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The new GOP attack line, blame world's woes on 'weakened America'
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-new-gop-attack-line-blame-world-s-woes-on-weakened-america-1.2580731Obama's critics are shifting from attacking Obamacare to world crises to take on the president
The new GOP attack line, blame world's woes on 'weakened America'
By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: Mar 21, 2014 5:01 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 21, 2014 10:38 AM ET
It didn't take long for America's cable ratings carnival to cheapen and exploit the dread of the missing Malaysian plane, then drag it into the country's partisan wars.
CNN, in its fevered, 24/7 delirium, has suggested everything from a covert landing on some secret island airstrip to supernatural intervention, a possibility one of its anchors felt compelled to "put out there" earlier this week.
Over at Fox News Channel, the "fair and balanced" crowd have been pushing a darker possibility, in line with their favourite explanation for everything: terrorism.
John Bolton, a former ambassador to the UN and a Fox regular, pointed out that Malaysia is a Muslim country, known as soft on terror, a perfect "haven" for terrorists to grab a plane.
