The Hesiodization of the Major Media

A while ago, I ripped on moonbat blogger extraordinaire "Hesiod", who claimed that had Algore won the presidency there's have been no 9/11 because Algore was psychic and clairvoyant and would have somehow overcome his hostility to the military and brought NORAD to full alert just in time and anyway he led a team of crack terrorbusters anyhow.

To my chagrin, I was too hard on him.

It seems I was premature. The media is following his lead.

Where to even start?

With Lileks, natch:

Fox local is covering the commission’s latest release, and – get this – we were unprepared on 9/11. What’s more, we now know how “unprepared the military was to deal with the hijackings.”

Yes, because we all know that the job of the military is to deal with hijacked airplanes. Let us imagine that the jets were scrambled, and they shot down all four planes before they reached their targets, and splashed two other commercial airliners for the wrong reason. We’d be talking about the reelection chances for President Cheney.

Switch to the stand-up reporter in front of a monitor. She says:

“Four planes. Four bombs. Four chances to take control. We never did.”

What?

We had 200-odd chances to thwart Pearl Harbor, but - and if you're a Kos or Hesiod reader, pay special attention here - the enemy surprised us. They won the battle. Imparting some implied clairvoyance to your guy only ensures that you've not learned the lessons that the defeat should be teaching us.