Mike Sanders has some interesting comments on Dan Rather's teshuva (or lack thereof). Teshuva is a Hebrew word that's often loosely translated as "repentance," but which more literally means "turning" or "re-turning," or "realizing you're heading down the interstate highway of life in the wrong direction and making a dramatic u-turn." It's an especially important part of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day just concluded last night.
Meanwhile, on my way to do some last minute shopping Friday afternoon for the break fast, I heard about this AP poll putting Bush 7 points ahead. The radio blurb also mentioned that Bush and Kerry were now neck-in-neck among women voters. Yes, indeedy. So I figured that was why the only other "news" that KYW (our local "all news, all the time" radio station) saw fit to broadcast that day was a) tape of Kerry's speech at Temple University, b) tape of Kerry's speech at U of Penn and c) long paraphrases by various roving (heh) reporters of those speeches. Ad nauseum. Funny that on Thursday, when President Bush spoke at Valley Forge, KYW's coverage largely focused on the event and not on the content. As Charles says, "mainstream media’s desperation is beginning to show."
Oh, did I mention that KYW is part of the Infinity Broadcasting network (i.e., more or less a CBS affiliate)?
And speaking of Valley Forge, it seems the Neo-Nazi rally there yesterday was "mostly peaceful."
VALLEY FORGE, PA (AP) About 100 neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan supporters shouted white supremacist slogans from an amphitheater stage at Valley Forge National Historical Park on Saturday, while twice as many counter-demonstrators heckled back from a nearby hillside.
Jeff Schoep, 30, of Minneapolis, commander of the National Socialist Movement, launched the rally with an attack on Jews, who he said planned "the destruction of all races through the evils of race mixing."
Speaker after speaker repeated the theme, with many attacking the war in Iraq as "Israel's war."
"For 40 years, Israel has sought to get American forces on the ground in the Middle East," said Clifford Herrington, a former NSM chairman.
There were counter-demonstrations, of course (I hear Michael Berg was there).
Mr. Schloep (oops) said he was unaware it was a Jewish holiday. Here's a different report.
Whatever.
