Touché!

Now this is the sort of letter that I would have expected from the White House a few years ago. For some reason, President Bush's comebacks have been few and far between. Maybe, just maybe, the president will start swinging back at his critics; lame duck or not, he needs to put them in their place when things like this happen - which seems to be almost all of the time. I am looking for the day that he will start naming all of the rats on the Left; every one of those who have voted against funding our troops, every one of them that have gone into enemy territory and schmoozed their dictators, every one of them that wants to see America's defeat.
I hope he calls them out.

finally...

WHITE HOUSE TAKES SWIPE AT NBC NEWS
(from thehill.com)

The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran. “This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the President’s responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts,” said White House counselor Ed Gillespie in the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus.

Gillespie used the opportunity to also inquire whether NBC News still believes that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. In November 2006, the network decided to label the infighting in the country a “civil war.”

“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”

Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.

“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”

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The "civil war" talk isn't over yet; they are just waiting until

General Petraeous gives his next update...