Liberal Media Blasts Bush and Defends Kerry, Oh Wait

Here is a clip from CNN that blasts Bush and defends Kerry's remarks. The wingnuts, such as the Cornbelt Wacko Boys, might think this is just the so called Liberal media at work again, except that 2 pundits attacking Bush, the Iraq occupation, and defending Kerry are conservatives Christopher Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan. Both Hitchens and Sullivan were for the Iraq War at the beginning and were Republicans. Neither is true today. Here is Hitchens' take...

ZAHN: Do you think they're (Cheney and Rumsfield) both doing a fantastic job, as the president said?

HITCHENS: Well, the word fantastic relates to fantasy, doesn't it? I mean, to say that's something is fantastic or fabulous is to say that it's imaginary.

ZAHN: So, is that you're saying it is?

HITCHENS: I think it is in the president's mind. Yes, just as he's imagined that John Kerry insulted men and women in uniform when he was trying to make a joke at the president's expense. As I said, it's been a weird and grotesque week, not the least rhetorically.

And here is some of what Sullivan said...

ZAHN: Andrew Sullivan, did the president make a mistake and will that drive some of these voters away from Republicans in a tight contest?

ANDREW SULLIVAN, AUTHOR, "THE CONSERVATIVE SOUL": Well, look, here's a president who said that Michael Brown was doing a heck of a job with Katrina. And now he's the president saying that Donald Rumsfeld has done a fantastic job in Iraq. It's the same denial. If you believe that Michael Brown did a heck of a job with Katrina, then you maybe believe that Donald Rumsfeld has done a great job in Iraq.

It's unhinged. In my view, it suggests this man has lost his mind. I mean, no one objectively can look at the way this war has been conducted, whether you were for it, as I was, or against, and see that it's been done well. It's a disaster. And for him to say it's a fantastic job, suggests that this president really has lost it. I'm sorry. There is no other way to say it.

And here's to all those Republicans still living in Bush's fantasy world.