Someone Get The Media A Straight Jacket And Some Thorazine

The Mainstream Media is willing to say anything and, indeed, EVERYTHING to get demonize Republicans, and get Obama elected.

Today CBS News actually scolded George Bush for celebrating the birth of Israel. The reason? Because the celebration interfered with Palestinians "mourning" of the Naqba. The Naqba is the "day of catastrophe", which is what the Palestinians call Israeli Independence day. In other words, CBS news believes Bush and the Jewish-state should not celebrate Israel because the Palestinians hate Jews.

Imagine that Americans were told not to celebrate the 4th of July because Iran hates the USA. Imagine that. It's the same thing, folks.

CBS News is either incredibly stupid and incapable of reason, or they are anti-Semites. Which do you think it is?

From CBS News:

Meanwhile, President Mr.
Bush wrapped up his visit to Israel Friday, commemorating the anniversary of
the country's creation - a visit which he used to again urge both sides of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict to negotiate a peace settlement.

Palestinians marked the 60th anniversary of Israel's creation with
demonstrations and solemn ceremonies on Thursday - a stark contrast to Israel's
joyous birthday celebrations. Palestinians refer to the anniversary as the
"nakba," Arabic for catastrophe.

Mr. Bush's embrace of Israel at a time when the Palestinians were mourning
was bound to further harm the tainted U.S. image in the Palestinian areas and
across the Arab world.

The Seattle Times, meanwhile, ran a column today attacking George Bush's statements about the danger of appeasement. The columnist wants us to know that Hitler's demands were not that unreasonable:

Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the
Knesset, here, that to “negotiate with terrorists and radicals” is
“appeasement.” The Democrats took it as a slap at Barack Obama. What bothers me
is the continual reference to Hitler and his National Socialists, particularly
the British and French accommodation at the Munich Conference of 1938.

What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the
German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed
Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small
pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a
border area of what is now the Czech Republic.

We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts
of reasons. But in 1938 it was different. Germany’s eastern and western borders
had been redrawn 19 years before—and not to its benefit. In the democracies
there was some sense of guilt with how Germany had been treated after World War
I. Certainly there was a memory of the “Great War.” In 2008, we have entirely
forgotten World War I, and how utterly unlike any conception of “The Good War”
it was. When the British let Hitler have a slice of Czechoslovakia, they were
following their historical wisdom: avoid war. War produces results far more
horrible than you expected. War is a bad investment. It is not glorious. Don’t
give anyone an excuse to start one.