Oregon Magazine

July 09, 2002, all the major networks -- The sight of Barney Frank grilling a corporate executive about why he didn't know every detail of what was going on in one of the largest companies in the world? Ludicrous. Barney Frank didn't know his boyfriend was running a homosexual house of prostitution in Frank's own basement! The idea of Dick Gephart criticizing the operational procedures of Enron as a financial scam? Titanic hypocrisy from a leader of the party that created the only bank in history that cashed checks on accounts without requiring deposits! Do you recall the House bank? Do you recall who brought it down? It wasn't Dick Gephart. He was shocked when Newt pointed out the problem existed!

Tom Daschle unhappy with corporate money mazes? This from a man who wants to pour more billions in I.O.U.s into Social Security, the world's largest Ponzi scheme? Maxine Waters complaining about "cowboy capitalism?" This from a longtime supporter of Jesse "James" Jackson, who has for decades robbed American corporations by threatening them with false charges of racism?

Jim Lehrer laying blame for WorldCom and Enron at the feet of George Bush -- completely unaware that both companies existed long before he moved to the White House? Two parts stupidity and one part biased rationalization. All this was going on years before Bush announced he would run for the presidency. The fact that it is coming to light since he won the presidency is an indication that after he took office the bad guys Clinton had been in bed with finally reached the end of their rope. It means Janet Reno can no longer suppress evidence of corruption, and John Ashcroft is a beaut of an honest cop.

Ah, the liberal arm of the Fourth Estate.

Clinton was a good guy for encouraging Moslem terrorists to drag dead marines behind African jeeps. Bush is a bad guy for bringing down the Taliban government of Afghanistan that used to publicly execute women for adultery. Clinton's aim was so bad he blew up Sudanese aspirin factories. Bush's aim was so good he dropped daisycutters within six meters of the intended target from five miles in the sky.

Clinton's campaign funds were so dirty that they had to be delivered to the back door of the White House in canvas bags full of sequentially numbered money orders with the names of dead people as signatories. Bush's campaign funds were so clean that every contributor was listed on a website within days of making the donation. Clinton's donors were often citizens of foreign nations. Bush's donors were all citizens of America. Clinton slaughtered women and children in Waco, Texas and sent children back to Cuban slavery. Bush freed the women and children of Afghanistan, giving them freedom and new hope.

But, in the upsidedowncake world of the mainstream press all good ended and all bad began with the inauguration of Bush? Bias there is, friends, but no mainstream media conspiracy. Nobody as moronic as America's mainstream media could organize a conspiracy.

They are all actually that stupid. Lehrer, Jennings, Rather, Brokaw, and all their subordinate compatriots from Terry Moran to Eleanor Clift. They are all actually that stupid.