Remember 1998, when everybody had a job, we paid down our debts, and the country was in such good shape thanks to Bill Clinton’s undoing the budgetary madness of Ronald Reagan that the Republicans and their media buddies kept trying to jail him on any pretext or none? One of the media’s favorite tropes was that indictments were supposedly just around the corner for Clinton and his crew. Except that they weren’t. Yet that didn’t stop the press from pushing every single piece of bogus Republican oppo as news.
You’d think, then, that when a senior Bush official is under official scrutiny for masterminding the politically-motivated trial and conviction of a state governor, this would be Big News, on the order of what Whitewater was supposed to be but wasn’t. But the Karl Rove contempt story isn’t getting anywhere near the media play of Britney Spears’ recent bikini sighting — and the most prominent media mention of it has been an LAT story spun in classic "he said she said" fashion to present an "other side of the story" that doesn’t really exist. (Yupper, it’s another "Shape of Earth: Views Differ" classic.)
So what does the press consider news today? Well, there’s this WaPo story which the Republicans have clutched to their bosoms as "proof" of Barack Obama’s uppity "arrogance" — except that the WaPo’s Jonathan Weisman carefully and selectively rearranged the quote to make it say something the total opposite of what was meant, a move so blatantly wrong that not only the Democrats but even some of Weisman’s fellow journos are ripping him for it.
Meanwhile, John McCain repeats his debunked lies about Obama and Ramstein, knowing that the lies will get far more media love than the debunkings. Ai-yi-yi.
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Ai-yi-yi!!!!!!
Speaking of Brittney.
She and Paris are both Thugs. Brittney from Farenheight 9/11, and Mumsey and Daddy Hilton are Max Out McSame contributors.
Zed. Rover
Zed. Rover
Let Bubba take over!
But, but, but…Karl is:
http://www.thespywhobilledme.c…..5B3%5D.jpg
Leave him alone…He’s so squishible, and lovable..and he looks like me and you….and he’s should have eternal immunity, because he was just doing his job…
Meanies.
Is there a link missing beneath the text “Britney Spears’ recent bikini sighting”?
/snark
Why would corporate media do anything to help Senator Obama? Big media loves republicans. Republicans reward big media.
It doesn’t matter if reporters might have liberal tendencies. Their bosses want the corporate mouthpiece, i.e. the news organization bought to further the economic interests of the parent corporation e.g. NBC to GE, to toe the line to ensure continued lack of governmental oversight of their business.
Why is anyone surprised by the staunchly Republican nature of the MSM?
If Rove was accused of gettin or givin a blow job- or for causing the disappearance of a white woman- well then we’d get some coverage.
No one really understands what he’s accused of
PW,
I have to say that is one of the better Bush photographs I have seen. It really catches the essense of the
assman.If it looks as if Obama is going to win- watch everything change. None of these fuckin teevee networks wants to be on the wrong side of the FCC for eight years.
“If” such a thing existed within Bushco….cough….it would be erased and never revealed in any case…
If Rove was accused of getting a BJ from a woman, it would most likely be looked upon as either somebody paying somebody or some really low standards.
Not surprised at all.
Debunking would be admitting that they did not do their jobs in the first place…
Excellent post PW, and a good evening to you.
I thought you were going to write that the picture captivates the assence of the man…
Speaking of which, how does the man in the picture do that? With his pants on, no less!? One might think he’d at least have to drop trou, as one of my friends used to say.
Bob in HI
Future historians in the not too distant future will likely find that the demise of an independent 4th Estate was the beginning of the end of the U.S. of A..
I’m not. It’s why supposed Democrats(meaning Tweety and small Russ) allowed themselves to be pwned by guys like Darth Cheney.
They’re melting………..
Actually by Jack Welch. Neutron Jack was quite the guy, I can tell you, speaking with firsthand knowledge. He profoundly changed the corporate culture at General Electric, alright, it was once a good place to work. People liked working there. Jack took care of that issue.
RICO/RNC
Yes.
Howdy, folks! Sorry so late — anything exciting happen? Did twolf eat all the pizza again?
What do you mean “/snark”? There’s not a link!!?1?!!
how did you know?
Mighty quiet around here….
He’s got pepperoni breath, that’s how!
Actually, I think Rove dragged a terrific-looking blonde into the spotlight, which is why people aren’t sure what he did wrong (never mind that she was a covert CIA agent).
TedFest! – Arraignment Edition – Awards in the Hands of Ted’s Staff
*ahem*
Phil-ET’s upstairs
I am reminded, but not in name or location, of the convicted offical who petitioned to be able to serve his elected position from his jail cell.
This has gone from America losing its “moral Compass” to an expression of Republican Chutzpah – which George Bush has most preceisely expressed in the simple but devastating statement “Who cares what YOU think?”
Who cares, indeed.
Peterr!!!