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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

FRANKLY INCENSED: UNWISE MEN BEAR GIFTS FOR BUTCHERS

By Ralph Peters
NY Post

The difference between the child-killers in the Middle East 2,000 years ago and those today is that Herod's men rode into Bethlehem to preserve a threatened political system, while the terrorists we face in Iraq seek to destroy a government in their god's name.

The Iraq Study Group doesn't get it.

Here's a line by Peters that I don't understand:

After all of the blame-it-on-Israel criticism of the neoconservatives, the media have been strangely quiet about Baker's extensive ties to Riyadh.

All of the neocons I'm familiar with (Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, etc.) are very pro-Israel... Did I read that sentence correctly???

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