MIA: MSM call to Bush that he HAS NOT commented on Northern/Camp Casey

[Whoa_Nelly]

Beyond DU, where is the MSM wake up call to the CIC to remind him that, once again, he needs to remark on an event? This has happened before with Bush finally giving some sort of sound byte AFTER the MSM has asked why he has been silent.

Silence is the same as being in agreement and condoning an action. Or as George Bernard Shaw put it so well:
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."


The pResident doesn't have to agree with Sheehan, but what about the deliberate action of Northern, albeit a misguided notion of protest, and the disrespect shown to our fallen troops and those who are openly mourning those losses?

[achtung_circus]

1. Dumbya is missing an opportunity here.

It might even be a way out for him. That he isn't using this advantage indicates one of several things, all bad (for him).
1 He fears even the appearance of backing down.
2 KKarl Rove's vaunted politcal acumen is limited to slander.
3 He simply doesn't care.

others I haven't thought of, but no good reasons theat I CAN think of.

[katsy]

2. Oh but he has...

he's sent his trained maggots to smear her.

[whistle]

3. Like Nixon who met with Kent State students in the oval office...

...to talk about what?

<snip from Time archive>

At his televised press conference on the eve of the Washington demonstration, the President looked understandably weary and nervous. Outside the White House gates, students were already gathering. They filled the warm evening with the refrain of the John Lenon mantra: "All we are saying is give peace a chance." Inside, the President told the press and the nation: "Those who protest want peace. I know that what I have done will accomplish the goals that they want. I agree with everything they are trying to accomplish."

Nixon was trying his best to reconstruct consensus, to show that if he was not embittered by the protest movement, neither was he cowed. He also attempted to display flexibility. He was not about to muzzle anyone, he said, but he counseled his subordinates that "when the action is hot, keep the rhetoric cool." He defended the Cambodia decision anew, but he also added that the troops would be coming out faster than anticipated. While not withdrawing from his tactical rationale for the Cambodian venture, Nixon gave an impression that was very different from the belligerent patriotism with which he announced the foray.

Singular Odyssey. Before dawn the next morning, Nixon impulsively wakened his valet and set off with a clutch of Secret Service men for the Lincoln Memorial, where he talked for an hour with a group of drowsy but astonished demonstrators. His discussion rambled over the sights of the world that he had seen -- Mexico City, the Moscow ballet, the cities of India. When the conversation turned to the war, Nixon told the students: "I know you think we are a bunch of so and so's." He said to them, the President recalled Chamberlain was the greatest man living and that Winston Churchill was a madman. It was not until years later that I realized that Churchill was right." He confessed afterwards: "I doubt if that got over."

Before he left, Nixon said: "I know you want to get the war over. Sure you came here to demonstrate and shout your slogans on the ellipse. That's all right. Just keep it peaceful. Have a good time in Washington, and don't go away bitter."

The singular odyssey went on. Nixon and his small contingent wandered through the capital, then drove to the Mayflower Hotel for a breakfast of corned beef hash and eggs -- his first restaurant meal in Washington since he assumed power. Then he withdrew to his study in the Executive Office Building to sit out the day of protest.

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