The Funny Farm

Understated Coverage

Yeah, yeah - I know there's a few extra exciting events going on this week. But I'm not one of the Kool Kids who got invited to the party. Good thing, too - I wouldn't have talked about anything but how much (insert your most hated TV talking bobble head here) drank / snorted / smoked last night, yet still managed to make it onto the set the next day. So there's that...

But there really have been a couple of interesting things going on this week that qualify as news here at the Funny Farm*:

Uberblogger Atrios has finally been identified to the public. Dude, hope you like all the extra attention you're going to get in the airports from the Bush goons enthusaistic new hires in airport security. Start checking the post offices for your picture...

pResident Can't Ride A Bike is trying to hide the fact that he has given this great nation a record deficit this year, only four years after we had a record surplus. Thanks, Putsch!

Oh, yeah - it's official (kinda sorta). We have our first pRezNit Prozac! That large grain of salt you should be taking with this report is from Capitol Hill Blue.

In case you were wondering if the television networks that have bothered to cover the convention at all were actually imapartially reporting the news, as opposed to merely mouthing soundbites designed to mislead the public, you should have been watching Faux News and the Conservative News Network's coverage(cough) of the convention. Ralph Reed providing commentary on CNN about Edwards' speech? What, was Rush Limbaugh busy then? Or just tripping out on the OxyContin?

Even conservatives are getting nervous: CNN Money reports this morning that Americans' incomes fell for two years. That should actually read the first two years of the Bush administration, because they haven't got any numbers for the last two years of this walking disaster yet - but, hey, at least they haven't spiked the story...

And now for this week's call to FReep the polls at CNN:

Today's front page poll asks: Do you know what John Kerry stands for?

Today Lou Dobbs wants to know: Which is your preference for voting in the next presidential election? Paper ballots, Absentee ballots, Electronic voting, or Electronic voting with paper receipt?

That's all for now. Except for this lovely cartoon from Aislin which we got a chance to see last night:

* - we knew about Barak Obama before the convention even started. Even before his opponent decided that Jeri Ryan wasn't, um, outgoing enough to be his wife (and before we knew she was a Nazi stooge for the Repugnicants, too!). So the ongoing Democratic orgasm was a little more than we expected, but not much more.

Then again, we don't wait to form our opinions until PigBoy or Faux News tells us what to think.

Posted by (: Tom :) at July 29, 2004 06:10 AM