January 29, 2006

Down The Memory Hole

Fryday, 4 Shivring 2005

No, it isn't enough that the BFEE can vanish the photgraphic record when it decides that Jumpin Jack Abramoff is an unperson.

It isn't enough still that Putsch is flip-flopping about fifty times as much as anyone ever accused Kerry of doing (when he didn't) in the run-up to the 2004 selection when he now all of a sudden remembers to pass the boogeyman's name out of his vacuous piehole.

No, it's the inherent conservative media bias* that has gone too far as far as I'm concerned. If there was a Democratic scandal involving a bagman fundraiser like this for the Democratic party, it would be front page news, and blared out on the Conservative News Network and Faux Snooze all day every day. The deafening silence (relatively speaking) regarding Putsch's pledge to get bin Laden "dead or alive", the seeming lack of curiosity over the timing of boogeyman warning alerts, and the different levels of respect accorded to politicians by the media depending on which side of the aisle they're sitting on has been growing steadily for quite some time now. I wanted to let you know of yet another example of it available for viewing right here at the Funny Farm.

You might notice a boxed link on the left hand side in the Links Zone that shows how many days it has been since the Chimperor's first speechifying about bringing Osama in "dead or alive". Quelle surprise, ABC News has vanished their article about this down the memory hole. Thank goodness I found the original press conference** where this fooforaw all started. At least I can now point to the original - at least until the White House scrubs their files...

* - the article I saw about this for which I can't find the linkage being one of the reasons why it has taken so long to get this onto the website. Anyone who knows where I can find the article in question, please feel free to show me where I can find it in the comments to this post.

** - as well as a very interesting article from CBS news that shows fairly clearly a lot of the inherent conservative biases I'm talking about - independent Senatorial critter Patrick Leahy*** is designated a Democrat, a lot of the negative comments are coming out of Democratic mouths (when there were a large number of more virulent comments from the Publican side of the aisle), and it seems to paint a picture of scurrilous Democrats getting in the way of our glorious Chimperor. Funny how that works...

*** - (Update 20060131) I have mistakenly confused Pat Leahy (D - No Cojones) with Jim Jeffords (Independent). Sorry about that...

Posted by (: Tom :) at January 29, 2006 11:59 PM
Comments

Not to get in the way of a good rant, but Patrick Leahy is indeed a Democrat. The independent senator from Vermont is Jim Jeffords.

Posted by: Mediocre Fred at January 30, 2006 11:43 AM

D'oh! thanks for catching this, Fred. I will update the post when I get a minute.

Posted by: (: Tom :) at January 30, 2006 01:50 PM

We all make mistakes from time to time. I've found Leahy interesting ever since I happened to turn on C-SPAN one night back in '98. Leahy was running for re-election, and the Republican opponent was a backwoods dairy farmer named Fred Tuttle. NPR hosted a debate between the two, and Tuttle began his closing statement by saying, "I'm going to vote for Pat. My wife is going to vote for Pat. Everyone I know is going to vote for Pat. And so should you." If I'm lying, I'm dying.

Posted by: Mediocre Fred at January 30, 2006 05:13 PM