About that liberal media...

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I wonder how Republicans will spin this one? Every Republican, and I do mean every one, was anti-CBS back in 2004 when Dan Rather, ahem, rather foolishly went public with a story impugning Bush's National Guard "service."

Anyway, The Drudge Report has been pimping the Hillary story all day; it's nearly 3 p.m., and it's been up since 8 this morning. (Don't click unless you want to give him the hits.) Funny how I didn't notice McCain's numerous gaffes last week featured nearly as prominently, but that figures. If you click on the image above for a larger view, you'll notice that the insipid Drudge boasts one of the most visited sites on the Web. I hate to acknowledge it, but facts are facts - it's tough to overstate his influence on the mass media, going all the way back to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And the mainstream media simply laps it up; multiple times I've heard talking heads on cable news networks, including CNN, say "The Drudge Report is reporting..." as if that alone constitutes news. Never mind the fact that his track record is no better than The New York Times or any of the so-called media outlets. It's also a very poorly kept secret that the Republican National Committee talks with Drudge on a regular basis and gives him talking points.

Republican reaction to Hillary's latest puffery about a trip to Bosnia is pretty predictable, actually. It's the tried-and-true GOP play book - when the media reports something unfriendly regarding a Democrat, the media's simply doing it's job, but when the media pops a blister of Republican malfeasance, Repubes whine about "the liberal media." It's another reason we have to be so thankful for Richard Nixon's legacy. Thanks, Dick.

I tire of hearing tales about "the liberal media," but I won't stop writing about it, because it can and must be debunked.

Saddam verdict due NOV. 5!

CNN is reporting that the verdict in the Saddam Hussein trial is due on November 5, two days before the coming election.

Honestly, should anyone, Republican or Democrat, be surprised by this latest Karl Rove / President Bush manipulation? I know I'm sure as hell not.

It's perfectly obvious that the American people want change, but the million dollar question is, will they get it?

When I see an interview late last week of Karl Rove scoffing at a reporter about the anticipated losses, and he mutters, "You can look at your math, I'll look at THE math." It makes you wonder.

I'll be writing a lot more about stolen elections this week - I've done a lot of reading on the 2000 and 2004 elections recently, and what I've read is more than troubling.

It's also important to note that this isn't the first time this administration has manipulated events in Iraq to influence the outcome of an election.

As as reported in Media Matters, the LA Times reported on October 11, 2004, that the Bush administration planned to delay major assaults on insurgent strongholds in Iraq until after the 2004 U.S. presidential election, fearing large numbers of U.S. military casualties.

Recently, as Media Matters noted, on the October 24 broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, CBS News White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reported that a White House official told him, "[D]o not expect to see anything significant prior to Election Day" "as far as a significant change" in the Bush administration's Iraq policy and then quoted the official as saying: "You're not going to see anything before November 8th. It would be political suicide, and Karl Rove would never allow it."

You know, I didn't realize that Karl Rove was elected president. I totally despise him - he's the modern-day Rasputin.

It's awfully interesting, no it's tragic, that Bush has waited so long to change policy (or at least consider changing) in Iraq. This October has been the third deadliest month since the war began, and it doesn't look like it's going to get better.

Now, all of a sudden, Bush has convenient political amnesia ~ "What?!? Stay the course?!? Never said it!" I'll have more on the death of Stay the Course in a bit.