by Casey and Steve Young
Y'gotta give Bill O'Reilly his props.
Mr. Independent.
Mr. If They Don't Find WMD I'll Never Trust President Bush Again
Mr. Ignore 1800 Killed During August In Iraq
Mr. I Know More Than You About War Strategy, General Clarke
Mr. "If Saddam Would Have Let the Inspectors In We Wouldn't Be In This Mess" In The Face Of The Fact That He Did Let Them In And It Was President Bush Who Told Them To Leave
Even on vacation he's working hard for the Folks™
...and the Bush Administration.
Allowing his vacation fill ins opine to a dwindling fan base, Bill's only outlet to sell his "watching out for you and me" tête-à-tête this past week was his weekly newspaper and web column, and he used it to pummel the evil Mainstream Elite Liberal Media and Democratic "cut and runners" while praising a stalwart President for "trying to buy time with an aggressive push against the murderous insurgents."
And he only needed a couple sentences to set lucidity back 2,000 years.
"The stakes in Iraq are enormous, and that point has been consistently hidden from the American public by a media that despises the Bush administration and is openly rooting for a Democratic president in 2008."
Damn you again, you biased, American-hating, Democratic-loving media! Thank God for Bill. At least there's one place to get the facts as the Folks need them.
And Bill would be 100 % right if it weren't for the fact that he is 100% wrong.
How do I know? I could say I needed to build a research staff equal to Bill's cracked Factor research team to track down the facts, but I decided to go one better: my twelve year old son Casey.
His sister Kelly was too busy at the mall with friends so Case dove in on his own.
He placed "stakes" and "Iraq" in his little search engine to see if the media was truly hiding the high stakes in Iraq. It wasn't easy. It took almost .29 seconds before Casey came up with 5 million hits. He had to dig deep to find the answer....on the first page of results.
Casey wanted to list the 5 million but it's Dad's column so we compromised at some swell examples.
Mainstream Liberal Media
Liberal Liberal Media
Hate-filled Smear Site Web Media
Okay. Maybe these were just a case of Casey being lucky. Then he decided to raise the stakes on the "stakes" search.
"Hey, Dad. Just for fun, let's see if those terrorist-supporting Al Jazeera bad guys are hiding how high the stakes are in Iraq."
A dad just swells up in pride when his son shows off the same snark and sarcasm as his old man.
"Please, son. Al Jazeera? Mr. O'Reilly would never overlook such a hate America, terrorist-aid and supporter organization. I mean, if they actually printed anything that mentioned the stakes were high in Iraq, he would look like a complete ass. And that's not the No-spinster I've come to know. "
"Ple-e-e-e-ease."
"Okay, but only to show you how cynical you're becoming. And if you're wrong, no Hannity and Colmes for a week."
"The stakes in Iraq are too high and the consequences too grave for our security here at home to allow politics to harm the mission of our men and women in uniform."
D'oh.
They actaully quoted President Bush.
Finally, Casey picked up a magazine from the coffee table and laid it on my desk.
Double D'oh. Time Magazine, that Manhattan liberal bastion, as well as the home of regular opinions from those leftist hippies Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, doing a cover story - just a month ago - on the stakes in Iraq when/if we leave. Then again, Bill might not have understood what the Time story was about just from the cover headline ...
Really. It is rather vague.
"Can I go out and play basketball now, Dad?"
"Sure, son. Remember...trust your stroke. Don't aim the ball."
"I love you, Dad.
"I love you too, son."
Casey didn't actually say the "I love you" part, but since I am doing the final edit here, well...I'm sure he does.
But here he is, still on vacation yet, he's willing to go out in the summer heat, work on his game, and keeps getting better for it.
Yet even on vacation and with all his practice, Bill is still so capable of firing massive airballs toward coherency's net?
Well, that's what happens when you refuse to stop aiming the ball.
Casey Young is a 7th Grader from Chatsworth CA and wouldn't mind that if one day he became president.