That’s Enough, PI
Apr 9th 2008Bull MoosePolitics & Hippie Watch & Ferry Tales & Life in the Enlightened Blue Archipelago
I’ve had it with the Seattle PI. It’s too bad the JOA dispute with the Seattle Times didn’t cause them to fold. Take, for example, yesterday:
General Petraeus: “Iran has played a destructive role.”
Seattle PI: “It was the Iranians, not the surge, that are responsible for the late improvement. Oh, and the war is unwinnable.”
This is a few days after they excused the inexcusable: Baghdad Jim’s trip to Iraq on Saddam’s nickel. It was OK, you see, for a sitting congressman to be manipulated by a dictator who was under sanctions by the US and the UN because “he was right.”
Even if you accept that he was right, that’s an interesting standard they set. It’s fine to take trips paid for by blood money as long as you are fighting the good fight.
If I were to hit the streets tonight and gun down meth dealers who are ruining the lives of hundreds, will the Seattle PI Editorial Board come to my defense when I’m arrested? (Let’s assume all the drug dealers are white, to take one of their favorite cards out of the equation.) Somehow I doubt it.
Of course, all of this follows the PI’s refusal to run the pictures of some people the FBI wanted to talk to because they thought they might be casing the ferry system thousands of people, including me, travel on every day.
They’ve demonstrated time and again that the interests of their country, justice, and even the safety of their own readers takes a back seat to their political agenda. In the words of one of their hero Kos: Screw them.
Plus I might point out that they called Kansas the most overrated #1 seed and had them losing in the Sweet 16, so it’s not like their sports section redeems them at all.
The other day on the ferry a woman put her bags down across from me, went and bought a paper, came back, took out the crossword puzzle and threw the rest of the paper in the recycling without looking at it. At first I thought that was one of the silliest things I’d ever seen. Then I realized it was the PI and thought maybe it was the smartest thing I’ve ever seen.
By the way, I hope the McCain campaign is paying attention to the memes being developed in the Petraeus editorial. The left is tipping their hand as to how they are going to try to shoot down (pun intended) McCain in the fall. McCain says he helped push for the surge, claim it was the Iranians, not the surge that was effective. People think Obama is too soft on Iraq? Make the case that Afghanistan is where we should be being tough, and can only do so by abandoning Iraq. Those are ridiculous arguments that need to be cut off at the pass before they become another false truism of the left.
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