits jihadis for him. It anoints him as the Commander of the Faithful. And Bush needs bin-Laden. He was a one term president in the making until bin-Laden handed him his war.

Both men are boosted by aggrandising their enemy. Every superhero needs a super villain. You're only as heroic as your opponent is fearsome. Holmes needs Moriarty and Moriarty needs Holmes.

Comments

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I don't trust anything I read from that source. They are so blatantly biased that I don't think they can do straight reporting.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Is there any such thing as an unbiased news source?

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that this is a rhetorical question.

There are lots of kinds of bias--one of the more subtle is, of course, the kind of stories you choose to put in your publication. A less subtle form is frothing at the mouth, and frankly, that taints all of truthout for me. (And I'm a liberal--these should be my people.)

Re: tapping the foot

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Truthout is a bit of a rag-bag. They bring together liberal and left-wing op-ed pieces from all sorts of sources and some are strident and frothy and others are closely argued and based on solid investigative journalism. You have to pick and choose.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Weren't they the ones that broke the story that a Rove indictment was imminent?

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

Probably. QED.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They may well have done.

They reprint stories from all kinds of sources; one has to pick and choose. Their best stuff is very, very good, their worst stuff is windy and strident.