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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 ::

Huffingtonia, a Gated Blog Community

Just dropped in to see what the rich and infamous are bloviating about and as others have reported, HuffingtonPost is a fabulous site darling--real fancy-shmancy. In any case, I clicked on Rob Reiner's ironic rant on the decline of journalistic integrity. Boy, I couldn't agree more Rob - the press in this country is doing a real lousy job.

As an example of how bad things are getting, Mr. Reiner complains that journalists aren't digging into Tom Delay's alleged travel transgressions (no?).

Well, it takes time to concoct phony documents Mr. Reiner. Marla Mapes spent like five years inventing the Bush TANG investigation. Obviously, CBS should have had a more creative and efficient "producer" working on it, like maybe Jason Blair.

But all kidding aside, do you suppose maybe the press is on the take - being paid by the evil Republicans to NOT report on Delay's travel expenses? Hey, its not beyond the realm of possibility; after all, Saddam Hussein paid CNN to NOT report on the 1.3 million Iraqis slaughtered by his murderous regime.

I must say, I do agree with Mr. Reiner; the press isn't doing it's job very well at all. But in all fairness, they've got their hands full right now ignoring the multi-billion dollar UN oil for food scandal, the good news from Iraq (part 27) and Afghanistan, and the Democratization of a vast region of the planet.

Nice site Arianna, and welcome to the Blogosphere Mr. Reiner.

[Hey Rob: there's this guy named Theo van Gogh and I haven't seen much in the main-stream media about him - maybe you could blog about his case. No? Well then, considering your interest in education spending, you might want to blog about this...]

Update: Just cobbed the following HuffingtonPost link from The Corner. Chris Meserole chides his fellow travelers for their knee-jerk support of France. He's right, his post is interesting and it's nice to see a liberal get it. Now if he would just point out that France's involvement in Africa has everything to do with "blood for oil".

Update 2: Lou Minatti makes mincemeat out of Meathead (yecthhh - like I said, welcome to the Blogosphere Meathead).

Related: If you're game for a little more clinical Fisking of Liberal softheadedness Scott Burgess is back...

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