We Told You So ?
Less than a year after Bush’s reelection, a majority of Americans now understand that the administration is lying about the progress in Iraq. [See WashPost poll]
It really makes me wonder: What was this majority thinking last November?! Was Bush so much more believable a few months ago? No. Was the situation in Iraq significantly better back then? No. I propose a much more frightening answer to this question: Our media has failed us.
Consider: The truth is a hard thing to conceal forever. But in the short-term timeframe of election season, it was very easy for Karl Rove and the boys to fill the national dialogue with enough fluff to distract voters from the truth. With Fox News working 24 hours a day for the Bush administration and the rest of our national media sources too scared to report anything controversial, enough voters were uninformed or confused when they went to the polls.
Now that the absurdities of election season are over, the truth is ever so slowly beginning to emerge. Turns out everything is not honkey-dorey in Iraq. The insurgents aren’t becoming any weaker, nor is Iraq becoming any more secure. Our troops and Iraqi civilians continue to die, with no end in sight. This is precisely the same scenario we faced in November 2004. There has been no significant change. Our national media failed in reporting the truth and now we are paying the consequences.
The only silver lining is that Bush has already lost whatever momentum he had coming out of his reelection. He’s begun to quarrel with Congress and has failed to deliver most of his campaign promises. I just hope that in these next three years the media can find a spine and read up on how to do real journalism. Because in 2009 I don’t want to have to say it again: “We told you so!”
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