{"id":7702,"date":"2006-06-16T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7702"},"modified":"2006-06-16T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T14:32:29","slug":"perhaps-snow-should-look-for-a-different-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/perhaps-snow-should-look-for-a-different-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps Snow should look for a different comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporters aren’t usually funny at the White House press briefings, but yesterday, one journalist — unfortunately, it’s unclear which one — delivered a great line<\/a> during an important exchange with Tony Snow.<\/p>\n

Q: Isn’t it a bit of a simplification to say that terrorists’ car bombs are obscuring the real picture? … You don’t think that’s a misrepresentation? After three years, Baghdad can’t be secured yet?<\/p>\n

Snow: No. The President has said all along — what you’re expecting is facile, which is a snap victory, things easy. It’s not easy. This is a country where there have been factional disputes that go back a very long time. And people on the ground know that it’s not easy. No, they’re not facile at all in their approach to how they fight the war. I would also pose that to the people who are in theater. It’s not a facile explanation. It’s a true explanation: a car bomb is more vivid than getting an extra hundred kilowatts out of an electrical generation facility.<\/p>\n

Q: Well, since they haven’t done that either —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Snow probably should have picked a better point of comparison. As of April, residents in Baghdad received an average of four hours of electricity per day<\/a>, compared to pre-war levels of 16-24 hours per day.<\/p>\n

If Snow wants a “vivid” example of success to counteract the car bombs — or the shoe bomb that killed 10 Iraqis<\/a> at a key Shi’ite mosque this morning — he’ll have to look harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reporters aren’t usually funny at the White House press briefings, but yesterday, one journalist — unfortunately, it’s unclear which one — delivered a great line during an important exchange with Tony Snow. Q: Isn’t it a bit of a simplification to say that terrorists’ car bombs are obscuring the real picture? … You don’t think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}