Monday, April 19, 2004
CNN's Latest Poll Plus A Reviving Spot of Alterman
Wolf Blitzer has the results of CNN's latest Gallup Poll. I could tell from his breathless excitement and from William Schneider's coiled enthusiasm and darting tongue that Bush had gained back some ground on Kerry.
The Poll is not yet up on the CNN website, nor could I find it at Gallup, but as I recall the overall numbers for Bush vs Kerry were Bush 54, Kerry 49. On Iraq, Bush's lead over Kerry was greater than that, ditto on who is better on terrorism in general.
Schneider had a lot to say, but I can sum it up for you in only a few words: the race is over: Bush to be reelected. Schneider was particularly impressed that Bush had regained his primacy over Kerry after two weeks that were bad ones for the President: Schneider's analysis, the country is rallying around a wartime President they perceive as the kind of guy you want in a situation of international threats and tension, tough, decisive, and determined to win. No matter that he lead us straight into the poop box we're struggling to get out of. Details, details.
That's an approximation of what got said; transcript along with the poll, lagging.
On the other hand, Kerry has been almost invisible these last several weeks. That might explain something.
It'll be interesting to see if the better polls starts to make the media whores who've been forced, finally, to notice that there are one or two things this administration needs to answer for, will now start to worry that they're going to be punished by their pimp for even thinking of removing themselves from his loving protection.
What this administration continues to get away with is mind-pulverizing.
Check out Alterman, back blogging today, running a quick total on the likely damage from Bush's billet-doux to Sharon, and making abundantly clear exactly what kind of brave new Israel Bush has signed off on, in the name of us all: a hint; if what's left of the West Bank on the other side of that concrete wall can rightfully be referred to as bantustans, what does that make Israel? Erik doesn't mince words.
He also takes a moment to unravel a particularly nauseating example of moral equivalency indulged in by MoDo.
Increasingly, Eric Alterman is showing himself worthy of Lambert's most excellent definition of what makes for a truly gifted polemicist, (which I differentiate from a propagandist), i.e., that his outrage be always fresh.
No small feat with this bunch in office.
The Poll is not yet up on the CNN website, nor could I find it at Gallup, but as I recall the overall numbers for Bush vs Kerry were Bush 54, Kerry 49. On Iraq, Bush's lead over Kerry was greater than that, ditto on who is better on terrorism in general.
Schneider had a lot to say, but I can sum it up for you in only a few words: the race is over: Bush to be reelected. Schneider was particularly impressed that Bush had regained his primacy over Kerry after two weeks that were bad ones for the President: Schneider's analysis, the country is rallying around a wartime President they perceive as the kind of guy you want in a situation of international threats and tension, tough, decisive, and determined to win. No matter that he lead us straight into the poop box we're struggling to get out of. Details, details.
That's an approximation of what got said; transcript along with the poll, lagging.
On the other hand, Kerry has been almost invisible these last several weeks. That might explain something.
It'll be interesting to see if the better polls starts to make the media whores who've been forced, finally, to notice that there are one or two things this administration needs to answer for, will now start to worry that they're going to be punished by their pimp for even thinking of removing themselves from his loving protection.
What this administration continues to get away with is mind-pulverizing.
Check out Alterman, back blogging today, running a quick total on the likely damage from Bush's billet-doux to Sharon, and making abundantly clear exactly what kind of brave new Israel Bush has signed off on, in the name of us all: a hint; if what's left of the West Bank on the other side of that concrete wall can rightfully be referred to as bantustans, what does that make Israel? Erik doesn't mince words.
He also takes a moment to unravel a particularly nauseating example of moral equivalency indulged in by MoDo.
Increasingly, Eric Alterman is showing himself worthy of Lambert's most excellent definition of what makes for a truly gifted polemicist, (which I differentiate from a propagandist), i.e., that his outrage be always fresh.
No small feat with this bunch in office.
