Drowning in Possibilities

That is my new view on the journalist cesspool. There are so very many possible stories to try and nail Bush, its hard to know where to start. Today is a perfect case in point. The Vice President of the United States, shoots a old friend (probably in the back if your a journalist) and the press has a conniption. But not about the accident (wait, the friend is a lawyer, is it a accident? or just reflexes...), they go apoplectic because the White House let the ranch where they were hunting release the news, and said ranch did, to the local press. Oh, not to be done! What a snub in the face of the most important agency in the world! What disrespect for the very mouthpiece of all truth! Great shame spreads across the land...

Anyhow, there is much for a reporter to try out in the news. Bash Bush here, slam the troops there, spread visions of doom and gloom wherever possible. Yet it seems to not catch hold in the modern marketplace on a pervasive and dominant scale as it use to. Why aren't all Americans slathering at the mouth over the evil Empire Bush has created? Journalists everywhere are groping, consumed with that question. So we learn last week that Libby was authorized to reveal information in the NIE (National Inteligence Estimate) by his boss, who happens to be the shooter from above, much to the concern of those who got no presents for Fitzmas. If the train of events has left your memory (as any circus act is likely to), you can refresh yourself of the fun we have had on topic with this discussion of the leaks. Of course there is the whole Rove saga, and I have waxed eloquent, just search for it. Today, however, is media fun, with a little liberal snarky email for good measure:

So…..
The VP TOLD Libby to leak Plame's name!
I am shocked and dismayed…
I say, shocked and dismayed……

Now this had a tag line about reminding me of Casablanca, but that is a stretch as the line from Captain Renault reads something like "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" I didn't laugh, but its not the first time someone has quoted lines from that movie that don't exist ("Play it again, Sam"). Yes, like a broken record, or Sam playing it again, the left has rounded up the usual suspects and attributed dark conspiracy to Cheney. It's funny in a deep, satisfying way, not the cheap laughter from a can this. A bit of debunking can be had from NewsBusters, but what is really relevant here revolves around the central core of the cesspool, and how deaf, dumb, and blind the modern leftist crackpot journalist is. The reason it's circulating as it does indicates someone has pulled the plug from the drain hole. But with that much talent, it could be a while before it drains. And, as we can see, the story didn't catch, move on to the next hit piece before you drown or get sucked out the drain...