Two Wars of the Worlds
07/04/05
Planned or not, the sepulchral silence of Bush's military audience was the perfect dazed response to what was literally a summer rerun. The president gave almost the identical televised address, albeit with four fewer 9/11 references, at the Army War College in Pennsylvania in May 2004. It's so tired that this time around even the normally sympathetic Drudge Web site gave higher billing to reviews of 'War of the Worlds.' Fewer TV viewers tuned in than for any primetime speech in Bush's presidency. A good thing too, since so much of what he said was, as usual, at odds with reality...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/04/opinion/edrich.php
from International Herald Tribune, by Frank Rich
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Planned or not, the sepulchral silence of Bush's military audience was the perfect dazed response to what was literally a summer rerun. The president gave almost the identical televised address, albeit with four fewer 9/11 references, at the Army War College in Pennsylvania in May 2004. It's so tired that this time around even the normally sympathetic Drudge Web site gave higher billing to reviews of 'War of the Worlds.' Fewer TV viewers tuned in than for any primetime speech in Bush's presidency. A good thing too, since so much of what he said was, as usual, at odds with reality...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/04/opinion/edrich.php
from International Herald Tribune, by Frank Rich
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 5. Jul, 16:48
