So the arrival of some new soccer player was splashed across the front page of the L.A. Times today, just beneath the fold, but Harriet Miers openly defying a subpoena to appear before Congress was buried on the last page.
And we wonder how George Bush has managed to get away with so much malfeasance for so long. The mainstream news media have been utterly complicit in our long national nightmare, refusing to cover Mr. Bush's many transgressions because, hey, Paris Hilton gets better ratings, and besides, most people can't follow all that other stuff anyway. It's too complicated.
Democrats have been taking a flogging in the blogosphere, almost since taking control of Congress in January, because they haven't been howling loud enough about the many misdeeds of our incompetent-in-chief. I have a theory about this: I think the Dems have been howling, loud and clear --it's the media that have failed us, because they have steadfastly refused to report it.
It's the old "tree falling in the forest" thing: If Harry Reid says Bush is a miscreant, a liar and a reprobate, and nobody prints it or plays the footage on the nightly news, did he really say it?
Anyway, back to Harriet Miers. How could she just not show up? Worse, how could Bush be so brazen as to tell her to not show up? George Bush just mooned the Congress of the United States. At some point even his Republican lackeys on Capitol Hill are going to get the message that this guy is not only criminally incompetent, but dangerous as well. I look forward to the day Miers is frog-walked into a waiting police cruiser for showing so much contempt for what used to be a co-equal branch of government.
Meanwhile, here in Los Angeles, the county sheriff is in hot water for supposedly offering "special treatment" to the nation's most famous outlaw, Paris Hilton. Seems she was given a cordless phone to use (so as to not have to wait in line for the pay phone) and a brand-new orange jumpsuit (so as to not have to soil her body with previously-worn garments).
Now I like to poke fun at Ms. Hilton as much as the next guy, and I guess the phone thing does stink, at least a little, of "special treatment." But the jumpsuit? Those things do wear out, don't they? I mean, eventually someone is going to get a new one, right? Isn't that why they have the new ones in the jail linen closet, to replace the worn out ones?
But then that's our corporate news media, manufacturing outrage where there is none, all the while ignoring the true outrage right under their noses.
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