For he was the man who unearthed the "I'm a Big" Dick Cheney being sensible tape; the one wherein he explains to us why an invasion of Iraq would go tits up.
I know you've seen it already but it's fun and entertaining so watch it again!
I know you've seen it already but it's fun and entertaining so watch it again!
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The hypocrisy is staggering in this video!
And yet this was the KNOWN position of Bush Sr between 1992 and the late 1990’s. Bush Sr. and his ex-staff had been quoted many times saying it, but neocons say "9/11 changed everything", well yeah, but not the reality of Iraq after a Saddam ouster!! But the use of these quotes did not seem to get much use or traction by the Democrats in 2004. Oh wait, Kerry thought the war just needed to be managed BETTER but that it would be OK and we would make Iraq safe for democracy. This type of quote would not do much good in advancing the “novel” Kerry approach.
If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then a moving picture must be worth 10,000 words. I wonder if it is on your personal computer and under your control, that it might be worth 100,000 words!! This youtube video blew me away AND I knew the old written quotes by Bush Sr.
The power advantage of video and youtube moving pictures over the written media format JUST seems staggering to me. I suspect the written main stream media is going to be eclipsed in politics in 2008. In fact I wonder if it has not already happened in the last several Presidential elections. No one pays any attention to written words of candidates or campaign platforms. In fact I defy you to find written position statements of candidates that actually say something of substance, other than: “It is morning in America and I believe in America and paraphrasing, We are Americans and great!!” It is all in the “debates” and video sound bites by the MSM. Thinking back I bet one has to go back to the seventies, maybe earlier, when the campaign platform debates at the National Republican or Democrat conventions actually meant anything. No one pays any attention to them because they are so emotionally nebulous.
But not moving pictures with sound.
Additionally with youtube's flexibility and agility and quickness to respond and to discover, I also wonder if the TV main stream media will also be left in the dust. Probably NOT because it is still hard to filter out the junk, even with Google; BUT on some things, it looks like only CNN and C-span are able to keep up. The networks are dinosaurs reinforcing the status quo. In any case thank goodness for Emmanuel Touhey!! We need to give him a medal for finding and putting on the air this 1994 C-Span video find on Cheney and his views on the Iraq war.
How about an Emmanuel Touhey and Ron Paul for President on a joint ticket in 2008!!
Denis in Missouri
PS
Has anyone commented on the similarity in the names Emmanuel Touhey and Ellsworth M. Toohey, a newspaper columnist in the Ayn Rand novel Fountainhead?
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