October 12, 2004

The New York Times bests the Swiftvets

Not intentionally, of course, but ironically, they did. In Matt Bai's article in the NYTimes Magazine, Bai managed to get Kerry to a)say that he would prosecute the War on Al Qaeda little differently than a call-girl service, and b)that Kerry did not believe that it was possible to liberalize the politics in the middle east. Take a look at this paragraph:

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

It is pretty obvious that Kerry doesn't really believe that we are at war. In fact, I doubt Matt Bai believes we are at war either, nor do the entire NYT editorial board. Not only do none of the above believe we are at war, but neither do they think that the American public as a whole believes that we are at war. Otherwise, I doubt that the NYT would have printed this paragraph. As we have seen, the mainstream media will obscure stories that are bad for Kerry, and promote stories that are bad for Bush.(Witness the two week blackout of the Swiftvets story vs the immediate acceptance of the premise behind Ra^thergate--only to be forced to retract the story later.

But that isn't the only foot that Kerry inserts into his mouth, with the unintentional help of the New York Times:

Kerry, too, envisions a freer and more democratic Middle East. But he flatly rejects the premise of viral democracy, particularly when the virus is introduced at gunpoint. ''In this administration, the approach is that democracy is the automatic, easily embraced alternative to every ill in the region,'' he told me. Kerry disagreed. ''You can't impose it on people,'' he said. ''You have to bring them to it. You have to invite them to it. You have to nurture the process.''

Of course, this brings to mind how FDR and Truman "nurtured" Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan's nascent democracy in the early forties. Such nurturing, of course, brought by such instruments of caring as the M4 Sherman Rubber Nipple Dispenser and the B-17 Flying WetNurse. It is an amazingly pacifist worldview, and one that has been proven false by repeated successes that the US has had in introducing liberty at gunpoint, directly and indirectly, in nearly all of Europe, Panama, Grenada, and most recently, now in Afghanistan.

However, the remarkable thing about this article is that I seriously doubt anyone at the New York Times seriously considered how damaging Kerry's remarks would have been to his candidacy. They simply thought that Kerry was stating a basic truth. "Of course, we can't introduce democracy at gunpoint. Of course the War on Terror isn't a war. Why should anyone debate this? Only that moronic chimp in the White House doesn't understand it."

That is the real irony of the thing. The New York Times published this article to give Kerry a platform to make him look good. However, because the New York Times is so liberal, they themselves didn't even realize how poorly his own remarks would make him look to the world outside West 43rd Street. Yet, this fawning article has helped hammer the nails shut on Kerry's electoral coffin, and they did it in a way that is far more effective than any of the ads the Swiftvets have placed on the air.

Mark Steyn put it best--the press loves John Kerry, and because if it, they are giving George W. Bush the election.

Posted by John Bono at October 12, 2004 12:25 PM| Link Cosmos

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