Gotta love it: Huffaker TOON on the love affair between the MSM and Shrub

[n2doc]

http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/{0B45E243-6F5D-4AA4-93AF-C2EB822FB0AB}.gif

Of course, having the Press in kneepads would be even more appropriate....

[IChing]

1. Oh That's Rich

Little

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. LOVE the Bush characterization

looks like he should be singing "how dry I am...."

And the Rove is hysterical too.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/2880185

[MrModerate]

3. Years ago, pols and journos could attend this thing . . .

Without it appearing that one owned the other. It was good fun -- a little mutual roasting, some a laughs, a little seltzer down your pants . . .

No more. Perhaps because -- owing to the consolidation of the media into fewer and fewer hands -- one *does* own the other (or at least answers to the same puppetmasters).

Last year, Stephen Colbert ripped the scab off a wound that had been festering for some time. This year, in reaction to the discomfort he caused, the event's smarmy chumminess was vomitous in the extreme.

The Times has made the right choice. This one needs to fade away, at least until the journos figure out where they left their integrity (but I'm not holding my breath).

[phoebe]

4. the Times is full of you know what... another mea culpa that has no meaning

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