{"id":3094,"date":"2004-09-21T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T23:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2004-09-21T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T23:45:39","slug":"rathergate-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Rathergate: The Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, let’s see.  I’d planned to jot down a few thoughts about the latest RatherGate revelations, but Allah has already covered those<\/a> in excrutiating detail—and with that same sodden sense of jittery, overtired bemusement I find myself swimming in these days.  So no need.\n<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, Bill INDC<\/a> sharpens his beak and takes a few hungry pecks at that giant, stunned CBS eyeball (the one that crazed loon Bill Burkett hopes to own one day,<\/a> at which point he’ll affix it to his roof like some freakish satellite dish and instruct it to keep a lookout for black helicopters, limber government spies, and squadrons of flesh eating nano-marauders from the planet How in the Hell Could Anybody<\/i> Ever Take This Crazy Fucker Seriously?\n<\/p>\n

\nSpeaking of which, angry, frantic Kerry pimp Oliver Willis puts down his cream cheese sandwich long enough to add his special blend of insight and golden sponge cake to the mix:<\/p>\n

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So CBS is saying<\/a> not that they have been proven fake, but that they shouldn’t have run them. Fine, though I do wish our media was less sloppy. Fox News outputs the journalistic equivalent of the Bush memos every day, but that seems to never be covered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…and<\/p>\n

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If you’ve ever wondered how useless<\/a> the American media is, yesterday was a superb illustration. I’m not saying that the CBS memo story wasn’t newsworthy – but on the same day Kerry made a major foreign policy address, and Bush responded in kind, and a man was beheaded in Iraq – was Dan Rather’s mea culpa really the top issue of the day?\n<\/p>\n

\nThe media’s malfeasance was the story of Election ‘00, and it will be the tale of Election ‘04.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWell, if anybody knows useless, Oli, it’s you. \n<\/p>\n

\nMeantime, for those of you who missed Kerry’s “major foreign policy address,” the gist of it was, “today I wouldn’t have gone into Iraq.  Today.  And in the name of all that is tough on terror, I ask that you please ignore some of the other positions I’ve taken on this very issue.  For the time being, I mean.  Terms and conditions subject to change without notice.  Some restrictions apply.  Vietnam.  Now, who wants a fudge pop?”\n<\/p>\n

\nThere.  All caught up.  Now we can begin our day.\n<\/p>\n

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\nMore from Wizbang<\/a> and Commisar<\/a>, Ace<\/a>, John Cole,<\/a> Baseball Crank<\/a> (inexplicably absent from my blogroll, to be rectified shortly), and Tom Maguire,<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, let’s see.  I’d planned to jot down a few thoughts about the latest RatherGate revelations, but Allah has already covered those in excrutiating detail—and with that same sodden sense of jittery, overtired bemusement I find myself swimming in these days.  So no need. Meanwhile, Bill INDC sharpens his beak and takes a few hungry pecks at that giant, stunned CBS eyeball (the one that crazed loon Bill Burkett hopes<\/p>\n

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