Tom Delay, the Bell Tolls for Thee!
I was sitting in my underwear Sunday reccuperating from my appenectomy and happened to have Fox News on wwhile I was doing homework. I guess I wanted something to take my mind of the pain.... Fox News functions with an elaborate system of rules, IF X THEN Y. For those watching the Fox News coverage of discrace of Texas congressman Tom Delay, you might have noticed some of these rules in action:
1.) IF you are forced to mention the ethics charges against Tom Delay THEN you must assert that tons of Democrats do the same thing and somehow get away with it (do not mention specifics or names)
2.) IF you mention the House Ethics committee THEN you must say the Democrats don't want Delay to be tried there, but only want him in the news (do not mention that the Democrats do want him tried there but the Republicans only will agree to do so if they purge the committee and change the rules)
3.) IF you mention any of the numerous charges against Delay THEN a anchor (not a pundit) must gnash his teeth about how the charges are politcally motivated by Democrats
4.) IF you mention any details of the charges against Delay THEN you must assert that this is really related to the Democrats being a minority party and wanting to put a wrench in the works of government since they have no ideas
5.) IF anyone mentions the three times last year Delay was chastized by the House Ethics committee THEN you must say on the air that this is not true. (Because techinically he was "admonished" not "chastized," but don't mention he was admonished)
You can then imagine how shocked I was this Sunday when Fox appeared to actually break new ethics charges against Delay without following any of the above rules. They were actually doing their journalistic job. This has to be the death knell for Delay. Fox News reported that Delay took a lenghtly trip to Britian which was charged to the credit card of a registered lobbyist. Oh yeah, the lobbyist happens to be at the center of a federal criminal investigation. This is a clear violation of House Ethics rules and Fox News pointed this out, without mentioning Democrats ONCE. Not only that, it is against House Ethics Rules to have overseas trips lasting more than 10 days, since it can cause the appearance of taking a paid vacation. It does not help Tom Delay that his 10 day+ trip was largely spent at the St. Andrew's Golf Resort.
It is time to stop pussy-footing around with these 'ethics violations' and call them by what they reall are, corruption. Hopefully, the fact that Fox News had decided to do their job concerning Delay signals that the rabid right is finnally coming to realize that having Old Man Corruption in their corner is more trouble than its worth. And that is good for America.
1.) IF you are forced to mention the ethics charges against Tom Delay THEN you must assert that tons of Democrats do the same thing and somehow get away with it (do not mention specifics or names)
2.) IF you mention the House Ethics committee THEN you must say the Democrats don't want Delay to be tried there, but only want him in the news (do not mention that the Democrats do want him tried there but the Republicans only will agree to do so if they purge the committee and change the rules)
3.) IF you mention any of the numerous charges against Delay THEN a anchor (not a pundit) must gnash his teeth about how the charges are politcally motivated by Democrats
4.) IF you mention any details of the charges against Delay THEN you must assert that this is really related to the Democrats being a minority party and wanting to put a wrench in the works of government since they have no ideas
5.) IF anyone mentions the three times last year Delay was chastized by the House Ethics committee THEN you must say on the air that this is not true. (Because techinically he was "admonished" not "chastized," but don't mention he was admonished)
You can then imagine how shocked I was this Sunday when Fox appeared to actually break new ethics charges against Delay without following any of the above rules. They were actually doing their journalistic job. This has to be the death knell for Delay. Fox News reported that Delay took a lenghtly trip to Britian which was charged to the credit card of a registered lobbyist. Oh yeah, the lobbyist happens to be at the center of a federal criminal investigation. This is a clear violation of House Ethics rules and Fox News pointed this out, without mentioning Democrats ONCE. Not only that, it is against House Ethics Rules to have overseas trips lasting more than 10 days, since it can cause the appearance of taking a paid vacation. It does not help Tom Delay that his 10 day+ trip was largely spent at the St. Andrew's Golf Resort.
It is time to stop pussy-footing around with these 'ethics violations' and call them by what they reall are, corruption. Hopefully, the fact that Fox News had decided to do their job concerning Delay signals that the rabid right is finnally coming to realize that having Old Man Corruption in their corner is more trouble than its worth. And that is good for America.
posted by Gentleman Loser at
9:28 AM
1 Comments:
Only the death of a Pope will take the spotlight off Tom Delay at this point. And they can't be that lucky.
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Chris, at 12:17 PM
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