| European media are sending correspondents all over the United States in an effort to delve into the American psyche. . "We want to understand why so many people are still on Bush's side; it's a kind of mystery to us,"
Only a handful of U.S. media outlets are followed in Europe, and they are uniformly the most liberal... the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN International, which when it comes to Bush might as well be Al Jazeera. If all you knew about the U.S. election was what you saw in the NY Times or on CNN, you'd wonder why anyone was for Bush, too. It doesn't sound possible that this horrible fellow, who hasn't done anything right, could have even one supporter. Especially when the suave, debonaire, brilliant, and sophisticated leftist in the race is a famous war hero to boot. Let's give these European reporters some credit for at least crawling out of their cocoons to come talk to some people that aren't on the party circuit in upper Manhattan. That's something our own reporters haven't done yet, except to try to round up the three liberal residents of Junction Switch, WY and present them to us as the Voice of Rural America. |
Rather than criticizing these people, we ought to be applauding them. They are getting off their duffs, flying over here, and trying to figure this out. Our own reporters can't figure out why anyone would be for Bush either, but you don't see ours venturing into flyover country to understand it. Instead all they do is scream at us day and night: "Kerry good, Bush bad."