When the media claims the bin Laden tape is good for Bush they are parroting the spin of the Bush camp.  And when we agree - we are enabling this distorion - as the NYT proves with itslatest article "Terrorist Tape, Political Angst".  

The dominant theme of the Bush campaign and presidency has been the administration's efforts to bring terrorists to justice and prevent them from obtaining weapons of mass destruction.  With bin Laden's tape we are reminded that President Bush has failed to bring bin Laden to justice - less than a week after we learned that the administration failed to protect 380 tons powerful explosives used to produce missile warheads, detonate nuclear weapons and destroy commercial aircraft.  

And yet the media and some Dems blindly parrot the spin that the tape somehow "welcome news" for the president.

This is Orwellian logic at its worst.  We should be confronting the Bush administration and the media when they make this claim  I've had it with this kind of distorted logic - and if we let it go unquestioned now, we may have to hear it for the next four years.
 

It is essential that we keep the media's attention locked on the missing explosives.  Bush has made keeping weapons out of the hands of terrorists the central theme of his presidency and his campaign.  This story demonstrates his failure to accomplish what he says is his most important task.  Our media, however, is easily distracted - with Rehnquist's cancer and Ashlee Simpson's lip sync - so we have to keep their eye on the ball.  Write letters to the editor and/or e-mail news offices:

NETAUDR@abc.com?subject=WORLD NEWS TONIGHT

nightly@nbc.com

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

Any suggestions on the best way for a lawyer with a little election law experience to help leading up to, on, and perhaps after the election?

CNN.com published a story confirming Gen. Sanchez's concerns regarding "shortage of spare parts, lack of protective gear and poor readiness rates for Army weapons in Iraq." They confirmed the problems with another memo by Sanchez's replacement Gen. Casey.

See:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/prez.iraq/index.html

The article was among CNN.com's "Top Stories" for about an hour and then it disappeared completely.  Now I can only find it using a search.  I guess they needed to make room for this one: "Britney Spears taking time off to 'chill'"