Thursday Morning Open Thread

Wow. It's so easy to be a right winger and manipulate the media.

Republicans in Congress are feigning outrage over the non-story that Nancy Pelosi gets a plane to fly her to her home district. It's not a story. It wasn't a story when Dennis Hastert had his fat ass hauled around the country. But the press is eating it up like the little lapdogs they are. Imagine if the GOP showed as much outrage over real issues, like the mess that is the Iraq war or the fact that our troops in the war they started don't have the right equipment.

Then there's the non-story started by an anti-semitic, homophobic loudmouth about bloggers on the Edwards campaign. A spewer of hateful venom, like Donohue, just has to feed inanity to the media -- and AP decides it's newsworthy. AP's reporters should consider their sources. But that might take too much work.

All of this plays out against the backdrop of the Libby trial where we've heard testimony about how the big names in DC media knew that the Bush administration leaked the name of an undercover CIA operative -- while we are at war. Yet, they all dutifully reported the Bush team's denials -- even when Bush himself was the denier. The White House played them all for the fools that they are.

The right wingers must just sit back and laugh at how easy it is for them to manipulate the traditional media.

Okay. I need coffee now.