It's funny how the news washes over you, in dribs and drabs, marking a day forever in your memory.
Bill Clinton, who says an awful lot, now says the Democrats are wasting time. Barbaro, the long suffering pony, is spending a second day in relative stability. The New York Times has left no question concerning their allegiance in the war on terror, choosing the terrorists, of course. and somewhere, out there in the hazy ozone, both John Kerry and ann Coulter are pleased as punch with this final outright admission.
The Times article, The Real agenda, is an amazing compilation of fiction, innuendo and outright lies, cobbled together, anonymously, under Editorial, with good reason, once the whole thing is read and poorly digested.
Most egregiously, it makes the bold statement that the Bush administration used, and seemed to be waiting for, 9/11 in order to grasp near dictatorial powers, "with the horror of 9/11 became an excuse to take up this cause behind the shield of americans' deep insecurity."
Oh, boy, and they go on to lay it on pretty thick including the hundreds of "innocents" held at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoners we've "killed" while in custody, how american agents "disappear" people, and how Dick Cheney's lessons from Watergate were all about the need for more and more executive power.
So here we are in 2006, and it seems like we are a world away from the summer of 1948, Joe DiMaggio, his .320 batting average, his 594 at bats, and the very idea that the New York Times, at the height of Joltin' Joe's career, would side openly with america's enemies and damn the President of the United States in a time of war and accuse him of running a rump dictatorship because he's, say it ain't so, Joe, a Republican.
Babe Ruth died on august 16th, 1948, he'd lay in state at Yankee Stadium, during those same hot summer days of DiMaggio's triumph, and more than 100,000 people trooped through to give the immortal Babe a proper send off, and thousands more surrounded St. Patrick's Cathedral for his funeral mass.
Some say that a whole generation of baseball and maybe even of america passed away with the Babe. Maybe it did, but it sure indicated a slide toward the oblivion we're awash in today.
Yep, there's sure been a real time warp for the survivors.
Baseball players in suits and ties, reticent heroes, years before the steroids explosion, with life on the field driven by beer and hot dogs, papers full of hero worship, columns by Grantland Rice in New York's Herald-Tribune, Presidents held with some modicum of regard, especially when the chips were down and enemies were actually, with malice aforethought, killing us.
Today we're playing on a different ball field altogether.
a country that came together when the Gipper died, when Lou Gehrig said he was the luckiest man alive, after Pearl Harbor, when the Babe passed on, when North Korea swarmed across the 38th Parallel, when the sad drums beat for John Kennedy, is now cheered toward capitulation and is offered treason in daily headlines by its greatest newspaper.
Enemies at home, cowardly senators, newspapers aligned with our sworn foes, with their editors openly castigating our leadership, maligning our troops in the field, trumpeting war crimes before the investigations are finished and most despicably, providing full and complete descriptions of our most secret operations to all and sundry in detailed and published reports.
Familiar with the loss of a debate or a game, in our hubris, we have forgotten what it's like to lose a war, for we have not had our homeland sacked since Sherman's march to the sea.
We neglect, at our peril, the memories of the burning of Washington D.C., the predations of British General Banastre Tarleton in the Carolinas, the wholesale destruction of the Civil War, and we would be wise to note Hizbollah and the rocket attacks on Israel, just as we must never forget the milestones of terror culminating with the 9/11/2001.
Some say that the New York Times is merely reflecting the new worldly and more progressive and wildly popular views of the liberal cognoscenti. Woe betide us if they are.
Others claim that Mr. Sulzberger is merely the spoiled offspring of a publishing kingpin gone bad, awash in far left ideology as he fritters away his inheritance, his newspaper, and what remains of its tattered reputation while pursuing bad press and poor business decisions.
But regardless of the motivation, the reality remains — the New York Times has become the leading cheerleader for the triumph of terror over the United States.
and whatever the outcome of the war on terror, let us never forget the dreadful activities of arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? The nation turns its lonely eyes to you and to the nation that once watched you play. The country that laughed, cried, and played ball. The america which clearly recognized its enemies, stood up and fought back, unafraid, until victory was achieved.
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? I'd like to pick up my box seat tickets.
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