Billiken Man

The shocks just keep on coming: Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic field with 51 percent of the vote. She beats Barack Obama by 24 percentage points among black Democrats. She is projected now to beat Giuliani – or at the very least to be in a statistical dead heat with him in the general election. This wasn’t supposed to happen. . . .

This message from the New York Times was in my mail bright and early this lovely morning. I was sipping my coffee and reading along and doing OK until I got to the part that says, "She is projected now to beat Giuliani – or at the very least to be in a statistical dead heat with him in the general election."   HUH? WTF?

What in the hell is going on here? After 7 years of inyourface Republican corruption, criminality, and incompetence, could it be that half the voters in America would really vote for any Republican? And that Republican would be Bernard Kerik's business partner, 3 times divorced, cross dressing, friend of gays, 9-11 9-11 9-11 Rudy Giuliani? You're telling me that Rudy has a batch of fans in Gravette, Arkansas?

It would be my thinking that ANY Democrat will bury the Republican nominee like Nixon buried McGovern in '72. I'd have to think if the election was held right now and every hour from now to January, 2009, that Hillary would swamp Giuliani like the waters of Katrina washing over the Gulf Coast.

To believe that Giuliani is neck and neck with Hillary you'd have to believe America is stupid. And lordy...there's plenty of proof that could indeed be true. But I think we need to consider another reason this kind of article would show up on the front page of today's New York Times.

Incompetency! Could it be that the 4th Estate has no more idea of what they're doing than George W. Bush does?  How else can one explain how the press missed years of Gingrich & DeLay corruption?  How else to explain the press missing the mountain of lies that led us to attack Iraq in 2003? How did they miss Mark Foley or Craig's bathroom toe-tapping? How did they miss the Justice Department being turned into a tool of the RNC?

The press used to be pretty damn good at uncovering election fraud. Finally they did, proving that Gore won in 2000 and there was tons of funny business again in 2004. If Bush was elected illegally....why isn't the press demanding his removal each and every day?

We're told Bush polls at a 23% approval rating this week. Congress is at 11%, Cheney at 9%. Where are the polls telling us of the national media's approval rating?  Looks to me that the 4th Estate is in 4th place, behind the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, on the List of Things That Suck.

The White House comes up with a criminal act, Congress plays dead, the Supreme Court approves it and the press chases after Britney Spears. No wonder we're sailing to hell as a country. No wonder we don't know what the hell is going on or what to do about it. The American people have no allies as we're lied to, cheated, stripped of our liberties, taxed to death for endless war and given false, lazy information by incompetent journalist, most of which are either on the take or following the orders of their Republican fascist bosses.

From here on out....we're on our own. Take your Bible, and make it the big one on the coffee table, and beat your head with it until your own brain starts working again. Cleanse your mind of all the shit that's been stuffed in it the last 20 years and THINK for yourselves. You live in a rare moment when everyone is smarter than our President, so the time to THINK rings around these bastards is at hand. Save yourselves America....there is no one out there to help this time around. If we want saved...we're going to have to save ourselves.