A Google search of news headlines yields the following, perplexing find: The most prevalent headline by far is Bin Laden: US Can Avoid Another Attack.
But I see here that CBS has found a silver lining (and no, they didn’t put this under the headline “Bin Laden: US Can Avoid Another Attack; Bush, Cheney Hardest Hit”). Here’s their news reporting:
The airing of a tape of Osama bin Laden capped a week of bad news for President Bush that threatened to derail his candidacy in the final days of the presidential election.
For Mr. Bush, it was one piece of bad news after another ? reporting of hundreds of tons of explosives looted in Iraq, tens of billions more for the war. And late this afternoon, a tape of bin Laden airing nationwide, where America?s chief adversary appears in good health and secure.
Even before the latest bin Laden tape, Sen. John Kerry had put President Bush on the defensive in the final week of the presidential election.
Outside of there being an ?October Surprise,? the frenzied week did underline Kerry?s indictment of Mr. Bush: that the president mismanaged the war in Iraq and took the eye off the ?real threat ? — al Qaeda. Meanwhile, it seemingly undermined Mr. Bush?s message that the war effort was proceeding as planned and that the invasion of Iraq did not siphon resources from the Afghan war on al Qaeda and its leader bin Laden. …