FAIRLY UNBALANCED
At long last the mainstream press corps are admitting they dropped the ball in covering the early W. years and the infamous run-up to the Iraq war. Now, however, they say the full scrutiny of news organizations is in play. What a crock of shit.
Last night all the major TV news organizations had fancy graphics saying something like, "An Air of Corruption," framed by a red elephant and a blue donkey. After all, like Fox News, they wanted to be "fair and balanced."
Let's see, regarding corruption on the Republican side, we had Jack Abramoff (the corrupt lobbyist who admitted a vast majority of ties with Republican congressmen and White House officials), former California Rep. Randy Cunningham (now in the slammer for taking bribes in exchange for lucrative contracts), former Majority leader, Tom Delay (awaiting trial for money laundering), Representative Mark Foley (for soliciting sex with Congressional boy aids), soon-to-be former Speaker Dennis Hastert (who had illicit ties with Abramoff and headed the Foley cover-up), and the nepotism cases involving Rep John Doolittle's wife/consultant's huge fees, and of course, Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter (whose home was raided to gather evidence her father directed lucrative contracts to her firm.
And to balance this, the news organizations trotted out Democrat Harry Reid, who allegedly used campaign money to tip the doormen at his Washington condo. Wow. Harry Reid was trying to gain influence over the doorman! This warranted the little blue donkey icon on the TV news "Corruption" graphic.
Well, I see the news organizations' point. After all, Harry Reid, through his ethics failure, could now expect to:
1. Have the door held better for him
2. Have his umbrella blow dried
3. Have the route to the elevator Mapquested
4. Have guests announced without attitude
5. Have special cones to indicate freshly mopped floors
I'm so glad that Republican corruption was balanced out with Harry Reid's tipping indiscretion.
Fair and balanced, of course, doesn't extend to the ridiculous. If one were doing a contemporaneous story on the holocaust, one wouldn't leave the pits of Auschwitz to get Joseph Goebbels' take on why the genocide was warranted.
At the same time, as much as Republicans would have you believe it, an extramarital affair with an adult intern is not the impeachable equivalent to lying about a war that, by some estimates, has cost as many as a half million lives. Have the inmates truly taken over the news asylum?
As Democrats are poised to take control of Congress, we are starting to hear muffled threats about the dire political consequences of impeaching a sitting president during wartime. As Republicans continue to testify against one other, let the stuck pigs squeal.
At long last the mainstream press corps are admitting they dropped the ball in covering the early W. years and the infamous run-up to the Iraq war. Now, however, they say the full scrutiny of news organizations is in play. What a crock of shit.
Last night all the major TV news organizations had fancy graphics saying something like, "An Air of Corruption," framed by a red elephant and a blue donkey. After all, like Fox News, they wanted to be "fair and balanced."
Let's see, regarding corruption on the Republican side, we had Jack Abramoff (the corrupt lobbyist who admitted a vast majority of ties with Republican congressmen and White House officials), former California Rep. Randy Cunningham (now in the slammer for taking bribes in exchange for lucrative contracts), former Majority leader, Tom Delay (awaiting trial for money laundering), Representative Mark Foley (for soliciting sex with Congressional boy aids), soon-to-be former Speaker Dennis Hastert (who had illicit ties with Abramoff and headed the Foley cover-up), and the nepotism cases involving Rep John Doolittle's wife/consultant's huge fees, and of course, Rep. Curt Weldon's daughter (whose home was raided to gather evidence her father directed lucrative contracts to her firm.
And to balance this, the news organizations trotted out Democrat Harry Reid, who allegedly used campaign money to tip the doormen at his Washington condo. Wow. Harry Reid was trying to gain influence over the doorman! This warranted the little blue donkey icon on the TV news "Corruption" graphic.
Well, I see the news organizations' point. After all, Harry Reid, through his ethics failure, could now expect to:
1. Have the door held better for him
2. Have his umbrella blow dried
3. Have the route to the elevator Mapquested
4. Have guests announced without attitude
5. Have special cones to indicate freshly mopped floors
I'm so glad that Republican corruption was balanced out with Harry Reid's tipping indiscretion.
Fair and balanced, of course, doesn't extend to the ridiculous. If one were doing a contemporaneous story on the holocaust, one wouldn't leave the pits of Auschwitz to get Joseph Goebbels' take on why the genocide was warranted.
At the same time, as much as Republicans would have you believe it, an extramarital affair with an adult intern is not the impeachable equivalent to lying about a war that, by some estimates, has cost as many as a half million lives. Have the inmates truly taken over the news asylum?
As Democrats are poised to take control of Congress, we are starting to hear muffled threats about the dire political consequences of impeaching a sitting president during wartime. As Republicans continue to testify against one other, let the stuck pigs squeal.
posted by R. Reynolds at 8:53 AM
8 Comments:
I thought Clinton was impeached (and disbarred) for perjury, not for having an affair. Luckily, we have PNN to set the record straight.
Dear, Bilbo, (is alright if I call you Bilbo?), I think you missed the point. Yes, technically it was perjury. But because most Republicans think with their sex organs, Bill went down because of a blow-job in the oval office between consenting adults. Jealousy maybe? or just tactics.
Further proof of the organ thought process is the Farley incident (no small infraction do to the age of the participants) Americans are finally going to see the light and Republicans all will pay. How interesting that murdering 600,000+ Iraqis in a war on the wrong country did not pique the ire of the electorate! --USCE
Regarding Bilbo Riley's comment, perjury charges pertaining to Clinton's personal life constituted nothing more than political entrapment. Like you said Rick,with your poke in a pig: "Let the stuck pigs (Riley) squeal."
Most people will lie when confronted with their affairs. Bilbo Riley lied to his wife about our affair.
I remember Riley. Odor stuck to him like flies to a ribroast.
I've been away from my computer until now, doing good works throughout the land, so only now can respond.
USCE - "technically perjury"? I guess that depends on what you mean by perjury.
Anon - "entrapment"? Was Monica a Republican operative?
Ian - are you trying to be the Australian Raymond Chandler?
And finally, Carly, dear Carly - ours was a beautiful chapter in my sexual diary, not one that I would classify as an "affair." Uh, Carly is a girl's name, right?
Let me get this straight Bilbo, you, like Clinton, didn't consider the dalliance an affair?
Carly - a dalliance is merely flirtation. An affair has (for me, at least) connotations of tawdriness. Ours was a beautiful blending of two souls. Not to imply that you weren't dynamite in the sack.
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