Pony Blow gets smacked

Josh at Talking Points Memo properly smacks Pony Blow about the head and shoulders for his assine statements about the Battle of the Bulge last week:

"Okay, back on Monday we discussed Tony Snow's comments about how if polls had been taken during World War II's Bulge of the Bulge people would probably have been pushing for a change in the course of the war as they are now in Iraq.

That's actually an insult to the American people generally, as well as the men who fought World War II and those who supported them on the homefront.

In any case, Snow clearly believes he can get away with this malarkey because he thinks polls weren't taken at the time.

But he's wrong. They were taking them. And they pretty clearly belie Snow's whole point.

My great friend and former graduate student colleague James Sparrow dropped me a line last night to tell me that "Hadley Cantril, at Princeton, did secret polling for FDR throughout the war on public support for the war, and specifically focused on trendlines, noting shifts from event to event."

Read the whole post here. Okay, I'm not going to fault Tony Snow for not knowing that there actually was polling done during WWII, but the idea that the American people didn't support the war in 1944 is beyond ludicrous.

The WH should quit pulling garbage out of their collective asses to defend this disastrous and unpopular war. And they should stop making ridiculous and insulting references to try to paint democrats as the bad guys. I mean, what's next? "If democrats had been present at the big bang, they'd have prevented it from happening, causing all of the universe to fail to form!"?

I suspect that part of this is a willful effort on the WH's part to both conflate chimpy with a great president AND to paint the democrats as cowardly traitors.

But I also think part of the story is that Pony Blow is dumb as a fucking rock.