Real Questions

From Hullabaloo, here's a link to Real Voices, which is trying to raise money to run some very high quality and hard hitting political advertisements questioning Bush's Iraq debacle.

Apparently at least three ads exist, but only one is presently featured on the web site: Cindy Sheehan talks about the death of her son, the pain it caused, and the hurt she felt when realizing how Bush rushed to war without leveling with the American people. According to Digby, Sheehan's use of her free speech rights to question the war has resulted in wingnuts branding her a traitor. Then said wingnuts proceeded to steal candy from babies, viciously kick puppies, and throw elderly people to the ground...

OK, so the last sentence is just me guessing. But I wouldn't be surprised.

One of the ads not yet featured on the site apparently does what I suggested a few posts ago--it asks the very obvious question of why would Bush be so crass as to warble "bring 'em on" when it became apparent that we were seeing the beginnings of an Iraqi resistance movement:

Another features a California mother named Jane Bright, who remains livid about Bush's rash "Bring 'em on!" challenge. "Mr. Bush," she says, "I have no way of knowing whether the insurgent who killed my son ever heard your foolish taunt. But thanks to you, Mr. President, I have the rest of my life to wonder about it."

When it takes a grieving mother to ask why a president could be so outrageously stupid, it's a clear sign that the press no longer functions as anything remotely resembling an independent institution. We might as well call them TASS and put them on the government payroll.