Tucker Carlson is still wrong.

Tucker Carlson is at it once again. His latest essay; “What if Bush is right about Iraq”, which can be found here and here, backhandedly supports the notion that we may just be on the right path with Iraq. He writes rather tellingly, “There's a consensus among the media that the war was a mistake from the beginning and that Bush's handling of it has been inept. I share that view. As a result — and also because Iraq stories get terrible ratings — Thursday's elections were all but ignored in cable news and under-covered in print. It will take months to know if this was a good editorial decision. If the elections turn out to represent a peaceful lull between outbreaks of violence and chaos, the scant coverage will be justified. But if this turns out to be the point at which Iraq begins to get its act together, we'll have underplayed a huge story.” He continues, “…I had a long e-mail exchange about it today with a reporter friend of mine. He's a conservative who, partly based on what he saw first-hand in Iraq, has become violently disenchanted with the Bush administration's handling of the war. Here's how he concluded his last e-mail: "If Bush ends up being right about Iraq, it will be through luck and accident and God's grace, not through any skillful calculation of his own. I tend to think my friend is right. But it almost doesn't matter. A disaster in Iraq would be a disaster for the United States. Pray for success, no matter who's responsible for it.”

Are we to honestly believe that you have a “conservative reporter” friend that spent time in Iraq and is now “violently disenchanted” with the Bush Administration’s handling of the war? Let me remind you, that on its own that statement does not mean a damn thing. Without giving us more about who this conservative reporter is we have no idea if this means that the war is not going as he would like to see it, or if he believes the administration is bungling its PR job. Yet you use it to be the hammer that seemingly strikes the death knell for the war, since even, “conservative reporters” think the war is lost. Until you can name this “source” we have to assume that he does not exist, or if he does he like many reporters hide in the International Zone sending out dispatches about the daily body count because to do otherwise would be too dangerous.

So lets see, you admit that you disagree with the war and you feel that Bush has handled it badly, and we are to believe you when you say that you might be concerned that the story of the Iraqi elections was underplayed? Tucker you are an ASSHAT! You know as well as I do that the Iraqi Election Day story was terribly underreported, you even tell us why it was underreported for good news about Iraq is news you do not want printed. You want us to believe that Iraq stories get terrible ratings, if that were the case then every one of the MSM’s lead headlines would not be about Iraq. What you are really saying is that the Iraq story is a truly remarkable one that we should be covering but because it pains us so to admit that Bush is not the idiot we want him to be we can’t report on the successes. Is it any wonder that newspaper subscriptions and television viewership of news programs is declining? The simple truth is; if the Election Day violence is only a temporary one, it is your silence on the successes in Iraq that will have facilitated the resurgence of violence. Every story the MSN prints that is negative in its outlook only fuels the insurgency into committing greater and greater acts of barbarity to gain more and more support for the US to leave before it gets even worse.


The only rhetoric being used here Mr. Carlson is on your part, for it is you sir that is using fine-sounding but insincere or empty language to describe your belief that George W. Bush is an idiot and that you and your friends in the media are the educated elite. Success in Iraq will not be found through the Grace of God, but rather by the hard work of brave American’s and Iraqi’s in uniform that see first hand the righteousness of their actions, even if it is done with out the help of the MSM and their rhetoric.