Losing Before Winning - All That Matters is the Losing

Ace over at Ace of Spades points out that the MSM is having to confront the awful prospect of victory. Fortunately, they're able to do this by trying to paint previous efforts as failure.

One month on and Iraq’s leader can justifiably claim to have scored a stunning victory, probably the first of its kind by the post-Saddam Iraqi army. The most notorious areas of Basra are now under government control, the Mahdi Army of Moqtadr al-Sadr has been roundly defeated and the long suffering people of Basra are celebrating freedoms they did not enjoy during the four years of British military rule in the city.

The cool part here is that the British are portrayed as failures. That way the MSM can still focus on failure while claiming to report success. Imagine if they reported like this in the sports pages.

Yesterday, the Atlanta Braves beat the Florida Marlins, 7-4. Despite this victory, it's worth noting that after a half inning of play, the Braves were losing! Losing, losing, losing! Oh, sure, the Braves managed to stumble about later in the game and clumsily eke out a victory, but it's worth focusing on that first inning a bit more...

How pathetic.