Blue Truth, Red Truth

[TrueAmerican]

Time.com is subscription for this story, but I got it thru Time Canada. ;)


more here
http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=001&part=1

Blue Truth, Red Truth
The CBS flap is one more sign of the ferocious struggle between political partisans to see the world their way

By Nancy Gibbs




America has long been a house divided. But the two sides have never been further apart. One side lives in the world where President Bush, whose bold wartime leadership has made America safer, survived an ambush last week from that liberal lion Dan Rather, who tried to swing the race with a bunch of phony documents trashing Bush’s National Guard service, only to have the charges blow up in his face.

The other side lives in the world where Rather, the Tiffany network’s honored heir to venerable newsman Walter Cronkite, spoke truth to power, made a true if perhaps flawed case that Bush shirked his duty more than 30 years ago, and is by implication unfit to serve as Commander in Chief today.

[Kadie]

1. Hey, DU is mentioned...

more...
Thus do the most important issues unfold, not just across the gray pages of the serious papers but in a foaming free-for-all in which every charge, however fair or false, gets BlackBerried and instant messaged in a Darwinian democracy of ideas. At a rally in Huntington, West Virginia, last week, 3-year-old Sophia Parlock dissolved into tears after having her Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters. The picture was mailed out by the Republican National Committee after conservative Internet pundit Matt Drudge spotted a wire photo. The Democrats meanwhile sent around the story of a mother—her son was killed in Iraq—being arrested at a Laura Bush speech in Hamilton, New Jersey, when she tried to interrupt the First Lady. As for that little girl with the sign, the Democratic Underground posted a story claiming that her father is a Bush campaign operative who used his child to create a partisan photo-op, having done the same with a different kid four years ago against Al Gore. No incident is too small to produce its own parallel truths. And the party e-mail lists make sure that these truths make their way into every Red or Blue mailbox.

http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=001&part=2

[lindy45]

2. they can't handle the truth

mmmmmmm......

just taking a breath of fresh air.

so nice to be here

went to the freerepublc site...had to leave so I wouldn't puke

it is truly mindboggling the lengths repugs go to