Friday, February 15, 2008

Junk Journalism

The blogosphere has a habit of complaining about how slanted, corrupt and biased the traditional media is; how they print stories that pursue an agenda but which have no real content; how they provide things as if they were facts but provide no real evidence.

The blogosphere would never, of course, do such a thing.

Well, read the Huffington Post once in a while, and articles like The Serpent in the Land of Lincoln.
This source was someone I know to have informational tentacles into the darkest reaches of the state's power apparatus, down numerous levels of venality into the basest depths of the state's smoke-filled rooms where the most brazen public-till fleecing schemes and scams are hatched and executed, where no-bid pockets are lined, favors granted for favors, revenge plotted and…

Anyway, I digress. In other words, he was great source.

Now that we have so accurately documented the bona fides of the source,
Put it this way: Antoin "Tony" Rezko will make MacDougal look like what he was, a small-town criminal chump. And Barak Obama's problems with this man could make Whitewater look like what it was, a low-level scam puffed up for right-wing prosecutorial purposes.
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Given how business is conducted in Springpatch, and given the recent-ness of our Democratic front-runner's residence down there, and his clear and provable links to one of Illinois' latest indictment-worthy political rogues -- including involving the financing of his own house (oh yikes!) and even -- according to this source -- some distant connection to Michelle Obama's hospital work…

That’s it, folks. You now have it straight from the blog that not only should we not elect Barak Obama, we should see to it that he is thrown in jail. Thank heaven we don’t have to rely on the traditional media to do all this in-depth investigative research to protect America.

I’ll grant you that, while it occasionally provides a good article, the Huffington Post with all of its flashing yellow backgrounds can hardly be considered a serious blog site, but still…

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