Opening The Files: 10/05/06
I guess I might as well get use to doing two or more OTF's a week. Because I have a feeling a lot will be happening between now and election day that will garner some great commentary. Anyway, on to the Intertubes!
ExFoleyation
Foleygate continues to dominate the headlines. Which some might call a travesty considering there is so much more going on. Iraq, which is quickly deteriorating, has all but fallen off the radar. But then nothing spells ratings like a tawdry sex scandal.
The GOP are desperate to scrub (get it?) themselves clean of the matter. FOX News seemed happy to oblige, labeling Foley as a Democrat. The Associate Press went a step further, attaching the (D) to both Foley and Hastert. Course I'm sure it was just an honest mistake. Heck, blame it on the keyboard makers. R and D are pretty close to each other.
Now you had to know Keith would have something to say about FOX News' relabel libel. And speaking of Keith, Jeff Cohen wonders if he might be on thin ice.
Fubar has the alternate targets for the GOP blame game.
AJ feels guilty about writing a post on Bob Woodward's book during Foleygate. He shouldn't though. Someone has to.
William Pitt is curious: of all the things the Repubs should be sweating over, a sex scandal is what has them perspiring? What do you expect from the same folks who obsessed over Bill Clinton's phallus? And as Ellen Goodman says "I wouldn't have chosen to play on this field, but I will take it."
Sen. Russ Feingold points out the truly outrageous scandal.
And finally, Nance Gregg has the Five Stages of (GOP) Death.
ExFoleyation
Foleygate continues to dominate the headlines. Which some might call a travesty considering there is so much more going on. Iraq, which is quickly deteriorating, has all but fallen off the radar. But then nothing spells ratings like a tawdry sex scandal.
The GOP are desperate to scrub (get it?) themselves clean of the matter. FOX News seemed happy to oblige, labeling Foley as a Democrat. The Associate Press went a step further, attaching the (D) to both Foley and Hastert. Course I'm sure it was just an honest mistake. Heck, blame it on the keyboard makers. R and D are pretty close to each other.
Now you had to know Keith would have something to say about FOX News' relabel libel. And speaking of Keith, Jeff Cohen wonders if he might be on thin ice.
Fubar has the alternate targets for the GOP blame game.
AJ feels guilty about writing a post on Bob Woodward's book during Foleygate. He shouldn't though. Someone has to.
William Pitt is curious: of all the things the Repubs should be sweating over, a sex scandal is what has them perspiring? What do you expect from the same folks who obsessed over Bill Clinton's phallus? And as Ellen Goodman says "I wouldn't have chosen to play on this field, but I will take it."
Sen. Russ Feingold points out the truly outrageous scandal.
And finally, Nance Gregg has the Five Stages of (GOP) Death.
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