ACORN
This ACORN stuff is absolutely hilarious, if it weren't for our President's close ties. The couple on the left posed as a pimp and his prostitute. She's believable. But him? Come on. When did Doogie Howser rip off the set of Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? I'm shocked the ACORN people fell for such an obvious ruse. The video at this link is pretty entertaining. What's even funnier: It's an organization dedicated to voter turnout (read: dedicated to getting more entitlement-recipients to the polls). Are they branching out?
No Scoop
The WSJ points out that off-beat journalists have been out-scooping the MSM repeatedly. Just a bad string of luck? Hardly, the MSM doesn't want to report anything that sullies the Anointed One.
It's difficult to imagine that a Republican administration could employ an exponent of a crackpot conspiracy theory, "partner" with an apparently corrupt organization, or attempt to politicize an agency like the NEA without the mainstream media treating it as a major scandal. But with Obama in the White House? A quote attributed to the fired Washington Acorn employees sums things up nicely. The AP reported that they had advised Giles and O'Keefe that they "must be low-key about the business, or people could 'call Fox' "--not the New York Times, or CBS or NBC, or "the media," but Fox.
To be sure, Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart are advocacy journalists with distinct points of view. But the supposedly impartial mainstream media also claim to have an "adversary" relationship with the government. That they have left this field to a few upstarts suggests that they have a point of view, too--one that is, in the age of Obama, far more compliant than adversarial.
Shower with Bleach
Great, just one more thing to worry about: showerheads have lots of germs. "The scientists analyzed 50-some showerheads from nine cities, including Denver. After removing the showerheads from their piping, and rubbing swabs along the insides, the DNA results showed that about 30 percent of the showerheads harbored significant levels of Mycobacterium avium, a relative of the organism that causes tuberculosis. M.avium is a pathogen that is linked to pulmonary disease and most often infects people with compromised immune systems. It can occasionally infect healthy people, too, according to CU-Boulder professor Norman Pace, who lead the study."
