How Liberal is my Media

So, we've had almost no coverage of the many often massive antiwar protests over the last six years and yet now some nonsense about tea parties is getting tons of airtime with FOX practically sponsoring the events.

And still, I can't see much more than a few hundred people at any of the b-roll footage. I've been to bigger protests to keep the Friends spin off Joey on the air. Maybe, the real lesson could be that every good protest should be a double entendre.

Here's my quote of the day from one such tea party: "Government -- to be honest with you, and this will probably be misquoted, but on 9/11, I think they hit the wrong building. They should have gone into the Capitol building, hit out, knocked out both sides of the aisle, we'd start from scratch, we'd be better off today."

(quote from salon.com article by Mike Madden)

Spice Up That Baby

A headline from today's Orlando News reads:

Man Pepper Sprays Infant Son In Face
Police: Never Seen Anything Like It

I guess that they've never heard of this police action and read this quote about it in the Press Statement released by the Portland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild:

It was clear to me that the police could see that there were young children in strollers within the crowd, yet the police ignored that fact and continued to spray pepper spray indiscriminately so that the spray hit the children and their mothers.

Maybe, the subtitle of the Orlando News article should be - Police: Never Seen Anyone But Other Police Do It