If she puts it in writing, can she be sued for specific performance?

I won't get my hopes up. She lies about everything else. This too, I'm sure.

Mitch: Alec, not Alex.

Or, as his motivational character in Glengarry Glen Ross might say, "Mr. Eff You."

Be kind to Helen. She has so little. Her world has crumbled. She is bereft. And yet in her desperation, she has rendered a declaration which alone has done more to illuminate the depravity at the core of what is left of her profession than what FOX News and a million blogs could ever do.

In one swell foop, she has given the lie away in everything she's ever written.

"In one swell foop, she has given the lie away in everything she's ever written."

Not that there was any big secret, or anything.

I voted for Dick Cheney for the House, I voted for Dick Cheney for VP, and I'd vote for Dick Cheney for pretty much any office he decided to run for. A Helen Thomas suicide would be just a bonus.

(But, oh, what a bonus.)

Helen Thomas stopped being a "respected" journalist years ago. Now, she's just a senile old bitch, who gets more bitter by the minute. And much of the reason for her bitterness is that the MSM has been shown to be a pack of ultra-liberal worms who can't report the time and temperature without blaming Bush for SOMETHING.

Thank God for blogs and the Internet. Without it....we'd have President Kerry making a SCOTUS appointment today.

I accuse Mitch Berg of blog plagiarism.

On July 2, 2004 the brilliant satirical blog Fraters Libetas posted about the threatened suicide of a Leftist based on a George Bush re-election. The title of that post: Promises, Promises. The punchline of that post: a comparison to Alec Baldwin's threats to move.

Mitch Berg, a known reader of Fraters Libertas, uses identical wording and structures in his post today.

I ask the jury to review the link below for evidence and I further ask they sentence him to the maximum sentence allowable by law.

http://www.fraterslibertas.com/2004_07_01_archive.html#108879211059653998

The evidence is pretty clear there. The headline was def horked, as was the basic premise for the entire post.

We'll give Mitch the benefit of the doubt and just say he pulled a "Ziggy" like Elaine did on Seinfeld when she published her New Yorker cartoon about the pig wanting to be taller.

Peterman noticed that he had seen the same bit in a Ziggy cartoon years ago. Elaine said it was subconcious.

Actually, if any horking's been going on, it's not been me. A casual search of my archives shows two earlier posts (not counting this one) entitled "Promises, Promises",

http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/003864.html
http://www.shotinthedark.info/archives/002868.html

...including one from February *2002*, a solid couple of weeks before the Fraters debuted:

http://www.fraterslibertas.com/2002_03_01_archive.html

Berg. The Original.

In the interests of historical accuracy, I feel that I must point out that although the Fraters blog was launched in March of 2002, the web site Fraters Libertas was online as far back as the Spring of 2001. I don't know if anyone borrowed the title of a bad '80s song for a piece during those early days.

In light of further evidence, we'd like to drop all charges. And fire our legal research team.

And in the interest of FURTHER accuracy, it must be noted that I didn't borrow "Promises, Promises" from Naked Eyes' 1982 synth-dreck classic, but rather from Generation X's 1977 single of the same name.

(Yes, that's the the SAME Gen-X that featured not only a young, pre-cliche Billy Idol, but the pre Sigue Sigue Sputnik Tony James, in case you were wondering).