THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS

Today I have a sense, based on nothing concrete, that a lot of the press abuse against Conservatives has calmed down. I say this because yesterday I lunched with some people of the show biz stripe, all liberal White Flag Democrats right down to their Bentleys and Ferraris, and several of them commented that they had read Michael Yon and had gone from there to some soldier's blogs more than once. These are people who read only the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and Nation (along with the show biz bird cage liners) so even mentioning other media is strange territory for them. Maybe it's because Spielberg's movie "that will change the world" is a piece of self indulgent shit and is being ravaged by their media pals; maybe it's because the Christian Right's favorite movie, Narnia, looks like a monster hit, as does the spectacular pablum fest, King What's His Name; or maybe they are beginning to think that MSM might not be telling the truth all the time.

I know that Time Mag has turned Left and is doing the PC shuffle, but this crowd knows it as well and the hypocritical shift of Time has made a few of them wonder. Make no mistake, these are White Flag Democrats, but the remarks at lunch lacked the usual obvious venom. The talk actually touched, if only for a minute or two, on biased news coverage; lots mentioned the local media blackout of the two day riot at the new high school downtown (Oraculations link is HERE, and the NBC link is HERE.

I don't think for a nano second that they don't hate Bush and love every word that Howard Dean regurgitates, it's just that there is a peep hole in their wall and some are actually looking through it.

LGF thinks the Democrats are cutting loose their crazies, I don't. I think they will be overjoyed to see Lieberman vanish leaving the crazies with an ever increasing majority. Too many in the party are openly anti-semitic, anti-Israel, and just want to cut and run. The openly racist Black Caucus is socialist, anti-white, anti semitic, and many stand for open revolution. They are taking over. The facts of the war are these, expressed today by Hanson:

And despite the heartbreak of 2,100 deaths, we are not just winning in Iraq, but on the verge of something far larger, and more permanent: not a return to the ancient caliphate or another dictatorship, but the real chance for the birth of a new Middle East that takes its place at last among responsible nations.

I have never felt that this would be possible, but reading the blogs from Iraq I am getting the sense that not only is it possible, but probable. Check out the amazing pictures of an election campaign from Iraq the model, HERE.