Mark Steyn Agrees With Me

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCXXVI

Smart man, that.

The Inimitable One looks at how the Seattle Past Intelligence Post-Intelligencer headlined the recent news about accused Iraqi agent Susan Lindauer, and moves from there to the broader context, at the Chicago Sun-Times yesterday:

.... Look, these are serious times. Week after week, more details emerge of the extraordinary number of influential Westerners, from French government ministers to the head of the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, who appear to have been in the pay of Saddam. That's, among other things, what Susan Lindauer is accused of.

But we don't have a serious press for these serious times. Boring and self-important is not the same as serious. But one reason why John Kerry calculates he can get away with damning the Bush administration as ''crooks'' and ''liars'' is because he figures he can count on the mainstream media doing what the Post-Intelligencer did — instinctively framing every issue in anti-Bush terms, no matter how ludicrously. I suppose it's not entirely impossible that one reason the Post-Intelligencer guys went with their spy-Bush linkage is because Lindauer has been accused of betraying her country and Al Gore accused Bush of ''betraying'' the country, too. But that's one more reason why Bush will win in November: The media and the Democrats are sustaining each other in their delusions....

And that, Faithful Reader, is why we have Core's Law of Old Media: We see the Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode partly because America's liberals believe their own lying propaganda.

Did you catch the minor imprecision of phrasing? The media and the Democrats are sustaining each other in their delusions. That would be, more precisely, The media branch of the Democratic Establishment and the political branch of the Democratic Establishment are sustaining each other in their delusions.

But you already knew that, right?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 03/15/04 05:52:00 PM
Categorized as Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode & Media.