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How The Mainstream Media Rewards Republicans Like Chuck Hagel For Betraying Conservatives

A lot of conservatives out there are continually scratching their heads and trying to figure out why Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Hagel love to slam a shiv into the back of other conservatives as often as possible.

Well, it’s because they get fawning press coverage when they do it. Just look at this mash note from Newsweek to Chuck Hagel over his opposition to the surge. There are two different things that can inspire the mainstream press to speak this fondly about a Republican: their death and/or their betrayal of other conservatives.

Here’s how the piece, entitled “Rebel Chuck Hagel: A President in the making?” starts:

Chuck Hagel wears pain on his face. The senior senator from Nebraska earned two Purple Hearts in Vietnam, where a mine blew out his eardrums and delivered a sharp burn up the left side of his head. When he is thinking hard, his brow droops low, weighted and weary; when he smiles, his eyes slip into thin slits. His brother Tom calls this Hagel’s “running gear”—the thick mask of intensity he shows the world.

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The mainstream media is absolutely determined to turn every victory in Iraq into a defeat no matter how they have to twist things around. The latest example is the Iraqi/US victory over a Shiite cult in Najaf. Here’s the New York Times spin on this incredibly successful operation from an article called, “Missteps by Iraqi Forces in Battle Raise Questions.”

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 1:30 pm and is filed under Iraq, Liberal Education, 2008, Socially Unacceptable Republicans.
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