Howard Kurtz - Deficit Attention Syndrome - washingtonpost.com
“Over the course of his nearly quarter-century Senate career, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who hails from the tobacco-rich state of Kentucky, has received $419,025 from the tobacco industry, more than any other member of Congress, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that analyzes the influence of money on politics and policy.”
DP breaks it down: 24 years in Congress means that McConnel’s average annual bribes from the tobacco biz amounted to $17,459, about enough to buy a decent used Toyota Corolla these days. Senator Hussein Obama, over the course of his four year career in the Senate, received over $274,000 from labor unions for his Illinois Senate run in 2004 alone, according to the same Center for Responsive Politics. Leaving aside any possible further labor contributions to Obama during his four years in the Senate following this campaign, this means that over his 4-year Senate stint, he averaged at least $68,500 per year from labor union special interests.
Now, presumably, that 17 grand per year for McConnell is supposed to demonstrate that he is in Big Tobacco’s evil, tobacco-flake-filled pockets. What part of Big Labor’s clothing - or anatomy - do you think Obama’s 68 grand per year of bribes buried him in?
Howard Kurtz, the respectable Obama press-penis-puppet, isn’t interested in doing that research, or making such comparisons.
Moving right along:
But I have to add: Most major newspapers haven’t covered the Letterman/Palin imbroglio, and it does make me wonder whether there’s a different standard for Palin.
HoKey wonders, but he doesn’t look any further. Probably afraid of what he might find. [He knows exactly what he’d find. That’s why he doesn’t look - ed.]
Okay, okay, I was trying to be gracious. So let’s drop that silliness and just rip him up:
Was Tina Fey brutal? Then why did Palin agree to do a skit with her last fall?
Even HoKey isn’t this stupid. This rhetorical query is supposed to help him get around his knowledge that the exigencies of political campaigning dictated her appearance with Tina the Evil Bitch, no more, and no less. Here’s a rhetorical question for you, HoKey: Was Tina Fey brutal? Then why hasn’t Palin appeared in any skits with the loathsome bint since the end of the campaign? (via Glenn Reynolds).
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