Well, not really. However, he is relying on someone else's metaphor in his latest column "A fox is about to reassure us hens". American Family Voices, a group founded by a Clinton staffer, who was also political director for People for the American Way, was the original source of the metaphor. Read Byron York's article in National Review Online, which discusses the AFV campaign in detail.
While the Scheer piece isn't discussed, it fits it with a new pattern of coordinated attacks against Bush and the GOP. More and more, whenever a new theme is tried, it gets trumpeted by several sources at once, in an effort to implant a connection in the minds of the American people: "Bush=Crooked". It appears that the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been replaced by the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy, led by Terry McAuliffe, James Carville, PFAW, AFV, and a few sycophantic columnists such as Paul Krugman, Robert Scheer, and Helen Thomas.
posted on July 12, 2002 07:32 PM
