Irony Alert: Chicago Tribune lacks the luxury to be amused

Hoping no one heard about the bankruptcy news, the Tribune  is snarking at the Obama virulent opponents

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which it willfully misidentifies as

Those who spent most of the 1990s seething that Bill and Hillary Clinton were serial murderers and who devoted the entire 2008 campaign cycle to painting Obama as a mysterious radical aren’t relaxing during the transition.

You know how I know it’s not the same  people? Simple. If it were, the Tribune would join the pack today, like it did during the 1990s. They would spearhead the birth certificate stories just as they had reporters dispatched in Arkansas looking for dirt -  photos if possible – on Bill Clinton.

I think this is a shrewd attempt from a publication on its way out to revive the “liberal media” chestnut and try to paint itself as such, as this year, this may be ‘in”

So – let me correct that paragraph:

Those who spent most of the 1990s seething that Bill and Hillary Clinton were serial murderers, have been the cheerleaders for Obama in this election cycle, continuing the seething throughout the primaries and beyond

A nice feat of bait and switch – but some of us still keep track of events as they actually occurred.

The rest of the article is devoted to the birth certificate lawsuits – so, I’ll skip. The fun part – in the context, is the prediction

For four years, maybe eight, we’ll be hearing their shrill, tedious accusations, their daffy theories rooted in parsing and paranoia.

You may hear, but very likely in your new job, if not in the unemployment line.

The best part is the ending:

I wish we had the luxury to be amused.

I am glad you don’t. And the reason is, you’re going under. You know why?

because no one pays for  propaganda.

Update

And the filing for bankruptcy is a fact

Tribune Co., the owner of the Los Angeles Times, KTLA Channel 5 and dozens of other daily newspapers and television stations across the country, filed Monday for bankruptcy protection from creditors

Cindy vs Nancy

Update of July 30

I see on her website she already collected the signatures needed (with numbers to spare)

13, 323

So, donations for ads then.

original entry

Cindy Sheehan is almost done with the signature collection to get on the ballot (If you are in San Francisco, give a hand!) The deadline is August 8.

If you aren’t in her district, you can still contribute

Wouldn’t be nice if Nancy off the table Pelosi

would get to spend more time with her family?

This riddle courtesy of Times of india

Here it is, in context, page one (no photoshop, Bush really went for a jog with his victims!) Del

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bush should be tried as a war criminal after impeachment

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Daily Kos: Bush should be tried as a war criminal after impeachment says fo [dailykos.com] From the page: “Bush should be tried as a war criminal after impeachment says former Reagan official”

STEWART ON GOODLING

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The Raw Story | Stewart: Justice officials are taking [a crap] inside my he [rawstory.com] “On Thursday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart skewered many of the evasions in Monica Goodling’s Congressional testimony concerning the US attorney firings, ranging from her attempt to invoke the 5th Amendment despite having been given immunity to her seeming inability, despite being a lawyer herself, to say whether she had broken the law. “What am I supposed to be, some kind of law-knowing person?” mocked Stewart.”