Billmon:
Bernhard over at Moon of Alabama took a stroll through the White House web site and found no less than eighteen of them (all of which no doubt will be scrubbed from the site by morning.)
I disagree a bit with Billmon over this one. First, not me, but the whitehouse.gov search-engine did find 153 occurrences of "stay the course" – all in official documents and all caught with one simple search. About a third to half of those are direct utterings of Scrub, his wife or Cheney. I only copiedy 18 of those. There are many more of these. But just how long can you bear to walk through such crap?
Unlike Billmon I don’t think they will scrub the site. They’ll just further try to redefine the meaning of "stay the course". Dan Froomkin documented today how that effort is proceeding:
And on Friday, in what I suspect is the first time in briefing-room history, Snow banged his head against the podium in exasperation with a reporter who was trying to get him to confront some of his own contradictions.
Nobody said it’s easy, but banging his head will not deminish Snow’s abilities for a real debate like the above with the usual press room trash – so why shouldn’t he continue to so so?
As long as the media keeps reporting the official talk without taking a position in favor of reality, no facts will matter. If "stay the course" now suddenly means to dissolve the US Army, who would dare to report otherwise?
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BTW:
Where is that Repub victory party on Nov. 8 taking place? I could use a free drink by then …