We'll see

I think John Zogby, who obviously knows more about polling than I do, is by and large correct, but there is more to the dynamic I think. Zogby says:

Sagging job approval numbers wouldn't get a boost, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows

With President Bush's job approval numbers languishing in the low 30s, not even Osama bin Laden can come to the rescue, a new Zogby Interactive survey shows.

And Wednesday's death of Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Al-Zarqawi is unlikely to improve the President's numbers, Pollster John Zogby said.

Asked how much credit would be due President Bush if bin Laden were caught, 52% said they would give him no credit because he turned his attention instead to Iraq after the war on Afghanistan. Twenty-eight percent would give him all the credit, while 17% said he would deserve some of the credit.

The President's job approval rating in fighting against terrorism would be at 42% if bin Laden were found, the poll shows, which is about where he is right now - with bin Laden still on the loose. A Zogby telephone poll in may showed his job approval for fighting terrorism at 41%, which was down from 44% in February.

I think after a period of time this is true.

But in the short-term the lead story seemed to be "we Americans blow'd stuff up real good" and any good American loves blowing up the shit! The subtext was - still more crap happening in Iraqifuckedupalltohellistan. I'm guessing the mouth-breathers, and semi-mouth breathers won't catch the underlying facts. They rarely do.



The wake of Zarqawi's death was similar to the flag-waving disgusting subtext that was cable news in the late Winter and Spring of 2003. There were no reports of what is known: that his power was manufactured largely by us and what we said (he was a psy-op creature); that Bush did not nail him before the war in large part so he could be used as a reason FOR the war; and that Iraq and its civil unrest have little to do anymore with this nimrod. AmericaBlog has more.

Sorry to fit so well in to what the red bloggers consider a stereotype, but facts are facts -- and they've rarely been interested. The platitudes of "our troops rock" and shit are nice -- and of course most of them do a great job under nearly impossible conditions. But the impossible conditions and how they got created and when they will end is the important question. Not the fucking platitudes which is all the Bush and his enablers have had since "Mission Accomplished".

You know, I'd look at video of the news coverage before the lead up to the war again, but I'm not a bulemic harpy like Ann Coulter.