News that parodies itself

As you can tell, I’ve been enjoying my guest stint here at La Shawn’s in part because it has given me a chance to flag some opinions that often lead to copious complaintage over at blogs4God.com. Especially when I poke fun at the hypocrisy of the main stream media. Of course, some times the MSM does the work for me … like today …

In the interest of love and tolerance the University of Connecticut chapter of Students Against Hate, lead by journalism and social welfare major Eric Knudsen, shouted-down Ann Coulter while she gave a speech on the UConn campus.

The WaPo is reporting that Saddam’s trial is proceeding as scheduled after a one day delay due to a Harry Ried-like boycott – because of an unjust trial. Gee, wonder where Hussein got that Ramsey Clark-ish idea? What’s next, a Howard Dean meme that Saddam was just minding his own business, that Bush should be on trial? Please refer to the larger/legible version on the magazine cover to the right for a ‘clearer picture.’

David Broder opines not so poetically about the good old days, like you know, when speaker Tom Foley was in charge during the House post office scandal and the gifts-for-trips improprieties in the early 1990s. Perhaps Mr. Broder is just grumpy because last night’s tax relief legislation didn’t include casinos, country clubs, hot tub facilities, liquor stores, massage parlors, golf courses, racetracks and tanning salons?

In a rail about "Truth for the Troops," Post writer Richard Cohen pushes the boundaries of his own credibility with hedging verbiage such as "Cheney was not strictly truthful" and "Cheney once again implied …" Of course the punch line for me was when Cohen capped his own speculative tirade of passion with "Cheney and others should avoid emotionally compelling, but intellectually fatuous, arguments …" And here I thought Broder was the pot calling the kettle black.

Anne Applebaum provides a redefinition of winning that only a Potomac River academe could love – and then blows her own point out of the water by using the Korean war as the basis of her argument. BTW, if you don’t get it, then you don’t get it.

"Shooting Is Defended But Gets Mixed Reviews" … real-world headlines like this save me the time of having to pen my own parodies.  UPDATE : Katie Couric wonders aloud if ‘air marshalls should shoot to kill.” (hat tip CCC)

Speaking of life being stranger than fiction – George Will writes of something I would have otherwise attributed to Scott Ott "The Senate has passed — and so has the House, with differences — an entitlement to digital television."

Need More? One word: ScrappleFace … well okay, that’s two words squished together, but you know what I mean …