Antonia Zerbisias, 27 July 2003, Toronto Star
It's almost as if the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division in Iraq didn't get the memo. Not to take away from its successful shredding of the evil spawn of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, but could it have timed it any worse? Tuesday was all set as the White House's very own production of American Idol, the return of Pfc. Jessica Lynch, 20, to her West Virginia hometown. She's that- let me plagiarize myself from April 7- "archetypal, blonde-in-peril, made-for-TV movie coming to a ratings sweeps period near you."
The media Lynch mob should have been enough to divert attention away for at least a day from the slow but steady sinking of U.S. President George W. Bush in the polls, as well as his administration's fudging of yellowcake and the making of other cow pies that led to war and the sad state of his economy. What? You think it was pure coinkidink that, on Thursday, when that blacked-out 9/11 commission report was released that (1) so were photos of the very dead Brothers Badenov; (2) the government staged a very videogenic Al Qaeda attack drill, or; (3) that Vice-President Dick Cheney finally slithered out of his nest to speechify about how no president has fought terrorism like Bush has?
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