My, how they talk in New York, and this is not Murdoch’s Post:

The politics of Iraq, tilting strongly against the war for two years, will likely move back toward the center now, thanks to the impressive testimony of our top commander and to the outrageous attacks on him by some Democrats and their party’s wackadoo wing.

Can we imagine anything this pointed, this clear, this non-Dem-party commentary at Chi Trib and Sun-Times?

Yes, at Chi Trib, which has catholic taste for its op-ed page.  But not at S-T, where some mythical left-wing blue-collar audience waits eagerly for editorials that call for boycotting BP, etc.

The web head, “Petraeus brings the facts, but some Dems can’t handle the truth,” is apt. 

Neither of Chicago’s biggest papers show much interest in what Gen. Petraeus said in the last two days.  Their interest lies in Dems’ responses — it’s their party, is it not? — and Moveon-dot-org talking points.  Tom Frisbie, more leftist than I’d realized, has a cartoon for S-T likening Petraeus to Gen. Westmoreland in the Viet Nam war.  He really believes that stuff, apparently.  Tsk, tsk.

Chi Trib yesterday in hard copy — and it’s hard copy we are talking about here, not web sites — featured the general and the ambassador, Ryan Crocker, about equally.  It reminded me of the old joke about the diocesan newspaper headline, “Tornado in Oklahoma: No Catholics Killed.”