Damn, Greenwald's Good

Here, Glenzilla eviscerates the talking point that an ad in a newspaper was suddenly going to turn every American backyard into a Gathering of Eagles. Turns out that nobody liked the war before Gen. Petraeus and Bush opened their mouths, and nobody likes it after, either, regardless of what the chattering class says.

In their world, the Republicans are always ascendent, Bush is always the Strong Leader, Democrats are always the sorry losers captive to their destructive Leftist extremists, and Americans are aching to support the War. They have been predicting endlessly that, any day now, all of this will be true again.

They actually thought that a newspaper ad was going to transform deeply entrenched views about the Republicans and the War because their friends Ed Gillispie and Tony Snow and Sean Hannity told them it would. The Rise of Petraeus the Good and the unmasking of the Evil MoveOn Left was going to change everything, back to its rightful place. It changed nothing, including the media itself, which will seize on some other event a few weeks from now to declare yet again the latest surging comeback for the President, the war and the right-wing faction which has followed him.

The biggest reason I feel confident about Democratic chances in 2008 is that nobody believes a word that Republicans say anymore. It's another one of the legacies of Bush.