John Gibson Neglects to Mention Republicans Who Oppose Bush Surge Plan

On Thursday's Big Story host John Gibson and White House Press Secretary and former FOX News employee, Tony Snow, discussed President Bush's speech. Gibson started off by saying that "the President's big job now" is to "sell, sell, sell" his planned escalation of the Iraq war. Bush's first stop on his sales junket was Fort Benning, Georgia where he delivered a lackluster speech in front of a less-than-enthusiastic audience of military men and women. Gone are the days of spontaneous chants and cheering. This could be because a Military Times poll shows that Bush's approval rating among the military has sunk to 35%.

Gibson skewed the report by using positive buzz words for the President and negative buzz words for the Democrats. "While the troop increase is significant, the President's political opponents are playing it as over-the-top," Gibson said. "The President says he wants to win, succeed, prevail. The Democrats seemed to want to hear the words lost, so let's go home."

Gibson then dragged out the same stale old talking points, i.e. the Democrats have no plan and the "left wing mainstream media" is beating up on the President again. He cited only The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Los Angeles Times.

According to the Kansas City Star, they are Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), Sen.Norm Coleman (R-MN), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH). In addition, Colonel Oliver North (FOX News Military Analyst) and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-MS) have serious doubts about the efficacy of Bush's surge proposal.

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A winning plan.

What a contrast the other night...I flipped between MSNBC, CNN and Faux following asshat's speech. While Scarbie, Tweety, Wolfie and KO were ripping the speach a fifteenth, well-deserved asshole, on Faux they were debating the Duke Lacrosse mess and hoping there'd be a Natalie Holloway update coming up.

An interesting factoid is how Faux's ratings have declined with the popularity of this invasion and the boooosh regime. Ailes knows Iraq is a loser for his fact-free network...it's better to stick with tried and true scandals and rumor mongering and hope to keep the remaining wingnut audience from dialing elsewhere.