Olbermann is up, O'Reilly is down.
That's the good news in the cable news ratings war. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is on a roll, his numbers up a whopping 66 percent in November, according to the industry trade magazine Television Week.
The strong ratings performance by Olbermann's Countdown program helped MSNBC cut into the audience of Fox News, which still leads all network news operations in the cable news field.
Despite its big numbers, the ratings at Fox are falling, Television Week reported. O'Reilly's numbers were off 17 percent for November, while Fox News overall was down 13 percent.
Our take on the numbers: Maybe, just maybe, O'Reilly's mean-spirited little act has run its course. After the hype and hot air, there never was much there.
We'll stick with Olbermann, who offers honest, critical analysis of the Bush Administration on a regular basis, something the "Fair and Balanced" boys at Fox never quite manage to do.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
A Peaceful Christmas
In the spirit of the Christmas season, while the nation remains at war, we at AltTulsa offer this Ben Franklin quotation for your consideration:
"I hope…that Mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable Creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats: For in my opinion there never was a good War, or a bad Peace."
--Benjamin Franklin, from a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, July 27, 1783
"I hope…that Mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable Creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats: For in my opinion there never was a good War, or a bad Peace."
--Benjamin Franklin, from a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, July 27, 1783
Monday, December 11, 2006
Rush and the Decline of Common Sense
We at AltTulsa like to keep our eyes and ears open, which is why we spend a few minutes each week listening to the rants of right-wing radio talkers like Rush Limbaugh. Last time we tuned in, Rush was blasting the lefties again (yawn…) for their crazy conspiracy ideas about 9/11. Apparently, liberals now know that George Bush himself was behind the whole thing. He even cited a "liberal" website that proves the Bush connection.
There is such a site. Except that, just maybe, this isn't a liberal website at all. Maybe this charge is one of those Rush talking points that whips up the indignation of the faithful Dittoheads (and they are so well named) but disappears once you take a look at the facts.
We can say with great confidence that the liberals we know and the progressive blogs we read don't make this charge. They don't even bother to repeat it. They ignore it because they too think it's nonsense. Yet Rush himself repeats it right here in Tulsa and blames the Godless liberals, the source of all evil in the Western World.
Again, it's nonsense. But nonsense is a big part of Rush's radio rant. If you paint all liberals as wild-eyed wackos and repeat it often enough, somebody will believe it. In the world according to Rush, there's no need to bother with "liberal" notions of fact, evidence, data, or truth. That stuff—it's all part of the liberal conspiracy to undermine America.
There is such a site. Except that, just maybe, this isn't a liberal website at all. Maybe this charge is one of those Rush talking points that whips up the indignation of the faithful Dittoheads (and they are so well named) but disappears once you take a look at the facts.
We can say with great confidence that the liberals we know and the progressive blogs we read don't make this charge. They don't even bother to repeat it. They ignore it because they too think it's nonsense. Yet Rush himself repeats it right here in Tulsa and blames the Godless liberals, the source of all evil in the Western World.
Again, it's nonsense. But nonsense is a big part of Rush's radio rant. If you paint all liberals as wild-eyed wackos and repeat it often enough, somebody will believe it. In the world according to Rush, there's no need to bother with "liberal" notions of fact, evidence, data, or truth. That stuff—it's all part of the liberal conspiracy to undermine America.
Sen. Inhofe's Faulty Numbers on Warming
Tulsa's own Jim Inhofe, the senior senator from Our Great State, has once again put politics ahead of facts in the debate over global warming. Speaking recently on the always "fair and balanced" Fox network, Sen. Inhofe claimed that "[i]t was warmer in the '30s than it is today," and that "it was warmer in the 15th century than it is today."
Unsurprisingly, Inhofe offered no evidence in support of these claims. True to form, the Fox correspondent didn't challenge Inhofe's numbers either. The studies Inhofe might have cited, including one by NASA and another by the National Academy of Sciences, show the quite the opposite: it has been getting steadily getting warmer over the centuries. (Check the data yourself at Media Matters.)
Inhofe did admit to some recent warming, but said it's all part of God's plan. "Let's let God work his thing," the senator said. We're not sure about God's "thing," but we do think God's children have a responsibility to look after the planet God gave us.
In any case, Sen. Inhofe's claims about temperature, like many of this global warming claims, seem to be wishful thinking. But fantasies and preconceived notions about the environment are no substitute for actual data and evidence. On the issue of global warming, the evidence keeps working against Inhofe's claims, putting him and his ideas farther and farther out of the scientific mainstream.
Tulsa and Oklahoma deserve better. We need political leaders who know the difference between propaganda and real science and who act on the basis of facts, not wishful thinking.
Unsurprisingly, Inhofe offered no evidence in support of these claims. True to form, the Fox correspondent didn't challenge Inhofe's numbers either. The studies Inhofe might have cited, including one by NASA and another by the National Academy of Sciences, show the quite the opposite: it has been getting steadily getting warmer over the centuries. (Check the data yourself at Media Matters.)
Inhofe did admit to some recent warming, but said it's all part of God's plan. "Let's let God work his thing," the senator said. We're not sure about God's "thing," but we do think God's children have a responsibility to look after the planet God gave us.
In any case, Sen. Inhofe's claims about temperature, like many of this global warming claims, seem to be wishful thinking. But fantasies and preconceived notions about the environment are no substitute for actual data and evidence. On the issue of global warming, the evidence keeps working against Inhofe's claims, putting him and his ideas farther and farther out of the scientific mainstream.
Tulsa and Oklahoma deserve better. We need political leaders who know the difference between propaganda and real science and who act on the basis of facts, not wishful thinking.
Friday, December 8, 2006
Tulsa's War Against Birth Control
We here at AltTulsa don't mind hearing the other side in a political argument. But the Tulsa-based group arguing against birth control has "a hard row to hoe," as we used to say in the South.
The latest attack on women's efforts to control their own bodies was a letter in today's Tulsa World. The letter argues that the use of oral contraceptives (the pill) is linked to divorce. Thus, the letter argues, as the pill became popular in the 1960s, the divorce rate soared.
Well, it's not that simple. In the first place, the argument violates a fundamental rule of statistics: correlation does not equal causation. Just because the pill became popular does mean it caused a soaring divorce rate. Correlations can't account for other causal factors, of which there are many in this case.
More fundamentally, American couples have embraced a variety of family planning and birth control methods despite the best efforts of the zealots and religious warriors. Hasn't it long been the case that Catholic women, for instance, use birth control in overwhelming numbers and in direct violation of the church's teaching?
We suspect that the War on Birth Control was lost many years ago. Wouldn't it be better to put all that money and energy into something that would really help Tulsans who need it?
The latest attack on women's efforts to control their own bodies was a letter in today's Tulsa World. The letter argues that the use of oral contraceptives (the pill) is linked to divorce. Thus, the letter argues, as the pill became popular in the 1960s, the divorce rate soared.
Well, it's not that simple. In the first place, the argument violates a fundamental rule of statistics: correlation does not equal causation. Just because the pill became popular does mean it caused a soaring divorce rate. Correlations can't account for other causal factors, of which there are many in this case.
More fundamentally, American couples have embraced a variety of family planning and birth control methods despite the best efforts of the zealots and religious warriors. Hasn't it long been the case that Catholic women, for instance, use birth control in overwhelming numbers and in direct violation of the church's teaching?
We suspect that the War on Birth Control was lost many years ago. Wouldn't it be better to put all that money and energy into something that would really help Tulsans who need it?
Gregory vs. Snow, Part 132
One of the best shows in Washington these days in the daily contest between Tony Snow, the ex-Fox newsman and current White House flak (we mean, spokesman), and David Gregory, the silver-haired NBC News correspondent.
Every day, it seems, Gregory asks a question that Snow finds highly irritating, if not totally partisan. Snow then engages in an empty rhetorical tap-dance, throws Gregory's question back at him, and accuses Gregory (and, by extension, the entire WH press corps) of bias.
Earth to Tony: Answering hard questions is part of the job. If anything, WH reporters has been too docile during the Bush years, letting the president and his people get away with ill-conceived policies (the Patriotic Act) and too many lapses in judgment (remember those WMDs?).
Yet the ever-partisan Mr. Snow never fails to find partisanship in tough questions, as if the role of the press is to sit on its hands and pretend that all is well in Washington and the world. It's not, and even George Bush would be better served by a press secretary who acknowledged the fact that democracies need reporters who routinely challenge authority.
To our way of thinking, David Gregory is serving the citizenry by pushing for more information and more honesty at the highest levels of the Executive Branch.
You can usually catch highlights of the Snow vs. Gregory contest on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" program on MSMBC. Recommended viewing for the 71 percent of us (see previous entry) who think that Bush has blown it badly in Iraq.
Every day, it seems, Gregory asks a question that Snow finds highly irritating, if not totally partisan. Snow then engages in an empty rhetorical tap-dance, throws Gregory's question back at him, and accuses Gregory (and, by extension, the entire WH press corps) of bias.
Earth to Tony: Answering hard questions is part of the job. If anything, WH reporters has been too docile during the Bush years, letting the president and his people get away with ill-conceived policies (the Patriotic Act) and too many lapses in judgment (remember those WMDs?).
Yet the ever-partisan Mr. Snow never fails to find partisanship in tough questions, as if the role of the press is to sit on its hands and pretend that all is well in Washington and the world. It's not, and even George Bush would be better served by a press secretary who acknowledged the fact that democracies need reporters who routinely challenge authority.
To our way of thinking, David Gregory is serving the citizenry by pushing for more information and more honesty at the highest levels of the Executive Branch.
You can usually catch highlights of the Snow vs. Gregory contest on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" program on MSMBC. Recommended viewing for the 71 percent of us (see previous entry) who think that Bush has blown it badly in Iraq.
As the War Turns
Today's good news: W's failings finally sink in.
The headlines this morning are clear: The public's disapproval of the President's handling of the Iraq war has reached a new high—71 percent.
It's about time. The Iraq Study Group this week laid bare the Administration's lies, distortions, cover-ups, and general incompetence in starting and executing the war.
This kind of news restores our confidence in the American public. Bush couldn't fool all the people all the time, and his reputation is (deservedly) in tatters. Even in Republican Tulsa, we suspect the Bush star has tarnished.
Sadly, our fighting men and women have had to pay the price for W's mistakes.
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Tulsa's Bumper Sticker Genocide
We spotted a black SUV driving along Tulsa's Sheridan Road this morning festooned with bumper stickers, one of which read "Nuke 'Em and Seize Their Assets." The American flag waved proudly beside this message.
We're in favor of free speech. We're also in favor of the flag and the liberties it represents. But we have serious doubts about the "Nuke 'Em" message.
For starters, it seems to suggest that we should kill all our enemies. While that might be a satisfying rhetorical position, it also appears to be an endorsement of genocide, defined in our Webster's as "actions intended to destroy a whole national or ethnic group."
Is that really what some Tulsans want? Do we really have to destroy an entire national or ethnic (or religious) group to get even with the Sept. 11 terrorists and their allies? Will massive retribution and the death of thousands of innocent men, women, and children, really make the world a better place? We can't see the logic here.
Sure, it feels good to "grandstand" on a bumper sticker. But it makes more sense to think seriously about what you're saying and what it might mean a world filled with far too much hate, violence, and intolerance.
We're in favor of free speech. We're also in favor of the flag and the liberties it represents. But we have serious doubts about the "Nuke 'Em" message.
For starters, it seems to suggest that we should kill all our enemies. While that might be a satisfying rhetorical position, it also appears to be an endorsement of genocide, defined in our Webster's as "actions intended to destroy a whole national or ethnic group."
Is that really what some Tulsans want? Do we really have to destroy an entire national or ethnic (or religious) group to get even with the Sept. 11 terrorists and their allies? Will massive retribution and the death of thousands of innocent men, women, and children, really make the world a better place? We can't see the logic here.
Sure, it feels good to "grandstand" on a bumper sticker. But it makes more sense to think seriously about what you're saying and what it might mean a world filled with far too much hate, violence, and intolerance.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Recommended: Coffee Film at the Circle
AltTulsa is recommending the documentary film Black Gold, showing Thursday and again Sunday at the Circle Cinema. The film highlights the international trading system in coffee, a system that enriches the coffee traders at the expense of the coffee growers in Africa and other poor countries.
The film makes clear that the world economic system usually works against the poor and urges American consumers to seek out coffee and other products that are Fair Trade approved. It's a moving and informative film, well worth the drive up Lewis Avenue to the Circle Cinema.
We at AltTulsa drank some Fair Trade coffee just this morning. It was a good French roast from Green Mountain Roasters. We got in on sale at Wild Oats on 41st Street in Brookside, where you can get it too.
The film makes clear that the world economic system usually works against the poor and urges American consumers to seek out coffee and other products that are Fair Trade approved. It's a moving and informative film, well worth the drive up Lewis Avenue to the Circle Cinema.
We at AltTulsa drank some Fair Trade coffee just this morning. It was a good French roast from Green Mountain Roasters. We got in on sale at Wild Oats on 41st Street in Brookside, where you can get it too.
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Still Beating the Same Dead Horse
One of our least favorite talking heads is the all-too-obvious Cal Thomas. Never one to broach an original idea, Thomas recently offered his thoughts in the Tulsa World on the now-cancelled O.J. Simpson television special, the one where O.J. was going to talk about how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend, if he had done it.
Not surprisingly, Thomas, who is a paid pundit on Fox, couldn't bring himself to blame this good friends at "fair and balanced" Fox. Instead, Thomas pointed out how all the other television networks were just as bad. They all cross the line, Thomas wrote.
Nice try, Cal, but no cigar.
Why? Because Thomas contradicts himself even as he lays out his case, conceding that the recent NBC special on Tony Bennett didn't fit his preconceived pattern of still more sex and violence on television. (We can name several other exceptions (The Office comes to mind), but Thomas was probably just too distracted to mention any others.)
More significantly, Thomas blurs difference between fact and fiction, between CSI, which presents fictional bad guys and fake murders, and O.J., who is a living, breathing bad guy who committed real murders.
Contrary to Thomas, we say there's a real difference here, one that he ought to acknowledge. Fictional TV, even when it is in bad taste or over the top, is still fiction. On the CSI shows, programs Thomas criticizes for their graphic nature, the bad guys always get caught and good guys always win. That's manifestly different from O.J. Simpson, who got away with murder literally, and is now free to play a lot of golf.
We don't mind people who criticize the media. But Thomas lumps all media together—news, entertainment, reality and fiction—as if there's not a nickel's worth of difference. But there is, and a high-priced Right Thinking pundit ought to say so.
Not surprisingly, Thomas, who is a paid pundit on Fox, couldn't bring himself to blame this good friends at "fair and balanced" Fox. Instead, Thomas pointed out how all the other television networks were just as bad. They all cross the line, Thomas wrote.
Nice try, Cal, but no cigar.
Why? Because Thomas contradicts himself even as he lays out his case, conceding that the recent NBC special on Tony Bennett didn't fit his preconceived pattern of still more sex and violence on television. (We can name several other exceptions (The Office comes to mind), but Thomas was probably just too distracted to mention any others.)
More significantly, Thomas blurs difference between fact and fiction, between CSI, which presents fictional bad guys and fake murders, and O.J., who is a living, breathing bad guy who committed real murders.
Contrary to Thomas, we say there's a real difference here, one that he ought to acknowledge. Fictional TV, even when it is in bad taste or over the top, is still fiction. On the CSI shows, programs Thomas criticizes for their graphic nature, the bad guys always get caught and good guys always win. That's manifestly different from O.J. Simpson, who got away with murder literally, and is now free to play a lot of golf.
We don't mind people who criticize the media. But Thomas lumps all media together—news, entertainment, reality and fiction—as if there's not a nickel's worth of difference. But there is, and a high-priced Right Thinking pundit ought to say so.
News Flash: Administration Official Tells the Truth about Iraq
Paging Tony Snow! Spin Doctor Needed Stat!
In a stunning reversal of administration policy, Defense Secretary designee Robert Gates admitted today that the U.S. is losing the war in Iraq. Just six weeks ago, Mr. Bush himself proclaimed that we were winning. (See Crooks & Liars; they have the video to prove it.) As we have learned over the last several years, the Bush White House has an aversion to truth-telling, especially about its many foreign policy miscalculations.
Apparently, somone forget to send the memo to Mr. Gates. Or perhaps this intrusion of reality into the White House playbook is a turn for the better, an admission that the White House brain trust (we're using the term loosely) has finally faced what the rest of us—even people here in good ole in Tulsa, Oklahoma—realized many months ago. The war was a mistake when Bush started it, and it remains a huge blunder today.
In a complex and dangeous world, the President has made the nation less secure. And he has no idea how to fix the problems he's created. Mr. Gates may or may not be helpful in solving the President's problems, but if he's willing to tell the truth, that in itself is a tiny step in the right direction.
In a stunning reversal of administration policy, Defense Secretary designee Robert Gates admitted today that the U.S. is losing the war in Iraq. Just six weeks ago, Mr. Bush himself proclaimed that we were winning. (See Crooks & Liars; they have the video to prove it.) As we have learned over the last several years, the Bush White House has an aversion to truth-telling, especially about its many foreign policy miscalculations.
Apparently, somone forget to send the memo to Mr. Gates. Or perhaps this intrusion of reality into the White House playbook is a turn for the better, an admission that the White House brain trust (we're using the term loosely) has finally faced what the rest of us—even people here in good ole in Tulsa, Oklahoma—realized many months ago. The war was a mistake when Bush started it, and it remains a huge blunder today.
In a complex and dangeous world, the President has made the nation less secure. And he has no idea how to fix the problems he's created. Mr. Gates may or may not be helpful in solving the President's problems, but if he's willing to tell the truth, that in itself is a tiny step in the right direction.
Monday, December 4, 2006
From BA to Broadway
We were pleased to see Broken Arrow's own Kristin Chenoweth featured in the New York Times yesterday. It seems that Ms. Chenoweth is a very busy young woman in the Big Apple, moving successfully through a host of plays and glitzy events in NYC's entertainment world.
None of this is surprising, of course—the lady's got talent to burn.
But we were pleasantly surprised to read some of her other comments, views which clash with Oklahoma's conventional wisdom. Like us, Ms. Chenoweth is tired of sitting on her hands when the Religious Busybodies attack. And they did attack recently, right after she spoke out in favor of gay rights. According to the Times, this position got her disinvited to a Women of Faith conference last year. (Heavens! A Broken Arrow girl who has lost her way in New York City!)
But Ms. Chenoweth didn't stop there. She had the nerve earlier this year to pose in what the Times calls "a parade of tiny bikinis" for FHM magazine. (Holy Cow! Who knew she had a body?) And if that's wasn't enough, she told the Times yesterday that she still disagrees with the anti-gay position expressed by many on the religious right.
"I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage," Chenoweth told the Times. "Get over it, people."
Ms. Chenoweth, we're with you. It's safe and easy for the Blue Noses of the Right to be homophobic here in Middle America. But it's brave and honest to stand up for living, breathing human beings—and U.S. citizens—who deserve fair and equal treatment in Tulsa and everywhere else.
Thanks, Kristen, for speaking your mind.
None of this is surprising, of course—the lady's got talent to burn.
But we were pleasantly surprised to read some of her other comments, views which clash with Oklahoma's conventional wisdom. Like us, Ms. Chenoweth is tired of sitting on her hands when the Religious Busybodies attack. And they did attack recently, right after she spoke out in favor of gay rights. According to the Times, this position got her disinvited to a Women of Faith conference last year. (Heavens! A Broken Arrow girl who has lost her way in New York City!)
But Ms. Chenoweth didn't stop there. She had the nerve earlier this year to pose in what the Times calls "a parade of tiny bikinis" for FHM magazine. (Holy Cow! Who knew she had a body?) And if that's wasn't enough, she told the Times yesterday that she still disagrees with the anti-gay position expressed by many on the religious right.
"I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage," Chenoweth told the Times. "Get over it, people."
Ms. Chenoweth, we're with you. It's safe and easy for the Blue Noses of the Right to be homophobic here in Middle America. But it's brave and honest to stand up for living, breathing human beings—and U.S. citizens—who deserve fair and equal treatment in Tulsa and everywhere else.
Thanks, Kristen, for speaking your mind.
Sunday, December 3, 2006
Pearson's Religion, Part 2
We could not help but notice that today's Tulsa World included a letter complaining about the recent coverage of Bishop Carlton Pearson, coverage we noted in an earlier AltTulsa post. It seems our friendly correspondent was put off by the World's favorable coverage of the man, who, in the writer's eyes, has willfully abandoned The True Faith.
We're not sure what The True Faith is, and we're not sure our correspondent does either. But we would have hoped it included room for Bishop Pearson and other wayward souls (like us). We also believe that the Tulsa World did something newspapers ought to do: report respectfully on a religious person of good will without subjecting him (or anyone else) to a theological litmus test.
As we all should know by now, religious belief is a deeply personal matter and complex matter. It's also highly divisive in many cases, which is why we have no complaint to make about Bishop Pearson. His theology, after all, includes forgiveness.
We're not sure what The True Faith is, and we're not sure our correspondent does either. But we would have hoped it included room for Bishop Pearson and other wayward souls (like us). We also believe that the Tulsa World did something newspapers ought to do: report respectfully on a religious person of good will without subjecting him (or anyone else) to a theological litmus test.
As we all should know by now, religious belief is a deeply personal matter and complex matter. It's also highly divisive in many cases, which is why we have no complaint to make about Bishop Pearson. His theology, after all, includes forgiveness.
Saturday, December 2, 2006
Update: Conventional Wisdom in Tulsa
Scanning the Blogosphere recently, we happened to spend a few minutes reading the editorials in Tulsa Today, a local news website. Sad to say, we found this a depressing exercise, brimming with cliches and recycled conservative tripe.
Some examples: Praise for Sen. Jim Inhofe (from a Washington talking head), attacks on the liberal media (yawn), and other tired tales from the exhausted Right.
How refreshing it would be to read a Tulsa news site with some original thinking and fresh perspectives. We'll keep looking.
Some examples: Praise for Sen. Jim Inhofe (from a Washington talking head), attacks on the liberal media (yawn), and other tired tales from the exhausted Right.
How refreshing it would be to read a Tulsa news site with some original thinking and fresh perspectives. We'll keep looking.
Friday, December 1, 2006
Brookside's Coffee Contest
The coffee competition in Brookside heated up recently when the 800-lb. coffee gorilla, Starbucks, opened a new store on Peoria, across the street from Crow Creek. We visited recently and were, well, underwhelmed. The new location is slick and bright, but had little of the charm of our comfortable Brookside favorite, Shades of Brown.
We at AltTulsa don't mind a good cuppa Starbucks on occasion, but for a home-grown alternative, we recommend Melinda and the friendly folks at Shade of Brown. (Besides, Shades has free wifi, and Starbucks requires us to pay for T-Mobile, which we decline to do).
We realize this endorsement puts us on the same side as some other Tulsa bloggers (Michael Bates at Batesline, for instance), but that's fine. Even Michael is sometimes right.
We at AltTulsa don't mind a good cuppa Starbucks on occasion, but for a home-grown alternative, we recommend Melinda and the friendly folks at Shade of Brown. (Besides, Shades has free wifi, and Starbucks requires us to pay for T-Mobile, which we decline to do).
We realize this endorsement puts us on the same side as some other Tulsa bloggers (Michael Bates at Batesline, for instance), but that's fine. Even Michael is sometimes right.
Bush's Continued Incompetence
Journalist Mark Danner has new evidence of President Bush's continued pipe dream of bringing democracy to Iraq. In a lengthy review of three recent books on the administration's war policies, Danner recounts the many misjudgments of Bush, Cheney & Co.over the past several years. The books under review include Bob Woodward's latest, State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, and Ron Suskind's The One Percent Docrtine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11. Not surprisingly, The New York Review, which published Danner's essay, called it "Bush's Fantasy War." Check it out at the magazine's website, www.nyreview.com.
By now, you'd think the President's mistakes and his other misadventures would have penetrated even the Republican True Believers in Tulsa and around Oklahoma. But no: we keep seeing "W'04" stickers all over south Tulsa.
It's sad: George W, the Great Hope of Texas Conservatives, was supposed to be the real deal: tough but compassionate, conservative but pragmatic, Christian but not doctrinaire. None of this was ever really true, and now, American sons and daughters, Iraqis, all of us really, have to pay the price for W's foolishness.
By now, you'd think the President's mistakes and his other misadventures would have penetrated even the Republican True Believers in Tulsa and around Oklahoma. But no: we keep seeing "W'04" stickers all over south Tulsa.
It's sad: George W, the Great Hope of Texas Conservatives, was supposed to be the real deal: tough but compassionate, conservative but pragmatic, Christian but not doctrinaire. None of this was ever really true, and now, American sons and daughters, Iraqis, all of us really, have to pay the price for W's foolishness.
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