Gary Larson looks at the similarities between the media invective against Churchill before World War II and Bush today:
Eerie parallels between the appeasement craze in the mid-1930s and today's denunciations of a war on terrorism are striking. Winston S. Churchill clashed with news media for warning of Nazi tyranny and for pitching resolve to meet the Nazi threat. President George W. Bush is skewered by media for the war on terror. Both confronted not only a smug and hostile press, but also a less-than-loyal opposition perhaps concerned more with winning an election than chasing down the bad guys. First things first?
Because the contexts of the two men's times are poles apart, any comparison cannot be literal. Yet Churchill's thrashing by Fleet Street, the British national press, had all the earmarks of what's loosely called Bush-bashing today.
No comments:
Post a Comment