Calculated Outrage:Cheney as toast: Democrats burning down the house.

[NVMojo]

There was a time when what's been called news judgment would deem some stories a five or six and run them on page 14, or deeper in the newscast. Back then the Senate minority leader wouldn't bother to look up from his desk. Not with this presidency. Every downside event--large, small, in between--plays above the fold on the front page now. And when Dick Cheney accidentally pops Harry Whittington, old Harry Reid jumps up from his Senate leader's desk faster than a Nevada jack rabbit to announce, one more time, that this "is part of the secretive nature of this administration."

Here are some of the political and media bonfires that have been lit on the White House lawn, stoked and reignited the past five years: the "stolen" 2000 election, Halliburton, "Fahrenheit 9/11," Cheney lives in an "undisclosed location," Abu Ghraib, torture at Guantanamo, Bush lied about WMD, secret CIA prison sites, Valerie Plame, the neocons, Rumsfeld, Cheney's "secret" energy task force, Cindy Sheehan, Bush is destroying Social Security, Hurricane Katrina, Jack Abramoff, illegal wiretaps, Bill Frist's stock sales, what else?

Admittedly it's a partial list. This week alone wasn't half over before it had already dumped onto the public first the Cheney shooting scandal and then that George Bush made Katrina worse. This morning's papers may have more bad news.


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http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110007980

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1. blecch. wall street journal editorial page filth.

[NVMojo]

2. hmmmm, I found it fascinating ...what an insult to their boy Bush

[bemildred]

3. So, what? they aren't artless enough about attacking political opponents?

Like Rove doesn't "calculate" his moves?
What a pantload.
:rofl::rofl: