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April 29, 2004

The Next Kangaroo Court

Two weeks ago, when John Kerry's mouth started getting him in trouble, the media pulled out the Clark testimony and the 9/11 commission. It drew some attention away from Kerry's budding meltdown.

But the hearings are over. What next?

Well, Kerry's been flailing away, trying to re-open the "Bush's National Guard Service" trope. The Democrats may have harmed themselves more than helped with Senator Frank Lautenberg's senile-sounding "Cheney the Chickenhawk" rant in the Senate yesterday.

I got a hint from Russert this morning on the Today show; questioning what happened on Air Force One on 9/11 - "what were the threats, and were they credible".

We've gone from "What did Bush know and when did he know it" to "Why didn't Bush fail to defy Secret Service protocols for emergencies".

Six months til the election. Smell the desperation.

Posted by Mitch at April 29, 2004 07:30 AM
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Of course, when Richard Clarke claims that *he's* the one who told the President to stay away from Washington, I'm not sure how the media will be able to spin that story...

...then again perhaps I'm expecting a level of consistancy and logic that the media just isn't capable of...

Posted by: Jay Reding at April 29, 2004 08:15 AM

You're right about that, Jay---if the right-wing controlled corporate media had any "consistancy or logic," every pronouncement by Bush would be followed by a 30-minute special detailing the lies he'd just told and the mistakes he'd just made. But the media just gives him a pass, releasing White House press releases verbatim without any explaination. Despicable, isn't it?

Posted by: Don Myers at April 30, 2004 11:37 AM

"the right-wing controlled corporate media"

LMAO!

Thanks for the laughs, Don.

Posted by: Sav at April 30, 2004 01:02 PM

Well, sav---Disney owns ABC, Viacom owns CBS, Simon & Shuster, and MTC, NewsCorp owns Fox, gannett, and Harper & Row, and GE owns NBC and MSNBC. All four corporations are MAJOR GOP contributers.

Are you saying that major Republican cash-cows are actually some sort of liberal cabal?

Are you high?

The fact is that there is a clear conservative bias in the mainstream media, but that same media keeps screaming about a liberal bias. It's a total fabrication, unsupported by even the most cursory glance at content. But millions of Americans buy the lie---hook, line, and sinker.

Posted by: Don Myers at May 1, 2004 01:56 PM

Lol....sounding desperate Don....
Kerry gets caught out so badly with his medal lies (video evidence no less) that even the lefty press have to grudgingly ask a few token hardball questions (except of course the program actually called hardball)and all of a sudden its because of a right wing media conspiracy?
you're right...its dethPICable....

Bugs.

Posted by: JB at May 1, 2004 07:18 PM
hi