Reply #25: RW Talking Point Of The Week [View All]

I actually agreed with Evan Bayh's take on this non-scandal this morning. He, too, said he thought the ad was over the top (how DLC'ish of him) but then took Wolfie to task for all the time spent on this crap and not on the substance of the ad...the fact a General was being used by politicians to sell politics. He refused to condmen MoveOn or bite the "shouldn't Democrats distance themselves". Bayh said "MoveOn is 4 million individuals...why would the Democrats want to distance itself from those people"...the issue in a nutshell.

Now I'd be curious if the corporate media...instead of biting the usual Right Wing talking point, would conduct a poll and see how many people agreed that Petreus was going us a snow job...and if they were "offended" by the MoveOn ad...methinks you'd see a partisan divide.

While MoveOn takes heat, zero is ever said about the Right Wing astroturf operations...like the ones from Ari Fleischer/Bob Perry's propaganda machine. But, they won't since all the major corporate cable networks have taken this groups money and want more. A double-standard, that unfortunately, even good Democrats like Elizabeth Edwards couldn't see through.