[Pontiac]

The more remarkable the successes on the battlefield in Iraq, the more desperate much of the media have striven to find something -- anything -- to complain about.

The reason is obvious once you realize that the majority of reporters are leftist activist. And the vast majority of their editors (their bosses, those who evaluate their work and give raises) are far left nutcases.

Sadam Hussein’s Iraq was a Fascist Dictatorship (Socialist) and therefor the leftist press of this country is obligated to defend that failed dictatorship and attack the government attempting to overthrow Sadam’s socialist paradise.

[Illbay]

My theory about this is that most media outlets are run by folks who were young hotshots in the Vietnam era--which just happens to correspond to the dizzying height of the sexual revolution--and their voluble wishing for "another Vietnam" is sort of akin to the sixty-something guy with the red convertible sportscar.

They want their youth and virility back. They look back fondly on those days when they were covering a student campus demonstration during the day, and balling a hot co-ed they'd met on the picket line that night.

This was a time of great "riches" for them, and those halcyon days having gone forever, they have this sort of "cargo-cult" mentality that if the right circumstances can be somehow recreated, that lost world will reappear like magic.