BULLETIN:  THIS JUST IN:  America's enemy named!  A major American journalist has just, after extensive reporting, revealed to an eager public just who America's enemy is.  Please take notes when you read this, from NewsBuster:

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker believes Americans are the enemy of the nation moving in a new energy direction because of what she called our addiction to oil.

As the discussion on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show" moved to why President Obama hasn't attacked energy policy much like Eisenhower did the space program, Tucker said, "One of the differences between the '50's when Sputnik was launched and now, that was a battle against Communism."

She continued, "It's always much easier to rally Americans against an external threat, an external enemy."

Yeah, only Americans, of course.  In fact, it's easier to rally any country against an external enemy.

And sadly continued, "In this case, the enemy is us. Americans are addicted to petroleum. We use way too much oil."

COMMENT:  I wonder how this journalistic genius gets to work.  I wonder how she lights her office.  I wonder what powers the printing presses of her paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  I wonder what powers the machinery that processes her food, so her mouth can go. 

Precisely how much of her own oil, and her paper's, is Ms. Tucker willing to give up?

Don't bother asking.

June 20, 2010