February 24, 2008



IMPEACH BUSH



IMPEACH CHENEY


LEARN YOUR CLICHES


I was thinking about the great movie "Bull Durham." Veteran catcher Crash Davis is charged with preparing a rookie pitching sensation for "the Show" in the major leagues. Crash advises the young pitcher to "learn your cliches." It seems to me that right-wingers adopt that same philosophy. Any time negative information emerges about Republicans we can expect the old canard about the "liberal media."


That cliche was on display this week from the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh claimed that a story such as the one about McCain's meetings with a female lobbyist would never be published about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. It seems to me The Times published all kinds of stories about the non-existent Whitewater scandal and that Monica dominated the media almost 24/7 in the late 1990's. The media are only believable, in right-wing land, when they furnish ammunition against politicians who aren't to the right of Mussolini.