When Is A Bump Not A Bump
The word “bump” is quickly losing its currency in this campaign. Until now, a bump in presidential politics is when one candidate or the other has a jump of five percent or more in the polls due to some specific event. The first bumps usually reported come after the conventions.
But now the MSM is reporting that McCain got a bump from his Saddleback performance. But what they mean is not a bumb in the polls, but a self-reported “bump” by the McCain campaign in the number of people who are calling. Now there is an objective measure? Hardly, so why is the media hyping this this way?
Posted: August 20th, 2008 under Best of the Blogs.
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Comment from Max
Time: August 20, 2008, 1:25 pm
There is another little nasty media ploy about the Georgian war. Here is what I have written elsewher. But this rumor has been picked up by the BBC.
Somebody is playing games folks. And in the background is nuclear fire. Never forget that.
The Georgians started it. No question. There is another whole fictitious line of events that has the South Ossetians ATTACKING the Georgian military, The Georgians graciously asking for a cease fire and withdrawing, and then the dastardly Russians attacking.
That one is totally false. A Russian peace keeping battalion was in the South Ossetian capital by prior arrangement along with a Georgian battalion. The Georgians suddenly attacked the Russian from close quarters. The Georgians used GRAD rocket launchers on the civilian sections of the South Ossetian capital. It is an area weapon, not a precision one,
What some of these red Herring pieces of news are trying to do is to try to distract us from the real reason as to “WHY” Georgia started a suicidal attack. It is my contention that some political persons in America gave Saakashvili assurance that the US would back Georgia with military power.
What is gradually seeping into the Georgian consciousness is that America is a complex nation with many centers of power, and even if the President orders something, it does not always happen.
For a good time line and analysis go to:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401360.html
Neither Georgia, Russia or the US comes out of the mess looking very good. But the conclusion is that the US will not go to nuclear war over Gerogia.
Comment from timr
Time: August 21, 2008, 9:49 am
Max, we damn well better not.
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