Anti-Climacus

LINK: Delusional much? The American Prospect has done a fine job of overtaking The Nation as the premier source of outraged radical lefty lunacy. To wit:

"Still, the media could easily have been more sensitive to the partisan advantage their coverage bestowed upon the incumbent president -- especially in light of that president's transparent efforts to politicize 9-11, such as electing to hold the 2004 Republican convention in New York City at an unusually late date in order to coincide with the third anniversary of the attacks. New York, after all, is represented on Capitol Hill by two Democratic senators and a small army of Democratic members of Congress, none of whom were prominently on display but all of whom would surely have been happy to share their remarks and remembrances."

Because it's not as if New York has a Republican governor, and NYC a Republican mayor, and they've been held by the party for the last 12 years, which some might take as a sign of hidden electoral possibilities in the state (ah, the perfidious Karl Rove at work, no doubt), especially one that evinces the same upstate-downstate electoral dimensions as, say, Illiinois, which, by the by, has a Democratic governor for the state, and also for their major city. And the convention certainly isn't going to be held late because Republicans and Democrats want to have their post-convention bounce as close to election day as possible--indeed, it's a good thing the parties weren't fighting to see who'd schedule their convention for later. No, it's entirely because Bush wants to take advantage of the anniversary of 9-11... yeah... that's it...