Slow learners.

It's not just the Mullahs watching, it's the Iranian on the street who would like to get out from under the Mullah's oppression too. How well we tough it out in Iraq will determine for them whether or not they can depend on us to help them if decide to try to make changes on their own or if they are willing to help us if we have to go into Iran ourselves. That applies to the rest of the people of the Middle East and everywhere else people are considering democracy. The press and the left are against us winning, I think not out of ideology as much as fear of a conservative accomplishing something liberals have failed so miserably at. If we lose it'll be lost here, not there.

I wonder how hard it would be to coordinate a
"no MSM day."
Don't buy a paper, don't get a magazine, cancel your subscriptions, don't turn on the TV. Just for that one day.

Maybe if we demonstrate we're not buying, they'll stop selling.
That, and buying shares of stock at media companies and pitching fits at shareholder meetings....

vivi--

We're not buying now. Readership and viewship of MSM outlets is low and/or dropping. They don't care.

I'd rather see a constant drumbeat of on-topic messages from the Right--more democracy, more free markets, more support of our friends overseas, less government intrusion. The Right has to move from one goal to the next, always moving forward, never falling back to punt or play defensive games.

The Left handles confrontation poorly. They can't generate much more than protests full of lunatics which doesn't convince anybody not already in their camp. Their arguments are specious. The Right must have the courage of their convictions and never swerve off-message. This isn't a debate between equally-matched sides: it's one side with ideas vs. another side with nothing but slogans.

Hey guys, remeber when Evan Thomas, the Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, said that media support would be worth 15 points for Kerry.
Think about it.
These are the same people attacking our war effort against the Islamicists. Figure they give the same 15 points to the anti-war types.
The American people have the stomache to do the hard work of winning against terrorists, its our elites who don't.
We could take on the Iranians, if the administration had the guts to bypass the press and go straight to the people.
We know the Iranians are directly supporting the terrorists in Iraq. We know they are directly responsible for the deaths of Americans. We know they support terrorists throughout the war, and provide sanctuary to those who have attacked us in the past. All of these are acts of war.
I don't think it'd be as easy as Ledeen thinks it could be, as I think the jihadists would go all out to help Iran, but it'd would be a dacapitating blow to the worldwide jihadist movement. And we're gonna have to do it sooner or later, so we may as well start now.
At least we should start sending special forces in to help Iranian opposition groups cause trouble. Turnabout's fair play.

I'm not buying and I'm not watching. Circulation is down significantly for major papers. I read that they were lying about it to their advertisers. I expected arrests for fraud, but alas, it was not to be.

Not only are the mad mullahs getting encouragment from the MSM, they are also getting talking points.

"Pvt. Katrina" indeed

The money shot:

...a friend of mine who knows a great deal about the affairs of banks in the Persian Gulf tells me there is an unprecedented flow of private money out of Iran to places like Dubai, Abu Dabhi, and Qatar...

THIS is what I suspect the Bush administration is hoping for -- that the horse race between collapse/revolution and the US having to do a major military kinda thing again swings towards the collapse.

Will they go down quietly like the Soviet Union though? I think this crew is a LOT more crazed than the old Soviet aparatchicks were.

The best thing they could do is be little angles and continue to show enough cooperation with non-proliferation talks to keep the liberals in talking points. The fact is that we have a President who isn't afraid to call the Pentagon if it needs calling. If the mullah's are smart they know that too. If they push our buttons by lauching any kind of attack, that just give W an excuse to open up a can of whup ass.