BCT Editorial – 10/26/06

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Realists; Editorial; Beaver County Times; October 26, 2006.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject editorial.

“It’s hard for the GOP to label Democrats as ‘Defeatocrats’ when well-respected Republicans are starting to question the Bush administration’s foreign policies.”

[RWC] “[W]ell-respected” by whom and for what?

“Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., told The Associated Press, ‘We’re on the verge of chaos (in Iraq), and the current plan is not working.’

“On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the Bush administration is going to have to consider direct talks with North Korea regarding its development of nuclear weapons.

“Graham, Lugar, Specter and others aren’t defeatists. They’re realists who have no use for the Bush administration’s truthiness, which political comedian Stephen Colbert has defined as the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.”

[RWC] As I noted in a critique of a Post-Gazette editorial, you become a “respected” Republican by agreeing with Democrats.

During the last two years, this is at least the fourth time an editorial has referenced either “The Daily Show” or its spin-off, “the Colbert Report.”

Finally, if you read Times editorials with a discerning eye, you know the Times has nerve accusing anyone of “truthiness.”