media manipulation

Hillary reemploys "The Cry" on the eve on a hotly contested primary election.

Yep, it's official. Hillary Clinton is running to be Crybaby-in-Chief. According to the Tribune Co.'s politics blog, the Swamp, Clinton teared up after a heartfelt introduction by a former colleague at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, where she worked in college. The emotional speech led "Clinton's eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye," reads the report (so clinical). "Well, I said I would not tear up; already we're not exactly on the path," Clinton said immediately after. AHEM. Now, to be fair to Clinton, who after all is human no matter what people say, hearing a tearful tribute to you from a former mentor is exactly the kind of thing that would choke up nearly anybody. But it won't be lost on the press that she happened to cry just on the eve of an important primary vote, and that she happened to do so in a state where she has been losing her edge.

The blogosphere explodes.

Well, it's like I said. The Saddam Hussein verdict is the Republican last ditch effort to stem the Democratic surge. Previously I reported (on Oct. 16th) how, according to Guysen Israël News, the chief prosecutor in the Saddam Hussein trial has said that the verdict will be announced within three weeks. Yes...the CHIEF PROSECUTOR was announcing this, not the judge. Let that sink in a moment.

Now, according to Media Matters, the date for the verdict has been set...for November 5, two days before the US elections where the Iraq War is the number one issue.

Be prepared for another "Mission Accomplished" moment from George Bush, possibly flanked by the likes of DeWine, Santorum, Burns and all the other endangered Republicans. Will it work? I guess that depends on whether America remembers that it was al-Qaeda who attacked us, not Saddam Hussein, and that the only connection Saddam Hussein ever had with al-Qaeda was that they hated eachother and did their best to kill eachother.

Mr. Bush and Lap Dog Republicans: I don't give a RAT'S ASS for Saddam Hussein. I want to know where Osama bin Laden is and why you haven't caught him.