Driven Crazy by Distractions

Posted by Mary Mancini on September 21, 2007 under Uncategorized |

You probably think I’m talking about O.J. or Brittney or Phil Spector. Wish I were. I’m talking about faux legitimate distractions manufactured by right-wing talk radio with the goal of sucking in even the most serious of us. Say for instance, U.S. Senators. One would think the men and women of this lofty body would have better things to worry about than a newspaper ad. No. While people are dying in Iraq our Senators spent valuable time debating and then disavowing MoveOn.org for their rather silly, but ultimately harmless, General Petraeus ad. Seriously. Borsage sums it up:

It doesn’t matter what you think of the Moveon.org ad or title. Individually Democratic politicians can say whatever they like. But we’re trying to end a foreign policy catastrophe in Iraq. People are getting killed. Billions are being squandered. Our security is being eroded; our military weakened. Minority Republicans are blocking majority support for bringing the troops home. They are denying troops a guarantee of decent home rotations. That Senate Democrats would allow them to consume the time and the attention of the Senate and hijack that debate to vote for criticizing an ad by an independent group is simply craven and foolish.

And you would think the President of the United States would have something else to attend to:

I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. Military.

But even he continues to play politics during this national security crisis:

And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad.

Here it is in cartoon form:

And is it really a coincidence that the last three months have been spent glorifying Petraeus and his credentials? File under: You Must be Freakin’ Kidding Me.