I have to disagree with D. Shechter in an attempt to balance what drives red and blue pundits in the Plame affair. Take me for example. I am not a pundit. But I have been driven into an almost zombied state surfing every iota this Sunday afternoon chasing the Cooper rev's. My health is suffering as is my grasp on daily reality. I'll recover tomorrow no doubt as the working week unfolds but still why the binge? I consider it my due. After years of numbing exposure to what passes as informed news and infotainment and endless every-unfolding new distraction even among my close compadres, here finally, here I have found a Gary Cooper (Fitzgerald), a LaCarre plot beyond his wildest, a reckoning of unparalleled preportions, a connection to all that has happened to all of us in the past four years post 9/11 and the suffering of so many in the mid-east. I wholly disagree of your statement that what transfixes us is the notion that this story is all about us. It is about Iraq as Rich points out and you contradict yourself by concurring. It is about the Media and our major news outlets and its almost post-modern, de-constructive failure since 9/11 and beyond. It is about a democracy losing its underpinnings of truth. It is about quaint notions of what serves National Security and Foreign Policy initiatives so critical at this juncture of American history. Am I confused to the "arcane" facts and twists? No. It is really quite a simple affair at its face value alone. The administration outed a CIA agent with a NOC cover and her network working on WMD issues. Who, when and why isn't even that difficult to follow apart from discounting the laughable spin the RNC is totally engaged with disemminating. Just because some feel the need that the rest of our somnambulent nation needs to get up to speed before we can truly apprehend the political consequences is truly a mute point. This resides in the hands of a Grand Jury and a diligent prosecutor who somehow has summoned up an alternative but equally powerful reality beyond our disfunctional public arena. This microcosm, or shall I say remnent, of what was once a real democracy in awe of self-evident truths may, just may be the perfect prescription for a new foothold for our republic. This Plamegate or whatever you want to call it has been waiting and germinating like a mutant in a toxic waste dump ready to turn in rage, out of control, ripping through the vast ideological machinery of what spawned it, and I for one don't want to miss a moment of it. The fact that it will unhinge the rhetoric of the right to such a monumental reaction and overreach will be purgative as the rest of the nation will discover the nut-job's untenable positionings and shear lack of any grasp of reality that they have cast themselves from. And you seem to appeal for balance. This is way beyond balance, Shechter. Even the notion of "balance" has been tainted by our experience of what that means to the other side of the aisle. At least let's adhere to the fact's. As they stand, even now, it looks real bad for the Bushies. Using Coulter as a the shrill counterpart to the left's indulgences (which for God's sakes is thier due after these six years of a lapdog we call a media) obscures the difference. And allowing that Coulter has a point to be made about the annoying tendancy of the left to appropriate Bush's and the Repug's values such as patriotism as a tool doesn't cut any mustard with me. Since when are these soley the property of the right? The Right aren't the only American's on this continent. And making the case that this is the most un-american administration in history by throwing their own self-invented notions of what it means to be American's in their faces is, as Rove puts it, fair game. What we are experiencing and will experience in the days to come this summer over this investigation will uncork forces that smile at the quaint notion we should keep our heads and pursue objective, reasoned, fair and balanced approaches to the Big Lie. Let this monster go by the tail before it shreds your own notions of preportion and graspings of truth, and by God stop the lousy comparisons of how both the left and the right have lost theirs.

by edsdet (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Sunday, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:34:30 PM