Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

Via Pandagon, I see that Howard Kurtz has this to say about the whole business about the Niger uranium reports and whatnot:

The left is now up in arms about one sentence in George Bush's last State of the Union speech.

Well, all sentences are not created equal, obviously. Starlog Magazine once had a cartoon where a Star Wars fan in 1980 was being tormented by his best friend, who had seen The Empire Strikes Back while the fan had not. The friend begs to tell the fan just one sentence from the movie, and the fan relents. The sentence? "I am your father." For that matter, the Presidential Oath of Office is just one sentence, so in a sense, the left is generally up in arms over one sentence President Bush said on Inauguration Day, 2001.

And besides, I seem to recall the Right in this country getting pretty hot-under-the-collar after a single sentence spoken by President Clinton, more than a couple of times.

So if you want to defend the Administration's reliance on faulty information in making its case for war, please don't use the "It was just one sentence" tactic, OK? That dog won't hunt.