I’m taking a little creative license here (adding the word asshole) with RJHall’s very pertinent challenge to my reference to the “infamous” MoveOn.Org ad as being ill-advised. His comment caused me to do a little soul searching. I found myself wondering: in describing the ad as ill-advised was I giving my honest independent appraisal, or was I just jumping on board with the conventional wisdom (like I always bitch at the corporate media for doing)?
Happily, just like the neocons who advocated the war — (Hmmm, I wonder if I really want to use that example?) — upon due reflection, I still think I was right all along.
Yes, my problem is with the ad’s title. And, no, I don’t myself find it offensive in the least. But let’s be honest: it should have been obvious up front that a bold headline declaring, “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” was a perfect set up for the right wing noise machine to go to town with the unfair suggestion that MoveOn.org was questioning the general’s patriotism. And, yes, of course, the corporate media applies a double standard, routinely giving a pass to right wingers who engage in actual challenges to the patriotism of those they oppose. But this is the world we live in and it’s the one we have to navigate in fighting for change.
By opening the door to the bad guys to create just this sort of stink, the ad gave Bush some breathing room he didn’t deserve.
Life ain’t fair folks. If we want to change business as usual in the Beltway, we have to be smart.
None of this changes the fact (as I’ve said before) that the Senate’s action in censuring the ad was stupid and that those Democrats who voted that way were both gutless and politically naïve. But while I remain a supporter of MoveOn.org, I do think they blew it with this one.
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