The Mainstream Press Notices Flypaper

The Mainstream Press Notices Flypaper

Bloggers figured this out months ago, but now that President Bush has finally led the press by the nose to it, the flypaper strategy is just beginning to dawn on the mainstream press - The Wall Street Journal anyway.

The critical line in President Bush's speech: "The surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans," Mr. Bush said, in what for us was the heart of his speech. "We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."