Keep Telling Yourselves That

Glenn Reynolds, citing some less successful blogger:

    “The groups that will gather in Washington DC for a major anti-war protest this weekend have financial ties to major leftist fundraisers like George Soros and Theresa Heinz Kerry, and beyond them to communist organizations and radical left-wing groups, the Washington Times reports today. The conduits for the rallies appear to be the ubiquitous front groups International ANSWER and the UPJ.”

    But the press reports will say that the marchers are ordinary Americans, not MoveOn and A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

CNN, citing, um, America:

    A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday indicated fewer than half of Americans believe the United States will win the Iraq war, and 55 percent of those surveyed said it should speed up withdrawal plans. …

    The results followed others this week that found only 32 percent of those interviewed supported President Bush’s handling of the war, 63 percent supported a full or partial withdrawal and and 54 percent favored cutting spending on the conflict to pay for rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. (Full story.)

The American people: a buncha no-good commies. Whatever gets you through the night, dude.