CNN: “Bush didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid, he made it”

posted at 3:56 pm on December 8, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Newsbusters has video. It’s a good thing they specified that he’d made the Kool-Aid. If they’d said he merely imbibed it, the nutroots would be calling them right-wing poodles.

Newsbusters reads this as an example of the old “critics say” dodge. Is it? Sounds to me like this one’s coming direct from Suzanne Malveaux’s bleeding heart:

President Bush and his closest ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, have stood shoulder to shoulder on the Iraq war since the very beginning. Critics calling Mr. Bush ‘the cowboy’ for stubbornly leading the charge, and Mr. Blair ‘the poodle’ for obediently following. But three years since the U.S. invasion, the two are still adamant their Iraq mission is sound. President Bush didn’t just drink the Kool-Aid, he made it. But perhaps now it’s a little less sweet.

Critics say Bush and Blair are a cowboy and poodle, respectively. Critics don’t say that Bush drank the Kool-Aid. Suzanne says that.

Stay tuned to CNN next week when Anderson Cooper interviews Dick Cheney for his new report on Iraq, “War the Chickenhawk Wingnut Way.”

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